My Favorite Gifts

Could either of these 2 be any cuter?

My 28th Birthday

I'm 28 today, which seems crazy because I JUST turned 27 last year. :) Seriously, I can remember my 25th birthday party like it was last week. 28 is a bit strange to me. I keep hearing that line to John Mayer's "Stop This Train" that says:
So scared of getting older.
I'm only good at being young, so I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun....
Stop this train.
I want to get off and go home again.
I can't take the speed it's moving in
I know I can't But honestly won't someone stop this train

I am still young, I know...but time, it just goes by too quickly these days. I get sentimental about it. It's an odd time right now in life. Lots of changes. Sometimes I think back to a certain point in time and think, "I wish it was like THAT again," but I'm sure it wasn't perfect then either. All we really have is now, and for that, I'm thankful.

I had a fun day. Travis had to work the Auburn game today, so I really didn't see him at all. He did wake us all up at about midnight trying to make me homemade chocolate covered peanuts, but he burned...um NUKED, the chocolate. It was nauseating. I did not see the sentiment in it at the time. But my mom is in town, so we decided to go BACK to Birmingham today to see if I could find some stuff for my birthday.

We were there on Thursday when she flew in, but can you believe I couldn't find ONE thing for myself? What did I buy? Things for my kids. Maybe I AM getting older because I certainly didn't used to have a problem picking things for myself. We were much more successful today. Maybe it just needed to be my actual birthday. We left Birmingham at about 5 and drove back to Anniston for a wonderful dinner at Fuji. It had been a while since I had eaten at the place that used to be the SOLE restaurant I'd eat at in this town. (Thankful I've enlarged my once rigid eating territories) It was really good too, and MOM actually liked it, which was shocking. Then we came home, sang happy birthday, ate cake and put the kids to bed! Been catching up on the blog ever since. I'm very grateful for another year and look forward to a hundred more. :)

The babes and me before we left for Birmingham
Sage in rare form :)
We took a break from shopping to ride the carousel in the mall. My kids love this. Jaggar screams when it's over and reaches to get back on. That's always fun.


I try not to miss photo opportunities ;)
I sat Jaggar on a horse closer to mom before we got off, but he still was in more awe of other things than the camera.
After dinner, at home ready to sing happy birthday. I love the kids' faces in these next few.


If you've ever talked to me much, you may hear me mention Dave Ramsey. I really love him and have started following him a lot the past few months. Travis got me several of his books.
That shirt box....well...ask me about it sometime. ;) And if you are on fb and told me happy birthday, thank you SO, so much! I had well over 100 well wishes, and each one made me feel so special! I've felt very loved on this day!

Boo at the Zoo Louisville Style

Sage had fall break from October 11th-15th, so the kids and I went to Louisville and spent that week at my parents' house. The weather was exceptionally warm. One of the things that I wanted to do while we were there was to take the kids trick or treating at the Louisville zoo. I had either blocked out or had forgotten how CROWDED it was, but we still had a great time. Jaggar was hilarious walking around (when I dared to let him. He will walk away and never look back!), and he reminded me of E.T. the way he wobbled in his costume. I've meant to upload these pics for quite some time, but it's better late than never, right?

The entrance of the zooMy Snow White and dragon

Jaggar kicked one of those pumpkins and sent it rolling shortly after this was taken. Shocking.

LOVE this. Jaggar loved the lit up pumpkins.

Her favorite thing in the world: CANDY
Us with Batgirl. You will see that Jaggar can only stare at the characters, all girls of course, if we are near them.

Hay maze

Following...

the yellow brick road to...

the Wizard of Oz cast.

We all live in a yellow submarine.

This is blurry, but this snow leopard was stalking back and forth when we walked by.

Alice

Sage and Nonni with the Cheshire Cat. Sage loves Alice in Wonderland.

I love Jaggar in this picture.

Candyland

Snow White and Snow White

And then we found the actual princesses. I actually used to go to church in Louisville with Sleeping Beauty here. I heard, 'Hi, Julie," and glanced to see if I had something with my name on it (yeah...I did) before realizing it was Cheryl.

And right at the end they have a RUDOLPH display. You all know how we feel about Rudolph.

What an awesome night we had!!

Full Moon Farm Field Trip

Hey hey! Look who is back to blogging. Guess I just needed a little motivation! Today is my birthday. I am 28 years young, and I've had a great day. More on that in another post. These pictures were taken 2 weeks ago when Sage's school went to Full Moon Farm, a local pumpkin patch, which is also co-owned by our friends, Jarod and Elizabeth. If you live in this area, I'd really encourage you to go. It's a LOT of fun and something we really needed in this area. We plan on going back next week so that Jaggar can join in on the fun!

Don't be confused about the first picture. This is from my last post from a month or so ago, but I put this here of Jaggar and me so that you could laugh at the next picture. Maybe Elizabeth and I have some relation?

Sage and Elizabeth: When I was uploading these, I saw that pic of Jaggar and I. Elizabeth looked like me! Or I looked like her? Must be our great hair. ;)

Sage going down the big slide.

The corn box! It's like a sand box, but it's full of corn kernels. Very fun.

Sage and her friend, Callie

Mid jump

The roller slide

Sage and Raven going to lunch.

Sage and her class

Decorating her pumpkin

Bike time

The pumpkin express (it reminds me of a carrot though)

Making a corn angel

Apathy

I've had the blogging breath knocked out of me apparently. I have new pictures to post, but I just can't seem to motivate myself to post them. Not sure what's up with that. Maybe I'll get my motivation back....just not today.