On Turning 30

So I had my 30th birthday on the 10th with only a little bit of fanfare. I had ideas going all year long of what to do or where to go but it all sort of fizzled out. Instead, we went to Claim Jumper with my parents and a few friends/co-workers and I proceeded to vomit later that night. The food was not actually to blame, it was merely catch-up from my disease laden children who all had similar nausea and vomiting the weekend before. My healthy constitution just couldn't fight it off anymore. As a joint birthday present to me/Christmas present for Jayne, we did buy a nice sectional couch and ottoman for the upstairs. Thanks to my awesome lame negotiation skills, we got $50 off the ottoman, which was already on clearance. Can you believe that we have one of the only RC Willey's outside of Utah in our town? At any rate, Jayne promises we'll do something fun next year after all our student loan debt is paid off. Okay, works for me.

Shortly before we moved to our current house this past June, I was sitting in a Sacrament meeting in our Rocklin Ward. It was fast Sunday and many of the recent high school graduates bore testimony as they were preparing to leave for college. Toward the end, our Stake Patriarch stood up and bore testimony to those kids about how the next 10 years of their lives would be the time they made the most important decisions they could ever make. College, career, spouse, kids, place to live, etc. As I close the decade of my 20's, his words couldn't be more true. I am so grateful for God's hand in those decisions that all came to pass during that time and look back with little regret. So here's to 10 more years of decision, experiences, triumphs and failures.