My birthday

I had a great birthday this year. It happened to hit the day before we moved into our new house so it was a little chaotic (as was the week) but Adam and our families were still so nice to celebrate and make it fun.

Since we happened to still be living at Mom and Dad's, Mom put up decorations all around the dining room (as is Brown tradition) and this year I got two extra special decorations: two little baby dolls taped up in napkin cradles to represent my two little girls who get to spend all my days with me. Ah, mama, your creativity never ceases to amaze me.

I worked half a day and then Mom and Kelly took me to a movie ("Julie and Julia") which was so fun. I hardly ever go to movies anymore and on a week of so much stress this was the perfect distraction from real life. I walked out thinking, what are the things I'm supposed to be concerned about again? Love it.

Adam took me to dinner at my favorite place, Firehouse. I loved my foccacia bread and only made it about two bites into my meal before I was stuffed. There is just not room inside me for all of us anymore. That whole "eating for three" thing, what a joke! I'm barely eating for one half of me. We didn't even get a fh'zookie, what a bummer. But at least I got to take my leftovers home and enjoy them later. And it was great to enjoy a nice night out with my handsome husband, I sure love him.

Usually Adam and I set a price limit for birthdays or Christmas and then surprise each other with gifts. But I realized awhile ago there are things I really want but they're never things we have money for so maybe we should use something like birthday money toward that instead of other surprise things. So this year Adam bought me all these really nice large photo albums so that I can finally take all my pictures out of the tubs they've been storing in and put them in nice books. They've been in tubs ever since my scrapbook days, but lets be honest, who scrapbooks anymore? I finally reached a point where I realized I'd rather just have my pictures in a nice book and then I can actually look at them and enjoy them, since I'm never going to scrap or journal them. And nowadays all my pictures are digital and just go on the blog (which I'll print into blog books) so that changes things anyway. I'm so excited to work on this project-- and it's one I can do while sitting which is great for the pregnant me who finds herself needing to sit around a lot. It's okay if you want to laugh at me for being so excited about this. We're all geeks in some way, right?

Adam's family made us dinner the following Sunday. My cute sister-in-law, Aubry, bought me these beautiful bright flowers so that I can put them on the table in my new house and it will look cheery and colorful--isn't that great? Wow, I loved them.

Aubry and Jeanette (my mother in law) also made me this AWESOME cake which must've taken them forever. Look at all those details! Talent, I tell you, talent! They also bought me one of those full body pregnancy pillows--wow, sleeping will be heaven! I'm so excited.

So there it is. I'm twenty seven. I have a feeling this is going to be my best year yet.