My birthday

Yes, I know it was a month and a half ago, but I'm finally getting around to posting pictures from this summer.

As you all may know, I have the coolest sister on the face of the earth. Jeremy was out of town for my birthday, and my sister came to visit for a couple weeks. Lorie and my girls threw me a Hannah Montana birthday party complete with invitations, decorations and games. You know you're jealous.

and what would a party be like without some form of pin the tail on the donkey? We played "pin the Hannah-tail on the donkey" which is merely a Hannah Montana sticker on each donkey tail. It's Lorie's little way of making fun of me for doing some form of pin the tail on the donkey at every kid's birthday party: "pin the crown on the princess," "pin the spiderman on the web," etc.

I won (oh yes, and she also got me this birthday ribbon)

We also played Hannah Montana bingo and Encore.

Liah played Happy Birthday for me on the piano while everyone sang.

For the record, I turned 28, not 82, like Liah thought...

(thanks for the cake Kim!)

Don't I have the best sister ever??? I love you Lorie!!! I miss you!

Happy Anniversary!

Happy Anniversary Jeremy! 8 years and 4 kids later and I love you more than the day I married you.

Here's to forever...

Stupid Injuries

So I always hurt myself in the dumbest ways. Today was by far the dumbest. I hurt my shoulder this morning. so badly, I couldn't even lift my arm to pour water to take some medicine. I had to ask Jeremy to do it for me. And how did I do this, you might ask? Wait for it.

I have hurt my shoulder, neck, back before. Always something dumb: reached too far to grab something, rib goes out. Lifted my head to look at my clock, neck and shoulders go out.

Today, what did I do? I breathed. Yes, you read that right. I breathed! What am I, 90?!? If there is one thing you should be able to do without injuring yourself, it is breathing!!! I got up at 5 to go running, went to where my group meets, waited for 10 minutes and no one showed, so I thought, well, I'm not running 8 miles alone. So I went home, did some laundry and thought, I think I will read for a little while until everyone gets up. I laid down on my bed. I took a deep relaxing breath, and... out goes my shoulder. Muscles start spasming. Then I couldn't move. Super. Thankfully Jeremy took the time to massage my muscle for a while with IcyHot and let me sleep for a few hours. I'm feeling much better now, thankfully. But seriously.... I just breathed!!!