Friday I turned 27 years old. Sometimes I can't believe I'm at this point in my life. I've been married for almost 3 year, out of college for 5 years, have my Master's and have been working as an OT for almost 3 years and just over a year ago started the journey to make an infertile person a mom. I look at my life and can't help but wonder...when did I get here?? It still feels like last year Todd and I celebrated my 21st birthday and here we are at 27!
Here's my birthday weekend re-cap:
Like any good 40+ hour a week worker, I took my birthday off..and Monday, just for good measure :) I tried my hardest to sleep in but that lasted until about 7:30 so I got up, ate some breakfast and went for a run. For some reason a good birthday run always feels good. Like every year I have to prove that I'm still going to be a runner this year and can still go the distance. I think birthdays are more of a "New Years" for me. Todd was SUPPOSED to take Friday off and we were going to go to Denver but he waited a little too long and got scheduled to fly. He was supposed to be home around noon. About 11:00 I decide to get in the shower so that I'm all ready to go when Todd gets home...except we have NO HOT WATER!! I call Todd. No answer. I call my dad. He says it could be the heating element if the water heater isn't leaking water everywhere. No water. I call Todd. No answer. I call Todd again. FINALLY! He answers! I tell him the bad news he says he'll be home in 20min (about 1pm) The plan at that point was to drive up to Spearfish to stay the night and have dinner in Deadwood at 6:30. At 1pm the driveway still needs to be shoveled, we have no hot water and we're an hour away from our destination. Todd's drives to the electric company to buy a new heating element for the water heater and I get stuck shoveling. Have I ever mentioned how much I HATE shoveling?? It truly is my least favorite chore with mowing in a close second. I think its because 1. I'm from Texas-we don't shovel snow and 2. 6 months of shoveling snow while Todd was deployed last year just made me bitter. Needless to say I was NOT happy about shoveling snow on my birthday. Around 4:00 the water heater is fixed but its going to be over an hour before we know if we have hot water so we drive to Spearfish with the plan to shower at the lodge we were staying at and then head to dinner, which we had to move the reservations back to 7:30 to accommodate our mishap. We stayed at Spearfish Canyon Lodge for the night...the same place we stayed for a weekend before Todd deployed when we went snowmobiling last year. Its a really cute place in the middle of Spearfish Canyon (our absolute favorite place in the Hills) complete with fireplaces in the room. Once we finally got cleaned up (6 hours after I wanted to shower) we made our way to historic Deadwood for dinner at Jake's at the Midnight Star-the casino/restaurant that Kevin Costner owns. It was DELICIOUS! I had a bacon wrapped shrimp, salad, fillet mingon with truffled mashed potatoes and creme brule for dessert! A-mazing! It was getting late by the time we finished dinner so we headed back to the lodge. I tried my hardest once again to sleep in on Saturday but that lasted until about 8:00 so we got up and went into Spearfish for some breakfast at the Vanilla Bean Bakery-a cute bakery on main street that just so happens to make gluten free muffins, scones, granola and cake. After a relaxing breakfast and loading the car with GF goodies to take home we headed to do our favorite winter activity-Cross country skiing!! It was absolutely perfect weather for XC skiing! We went for about 2 hours then headed home and ended the night at dinner with 17 of our closest friends.
Great birthday weekend. Here's to my 27th year!