Before you ask, I'll just tell you: 30 doesn't feel any different from 29 or any other age. Well, except that I finally am not embarrassed to say my age. 30 sounds older than 29 and since I've always felt older than I am, I'm happy to be 30. But, now I feel 35. I'm again the "baby" of my friends, but at least I'm in the same decade as them whereas I used to be at least a decade or two behind. I'm catching up!
Next you want to know how I celebrated my birthday. Well, it started with a party at my friend Heidi's house on the 7th. I thought it would be just the three of us (me, Heidi and our friend Amy) but lo and behold, Mia and Brenda were there too. We all have munchkins around 3-years-old so it was a hopping gathering. On the 8th, I went and had my hair cut and highlighted. Sierra cut off about four inches! I will NEVER try and grow my hair long again!
On my birthday the 9th, Grammy & Pops took me to lunch at Qdoba Grill, our newest Mexican restaurant. Think Subway meets Baja Fresh and you get an idea. Yummy food! We did a little shopping then a little nap before dinner at G & P's place. Pops cooked yummy to my tummy pasta with Italian sausage. It was a fun night, especially because Scott wouldn't SHUT UP about his new job. Don't let his lackluster "It's okay" fool you, the guy really likes it.
Now here's where it gets good. Scott had blurted out at dinner one night that our dinner reservations were at 7pm on Saturday. I couldn't figure out why in the world we'd need reservations, but okay. So after I changed outfits eight times, we dropped Adam off at my parents and ended up at the East 40 Chophouse. When we walked in, I saw Scott peek into the bar and thought that was a little odd, but okay. And when the host walked us to our seats but didn't bring menus, I thought that was odd, but okay. Surprise! There's Amy and Heidi and their husbands! We had a fun evening together. Our husbands hadn't yet met each other but when they discovered they'd all been Boy Scouts and Eagle Scouts, well it was over for us ladies.
Oh, you want to know about Scott's job? Well, he went for an interview on January 18 and they offered him the job on the spot. After coming home to tell me about it, he decided to accept and they gave him a start date of February 6. Here's where the cool part comes in. Scott applied for this job before Thanksgiving and we prayed, "Okay God, this isn't really a job we'd considered before, but if it's what You have for us, then let it be." He went on a few different interviews since then, having never heard from them, and we figured it was still out there. He even went to Texas to interview for a job up here just two days before this interview. Anyhow, he got the job so we felt God wanted him to have it PLUS the start date allowed us to go away for our 5th anniversary without taking any time off AND finish some projects around our house and G & P's. Eide is only 3 miles from home so he comes home for lunch or meets us somewhere. This is the first time since before our wedding that we haven't worked together, so we're adjusting to the change. Adam thought it was weird at first, but now he gets it. When we drive past Eide, Adam says, "Let's stop and see what Daddy is doing."
Okay, okay. Now I'll tell you about our anniversary. Since we didn't know what was going on job-wise for Scott, we hadn't planned a fancy trip. But we wanted to get away. So we took off a couple days before our anniversary and did a driving tour of South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota. As we chose cities and hotels, we decided to try cuisine not available to us in Bismarck. So, in Aberdeen we had the BEST Mexican food since leaving California. In Sioux Falls, we had the BEST Indian food ever and we've both lived in England so we know GOOD Indian food. And in Fargo, we had Japanese. It wasn't quite as good as our favorite place in San Leandro, but it was still delicious! The rest was shopping, sightseeing and just relaxing.
Though I have more news, I have to end here for now. Look for another update towards the end of the week. And no, I'm not pregnant.
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