Birthday

It's official.

I'm now 35. I'm no longer in my "early thirties." Nope, now I'm in my "mid thirties." This time next year-I'll officially be in my "late thirties." Where does the time go?

After the week from hell (except for the part where my parents came down), we finally made it out of town and home to Kansas City. Thank you Jesus. That's all I got to say about that.

We had pizza last night with Mike, Jenny, the girls and Mom and Dad. It was a nice, relaxing evening. The girls got to play a bit and everyone just chilled out.

Today we got up and around fairly early. Tanner and I got ready and went to the cemeteries with Mom and Dad. I'm glad we went, but it made me really sad. I don't know-it was just weird, sad, happy....all at the same time. I can remember going to the cemeteries with my Mom and Grandparents while growing up and it didn't affect me at all. Now that I'm older and have been blessed enough to have had incredible relationships with my grandparents, going to the cemeteries have new meaning.

My Mom had an older sister that passed away two days after being born. My Aunt and Uncle on my Mom's side also had a little girl that passed away-20 years to the day after Mom's sister. We went to both of the babies graves. Yea, that was sad. Both were buried in plots where other babies and kids were buried-holy cow talk about sad! I can't even imagine.

While at Grandma and Grandpa Golden's graves, we saw my Unkie from Oklahoma. That was pretty stinking cool! We had no idea he was in town and just happened to run into him at the cemetery! Great surprise indeed.

We came home and got a bite to eat then I went to run errands with Jenny while Mom, Dad, Tanner and Emma stayed home. Did I forget to mention through all of this, Mike and Steve were out shopping!?? I swear, those boys crack.me.up!

Tonight Mike and Jenny and the girls came down and Dad grilled burgers and dogs for us. It was a nice, relaxing evening. My Uncle Dale and Aunt Claud came down and had birthday cake and ice cream with us. It's always good to see them.

The big scare of the day came while Tanner was taking a shower. I was getting ready in the bedroom and heard a thud but thought it was in the living room. Meanwhile, Mom, Dad and Steve were in the living room and heard a thud but thought it was in the bedroom. Tanner's hollering....from the shower....."MOM!" I went running in the bathroom where she was standing in the shower, crying and saying her knee was hurting. Evidently, she slipped and fell in the shower and landed on her bad knee, on the side of the bathtub. Poor baby! She was crying and in so much pain, she was kind of holding her breath and since she was in a hot, steamy room, I thought she may pass out. So I'm trying to console her, while telling her to breathe and take deep breaths and my heart was breaking-all at the same time! I felt so bad for her! She's got a nice big knot and bruise now on her knee and it's much more sore now then it was! I guess it's good she does it now before we get it fixed, huh?

Well, my Lunesta (sleeping pill) is kicking in and I feel as if I could fall asleep at the keyboard, so I think I'll proof read this and go to bed. By the way-I've got lots of pictures, but won't be able to post them until we get home Monday night.

Until then.......................