Happy Birthday to me!

I better start cranking out these posts or before I know it I'm going to be buried in Fall, birthday, anniversary posts galore!!

I turned another year old- I'm sure 29 will be a fantastic end to my 20's. Crazy to think about all that happened in my 20's! I met, fell in love, and married Ben. I graduated from undergrad and grad school. I moved to Washington, worked, and will have had 2 babies by the time i'm done with this decade! Crazy. As a reminder that I am getting older, I discovered my first wrinkle by my eye on the morning of my birthday. no joke. Oh well, off to botox I go. j/k 

My birthday was absolutely wonderful. The super hubby got up early to cook me breakfast- swedish pancakes, an aunt Jo classic. God gave me a birthday hello with an incredible double rainbow.. I can't even remember the last time I saw a rainbow!

                         

In the morning, I met up with some friends for a Starbucks and walk down in Edmonds. The leaves were just starting to change and it was an absolutely BEAUTIFUL day. I started getting a barrage of sweet text messages- turns out Ben had organized a massive schedule of texts throughout the day from friends & family. My sweet sister made me an absolutely delicious salad for lunch.. seriously I keep thinking about it. (http://jessieheaviland.blogspot.com/2012/10/week-of-september-24th-2012.html) Came home for nap time, Colter took a super long nap, and then I ran a quick errand. Ben got home early and made an insane fest for some friends and I for........... my murder mystery party!!! 

I absolutely love murder mystery dinners. I've done a couple in youth group and one living in Washington- they are so fun to get people out of their normal element and try something different. I picked one off amazon called murder at mardi gras, and we had SUCH A BLAST. I was a little over the top- I was a gothic author. It was so fun to have people show up in character and do something out of the norm. What a fabulous way to celebrate my bday. Sorry about the camera phone quality.

                              

I can't end this post without talking about Ben's super special gift. For about 2 weeks before my bday, he would retreat to the garage to work on a super secret project. I heard hammering, sanding, painting, and printing.. I had NO idea what he was doing. Well, Mr. Wonderful strikes again with this super sweet, sentimental sign that is seriously AMAZING. If it didn't take so long- I told him he needed to go into business! I saw this quote once on a blog I love and emailed it to him- saying I wanted something with this saying. Well what a surprise this was!

Thank you to everyone who made my birthday so wonderfully special!