I woke up this morning and I was 28 years old. How did that happen? Weird. But my family made it a fantastic day. Lincoln came in to my room bright and early and surprised me by tossing some confetti at me and blowing is party blower. He was so excited about his surprise and his thoughtfulness that I just had to smile. Actually, I think my kids were more excited about my birthday than I was, and that’s sayin’ something, because I get pretty stoked about my birthday.
Aaron asked me what I wanted for breakfast, and I told him that it might sound silly, but that what I would like most in the whole wide world for breakfast was a smoothie. I love breakfast food, but I don’t like to eat it in the morning, it’s too heavy and makes my tummy hurt…but a smoothie, now that is pure heaven in a glass. So Aaron took a couple of the kids, and went to the store for smoothie ingredients. He made me a perfect Nutella and granola breakfast smoothie.
I opened presents from my kids. Lincoln said he thought about getting me a cactus, but decided to get me a garden shovel instead. :) Ivan gave me a sprayer nozzle for the hose, so that I’ll have an easier time watering the garden. Del gave me some glass dessert bowls and Ollie gave me a meat thermometer. I love that they choose out things for me, and that they are so excited to give them to me. It makes me happy.
In the afternoon Aaron’s parents came over and watched our kids so that Aaron and I could spend the afternoon and evening together with no kids. I am very grateful to them for being willing to do that. It was SO NICE to have Aaron all to myself. I couldn’t have asked for a better birthday present.
As you are probably already aware, I have been a little bit obsessed with the Dressing Your Truth program for the last little while. I took the course, and learned the five fashion elements for my Type, and I have am in the middle of taking the 30 day challenge, which is to dress your truth for 30 days. I already have a lot of things in my closet that match my Type, and I have created more by experimenting with dying clothes. But for my birthday I wanted to go shopping. So Aaron’s parents, and my parents, and Aaron all gave me money for that purpose. And Aaron willingly became my fashion consultant for the afternoon. :) I was surprised, and super excited about how easy having my Dressing Your Truth color card made my shopping experience. It was really cool to be able to walk into a store and know at a glance which clothes I should wear and which ones I shouldn’t. And it was even cooler to feel confident about the clothes I tried on, and to know that the things I chose to buy were going to coordinate with all the other clothes I’ll be wearing. It makes getting dressed so much nicer. Really.
Aaron and I went to the Sketchers Outlet store in Orem first, because I wanted some new shoes. I found the most awesome ones! They look a little bit like TOMS, but seem more sturdy. And they are super comfy, like walking on a cloud. I told Aaron they felt like a party on my feet. :)
Then we headed up to Lehi, to the Dressing Your Truth store. It was fun to give Aaron a visual of all the things I’ve been telling him about the different Types. The store is separated into four sections, one for each type. So it’s really easy to see the differences in the Types. We looked around, and I tried on some things, and picked out a rust orange lacey shirt, with a red cardigan to go on top. Aaron picked out a pair of earrings and a necklace that he liked to go with. It’ll make me happy every time I wear the jewelry, because I’ll know that Aaron picked it out. That’s way better than him just liking something I picked out.
After Dressing Your Truth, we stopped to put air in the tires of the van, and I changed into my new stuff. I couldn’t wait. :) Then we went to Gordmans. Neither of us had every been there before. It’s sort of like Ross, only bigger, and organized more like a department store. We found a cute ruffley orange and gold top, that will look really nice under one of my brown sweaters. Then we headed over to Kohls. They had an awesome sale going on, and I found a great casual green shirt with 3/4 sleeves.
We met up with my mom and Kerry, who came down to take me out to dinner for my birthday. We went to my all-time favorite restaurant, Texas Road house. Delicious. Perfection. Steak. Mmmmmm.
Mom and Kerry came back home with us, and they and Aaron’s parents have cake and ice cream with us and the kids. Of course we had a homemade Lion House German Chocolate Cake. What else would we have on my birthday? We paired it with BYU Creamery ice cream. So satisfying. Can you tell I’m a food person? All of my best holidays have foods to go with them. Haha! Just like Thanksgiving and Christmas are not complete without homemade rolls, and Valentines would be a flop without Black Forrest Cherry Cake; my birthday just wouldn’t be my birthday if there wasn’t German chocolate cake. :)
Anyways, it was a wonderful day. I feel like the luckiest girl in the world. I have such amazing family and friends, and I’m grateful for everyone who helped make the big 2-8 a huge success.
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