Happy Birthday to me!!! It was last Thursday (the 30th , if anyone wants to write it down), so I'm a little slow at updating, but I just had a weekend of festivities! I had to wait to get it all in. The first celebration was actually 10 days before my birthday, when my dear friend Rachel offered to take me to see "Phantom," (not to be confused with Phantom of The Opera, that's a whole other awesomeness that I will take Rachel to, if it ever comes back!), it was soo much fun. Then my other dear friend, Kim took me on my birthday to get a pedicure, which I haven't done in a couple years! I knew I wanted green on my toes, it's my favorite color! But I wasn't sure how I wanted it, until I saw the girl's toes that works there. I figured, if I just wanted one color, I could do that myself at home. But it's not very often I get to have a highly-skilled, short, no English-speaking, Vietnamese woman with a steady hand make a master piece on my delicate toes!! Love them!
Rachel also made me cupcakes for my b-day, so I told Mckay he was off the hook to make or buy me a birthday cake, (I didn't want to make my own, like usual). We also had planned to go out together, just McKay and I to go get a really nice pair of jeans for me, it's all I wanted. So, back to creating the evening birthday scene: No presents, well, not ones to unwrap (the ones I got from J. and M. were already opened), no big fantastic cake, and certainly no decorations. This is what prompted Morgan to come in from playing with friends all excited and after surveying the surroundings and how completely ordinary it was, she said, " I quit!" Mckay says, "Quit what?", Morgan replies, "This party, it's dumb! There's no presents, no cake and we're just having dinner like usual, " That's when I piped up and said, "Not Exactly like usual. . .dad's making dinner!" Needless to say, my birthday was apparently a big disappointment to Morgan. However, this lovely bouquet of dandelions you see before you are one of my favorite presents. This is how you know you're a mom. Bouquets of weeds that your children are overly thrilled with and they give them to you hoping you will love them just as much. They died by dinner-time. The flowers that is. . .
Then on Friday my friend Kim had all our posse over to her house to celebrate with some cake and ice-cream. It was divine (thanks Marrya!). And the company? Forget about it! It's always a good time. I also came away with a subscription to Real Simple magazine-LOVE IT!!! Thank you girls!!! Saturday was a good day with McKay, and Rhyan. We couldn't leave her behind not knowing how long we would be gone. Plus that's just more money to fork out to the babysitter. . .where are those grandmas when you need them? Anyway, the trip was a success. I didn't fall in love with some fantastic designer pair of jeans, however, I did manage to find pretty awesome jeans, two of them no less for only $53!!!!!! That's the total. One pair were on clearance at Down East for only $7!!! That's right, I'm amazing at bargain shopping, I decided. Plus, it was nice to spend some time with McKay without the other ladies of his life trying to get all the attention!! And as a birthday bonus, as an answer to every question that was thrown at me that day, I got to say, "because it's my birthday!"
Which leads me to the title of this post, "It's Only 2 Years Now," meaning until I turn 30! Where has the time gone? I remember when I turned 20 thinking the 30's were so far away still . . . at least 10 years, right?! Didn't I just turn 20 like 3 years ago? Now I have some friends in their 30's and I'm only 2 years away! That's for real! Life goes by quicker and quicker every year! The sad part is, I always wanted to be the woman who looked forward to being older and wiser and a little more sure of myself, growing older with grace and dignity. . .PAH! We'll see. . .
And here's the guys. . .seriously? I know you can't see their faces, but this is the most honest picture. There's Chad, Sam, Dillon, Damon,Troy, Matt, and driving this crazy train, we have McKay.
Meanwhile. . .
Our kids were fighting to see who got to drive this John Deere next. Apparently Morgan was monopolizing the said tractor. But she admitted it. In the back:Devon, Elle, Emmie's legs (she wouldn't look up-too focused!), and Kimberly. Middle:Carson and Reagan. Front: Morgan and Darby. That wasn't all the kids, (there were 17-counting the babies)these were just the ones who weren't scared off when I came out with my camera. 
