the Graham Cracker House

As may or may not have been proclaimed from the mountain tops: I turned thirty this month!  Kind of a big deal.  I kept thinking of awesome ways to celebrate, but as it turns out, being 30 weeks pregnant and just being at home with my big and little boy were enough to make it grand.   We just packed the Saturday full of small treats like:

* Breakfast in Bed (small) from my favorite boys

*Kneaders french toast for Brunch

*taking Gabriel to library storytime as a family so he could meet Curious George. (when I found out about this Curious George one I knew he would love it.  When I realized it was on my birthday  I thought "What better way to make me happy then to see my 2 year old in happy heaven!). He did love seeing George and was only a wee squirmy

*pedicure with a good friend. We talked the whole time. It went by way too fast!

*pumpkin patch with my family

* home made dinner (my husband is amazing) with my favorite mashed potatoes.

*Redbox and Ben and Jerry's to finish up the night.   Nothing too spectacular.

I had planned to see a play at the Hale Center Theater for my birthday, but tickets were sold out for that night.  So my birthday present to myself was 2 tickets to Catch Me If You Can for October 25th.  We loved it!  Bjorn enjoys musicals so much when he is there.  I love sharing that with him.

What I really want to record here is some of the things I have accomplished in my 30 years on this year, and list some things I HOPE to accomplish in the next 30 years.

THINGS I HAVE DONE:

graduated college
got married
have 2 kids
worked as an RN at an amazing pediatric hospital.  I have done well and learned a lot here!  I am a clinical coach (meaning I precept and orient nursing students and new hires) and I am the "surgical clinical expanded role" (meaning I go to meetings and plan and present stuff to our staff and make sure everyone's up to date and help teach and do audits on everyones charting.... answer emails,  etc)
bought a house
bought a car (a few now)
Alaska Cruise
Disney Bahamas Cruise
attended all 4 Walt Disney World Parks in one day
several small road trips with my family of 3
brought my family to a professional conference at a fancy shmancy hotel (they played while I worked)
spent over 20 hours (total) on an airplane, with a toddler, while pregnant
learned to make homemade bread
received a professional pedicure, manicure, and a massage
mountain biked the pipeline trail in Millcreek
been to New York, LA, DC, Houston, Seattle, Boston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, San Diego, Indianapolis, Las Vegas
been to 35 states and 8 countries
visited 5 different zoos in America

THINGS I WANT TO DO:

become certified to teach yoga or Zumba
go on a mission to Arkansas and teach the restored gospel to the Dugger family :)
tour Italy
participate in ski to sea race 
attend a non-classical music concert (believe it or not I have NEVER been to a real concert)
make homemade cinnamon rolls
plan family reunions for MY future  generations/grandkids
live in a beach house
go to Mexico
give birth unmedicated (**ACCOMPLISHED with the birth of baby boy #2!)
prepare my sons for missions