the big 28.

I turned 28 yesterday. On one hand, I can't believe I'm that old. And on the other hand, I think . . "wow, I'm only 28."

Thank you for all of the fun packages, phone calls & messages yesterday. I appreciate it!

I had a great day. Wes pretty much gave me a break from all of my regular daily duties. No cleaning up. No dishes. I didn't feed Nate at all. Or put him down for a nap or bed. Or really do anything but play with him! It was a nice break from the regular stuff. Oh, and he got up with Nate while I proceeded to stay in bed for a while to read! A perfect birthday morning if you ask me.

The day consisted of a little shopping with my mom in the morning & lounging in the pool all afternoon with Wes & Sam. And then the entire family arrived at 4pm for swimming, Metro Pizza & an icecream cake. Our usual request! Sam's birthday was last week so we celebrated both of our birthday's last night with the fam. I've always loved having our birthdays so close. It's fun to celebrate with her and the entire family. I love that Abbie told me at least ten times - "happpyy biirthhhday auunnt liinnndssay." It was a big, drawn out, full of energy, happy birthday over-and-over and I loved it.

The kids enjoyed the play sink, the make-shift water slide & abbie and nate loved watering the flowers. Kyle was there to celebrate, too but I didn't get him on camera. {I didn't get many pictures due to my camera that is having some serious issues - so between Ali, Sam & I here's what we've got . . . }

I have to say that one of the highlights of the day was Wes figured out how to get Nate to swim by himself with the help of a swim vest and floaties! As soon as we put both on - he was good to go. He didn't have any balancing issues and literally swam around the pool over and over. He loved it! He kept saying, "Nate - self. Nate - self." Translation: I'm doing it all by myself. It will make swimming soooo much easier from now on!

Once it was bedtime, Wes took Nate home while Sam and I went to see My Sister's Keeper. I read the book and L O V E D it so I wanted to see the movie. I liked it. It was definitely a tear jerker at times but overall I thought it was pretty good. And it was nice to be at a movie! I

haven't been to a movie theater in months so it was a nice treat.