You're still not 30?

I can't tell you how many times some of my friends and family have teased me that "You're still not 30 yet?" I laugh but turning 29 this year makes me think I need to enjoy this last year in my 20's as much as I can. Growing up, my family always deemed the days surrounding our birthday as our "Birthday Week." Celebrating your birthday over a whole week included special requests for dinner, special activities, and deciding where to go eat on your actual birthday for dinner. In honor of the start of my last year in my 20's, I did some celebrating all week. On Thursday, I was surprised at work by cupcakes and flowers and a trip out to lunch all courtesy of my awesome co-workers. Thursday evening, I was treated to dinner at Adobo Grill by Kristin & Tichiya. I took the day off on Friday to relax and get ready for the rest of the festivities planned for the weekend. On Friday, my parents treated me to a massage as part of my gift. Brad is the King of Early Gift giving, so he gave me my gift on Friday afternoon. I got a remote for my camera. So now I don't have to run into pictures after setting up the tripod! Hard to believe that I got my camera for my birthday last year. I didn't even know about remotes at that time and now I'm a total photog geek.

On Friday night, I had some work friends over to kick off the weekend in true birthday style.

On my actual birthday, I spent the day fielding birthday phone calls, texts, emails, and Facebook messages. I had a smile on my face all day.

Lots of great cards from friends & family. Brad would say that he always gets the best cards. His favorite are the ones that sing songs.

Not a bad way to start my 29th year...