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yesterday, i turned 29!  it was a good day.

i woke up and hung out in bed for a while until almost 9 and it was time to take abigail to preschool.  i love that quiet time with my phone in the morning and it was extra fun reading happy birthday texts and facebook messages!  i grabbed both kids out of bed and got them in the car and to preschool.  early even!  brady and i went home and he ate oatmeal and played while i lounged and talked on the phone with emmy.  then i'm not really sure what happened because it was 11:30 and i panicked that brady and i were still in pj's and i hadn't done anything to pack stuff for the zoo!  so i got us ready and out the door and somehow remembered everything i needed to except a coat for myself.  so i was going to freeze.  oh well... it could have been much worse.  what if i'd forgotten our stroller or something?  that would have been bad.

anyways, i was late picking abigail up.  ugh, i'm the worst.  we made it to the zoo, parked, and were in the gates by one.  the whole zoo thing was a last minute idea just created the night before when my sil saw that it was the last free day of the year and invited myself and my mil to join her.  anyways, i met up with them, told kelsey i was knocked up (without my jacket... and wearing a pretty fitted shirt... i figured we should just go ahead and be out with it sooner, rather than waiting for the awkwardness), and found a place for lunch.  i got a cheese burger with fries and it was delightful.  the pickles on it were to die for... which is something because i typically hate pickles on my burger.  the zoo was a lot of fun, but mostly it was just fun being with family.  abigail was so precious though because she was really into see the animals... much moreso than she's ever been on previous visits.  she loved the hippos and was soooo wanting for the one in the water to walk out of the water... which it didn't.  even though we waited forever for it.  ; )  eventually it was getting cold and late and the sun was about to set (because that happens at 4:45...) and we headed out.  i got to my car and... my battery was dead.  sooooo dead.  i called kelsey and klaudette as fast as i could and had them come over to where i was parked.  neither car had cables so we flagged down the first car we saw and it was a super nice lady (shoutout to barb junkermeier!!!  I LOVE YOU!!!) that had just gotten off her shift at the zoo.  she helped us for what seemed like forever because my battery was sooooo dead.  and i said a prayer or two that my car would eventually start and texted chris for him to do the same.  several minutes after that, it finally started!  by that time, it was definitely dark and denver traffic was horrendous.  i was going to be late for our babysitter.  texted the babysitter and told her i'd be late and text her when i got home.  my eta went from 6 to 6:10 to 6:15 and by the time i finally got home, both kids had been sleeping for about 45 minutes and were not at all happy about being woken up.  abigail cried and begged to go to bed (which chris and i panicked about because that would leave brady alone with the babysitter) which i went along with, and luckily 10 minutes after she was in bed, she said she was okay to stay awake a bit longer.  brady screamed when we left but apparently calmed down right after.  we were only gone two hours and both kids loved our babysitter and did really well.

whoops... forgot about paragraphs.  anyways...

chris and i went to macaroni grill for dinner.  my one birthday request was that i have dinner out alone with my honey... on my birthday night.  this is unusual for me because i normally don't care what day i celebrate a birthday or anniversary on and last year i wanted a casual dinner with both of our kids (we went out for falafels at garbonzos) and the year before i didn't want to go out for dinner, but i did want to get frozen yogurt with abigail (brady wasn't born yet).  but for weeks, i've wanted dinner alone with my honey.  and it was wonderful.  perhaps the best birthday present of the day was that i turned 12 weeks... although sadly, was still feeling really sick that night (my morning sickness has been at it's worst at night... after 4pm) and barely ate any of my food.  but hanging out and joking around with my honey was perfect.  we didn't talk about anything in particular... just randomness and i loved it.

when we got home, i sat on the fireplace and opened my presents and birthday cards.  honey gave me a book and tickets to the ballet.  i'm sooo excited about the tickets to the ballet and i've been talking lately about how much i love seeing live performances and whatever, especially during the holiday season.  i wasn't trying to drop hints and i'm not sure if he even got the idea from that (from something he said, it kind of sounded like he got the tickets before i started mentioning it because he offered to sell these tickets on craigslist and get different tickets to take the kids with us since i want to take abigail to the ballet) but he sure nailed it.  also, i told him i'd cry if he sold these tickets and he better not touch them.  i think i'll take abigail and brady to the ballet at the local theater in parker, but i still want to see the fancy ballet with chris in denver.  ; )

and then we put the kids to bed and ourselves to bed.  10pm... i think it's the latest i've gone to bed in two months.  ; )  i loved all of the texts and calls and facebook messages and voicemails.  i feel very loved and very blessed.  i'm anxious to enjoy the last year of my 20's and excited for everything it will bring!