On Tuesday I turned 30! I'm not thinking about this too much because if I do I might start to feel old and really I'm not old I've really just begun to live!
On Monday I checked the mail to find two packages in the mail from my mom. This made me very happy and I was very excited to open them up the next morning. She got me exactly what I wanted a button jar (actually she sent me three.) She also included a variety of buttons from her own collection as well as ones from my grandma Joyce's and a promise to add some that she had from my grandma Helen. I can't wait to have my very own big jar of buttons that my nieces can play with anytime they come over. I loved playing with buttons when I was a child! Maybe I am getting old since a highlight in life is acquiring my own collection of buttons. The funny thing is I don't care and the prospect of it makes me very happy. I was telling my friend Kris at work about how excited I was to get this gift and she was so excited too we talked about how her grandma always had a button jar and that she has one now. Then the next day in my mailbox in the office Kris had left me a bag of buttons from her collection to add to mine. This was so sweet of her and I thought you know this is what life is all about finding pleasure in the simple things in life. Also, good friends who add to those simple pleasures by giving good gifts.
Darlene and Annette provided me with birthday cake at lunch. They are so sweet and made me feel so special. I love going to work each day because of the wonderful people who enrich my life with their personalities. I've learned so much from these women and I'm thankful I get to call them my friends.
When I got to work this is what I found - my sweet roommate had gotten to my room way too early in the morning and along with my friend Raegan had decorated. A while ago Tricia and I had been in a party store and saw these huge balloons. I commented that if I got those for my birthday I'd giggle like a little girl. These balloons made me happy all day every time I looked at them and they have continued making me happy because they're still floating in our kitchen. Now the secret is out to make me happy give me a bag of buttons and a helium balloon. I'm not to hard to please.
My plan for my 30th birthday was to head to the temple right after work, then have dinner at Texas Roadhouse with some friends, and then finish the evening with cake. Unfortunately, there was a forecast blizzard and the media had everyone in panic mode. I grew up where you weren't having fun until it had snowed 2 feet and was blowing. On Tuesday we didn't have any snow and the storm brought about 4 inches. It did blow pretty hard for a good three hours. Still it was a lot of hype and I had to settle for a night at home eating pizza, watching a BYU basketball game, and enjoying cake with friends.
This picture is really great because I had Liz, Gracee, and Emme, on the webcam watching and helping me blow out my candles. When it was all over the little girls were really sad that they didn't get to eat any cake. Liz said Emme woke up the next morning and was still really upset that she didn't get any. So in the future maybe showing them cake they don't get to eat isn't such a good idea.
Brett and Haley enjoying some cake.
I pulled out my camera a little too late and Kendall had already finished his cake but he was a good friend to take a picture with me anyway.
And of course I had to get a picture of my stellar balloons with Tricia!
And yes this is what the storm of the century brought to us. Funny because we are currently getting a lot of snow. Now if it would blow for a week we'd get a taste of a real blizzard!
It was a wonderful day and I was reminded once again that I have some pretty wonderful friends that make my life very fun. Thank you to every one who remembered me on my "special day" and made feel like the most loved person in the world!
Happy late birthday!
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