...happy birthday to me...

We interrupt your regularly scheduled wedding-related programming to talk about how utterly fabulous the people in my life are.  I mean, I’m not one to brag, but I have THE most amazing husband and family and friends one could hope for.  You wish you were me. I’ve spent all day feeling so very loved and appreciated!

It all started when DG woke rolled over first thing this morning to give me a big hug and his very best rendition of “Happty Birfday”.  It was compelling, to say the least.  At about 7:00 AM, my phone rang.  My baby brother, who is currently somewhere in Indiana called to sing Happy Birthday.  At about 7:10 AM, my best friend called to yell, “Happy Birthday!  I’ll email you shortly when I get to work!”  At about 7:15 AM, my other best friend called to sing yet another birthday song and to let me know that she had to explain to her two little ones that 6:00 AM in Toronto is 5:00 AM in Nashville, which is much too early to call Auntie Racheal and sing.  On my drive to work I got a tex mex (that’s what all the cool kids call text messaging J ) from both my sisters-in-law.  When I logged in to my email, I was met with a message from my Mimi back home explaining all about the card she’d bought that she finally put in the mail and on and on.  She’s cute.  My coworkers took me out to lunch and bought me cupcakes and a card AND! stood in a circle in the middle of all our cubicles in the office building to sing, yet again.  My sweet mother-in-law called to wish me happy birthday just a few minutes ago.  How many birthday wishes can one girl take?!  Seriously people.!

And most exciting of all…this is how much my dear husband loves me on my birthday!

And this was included as part an Apple promotion FOR FREE.  I am pretty hyped.

As I write this, it is currently  4:15 PM on August 11^th.  I know the well-wishing is not over, and I am already overwhelmed by the amount of love in my life.  Everywhere I look, I am met with people I love to my very core…who love me in return.  It is the greatest feeling in the world.  I am so grateful.  27 was a good year.  I fell even more deeply in love…got engaged…crafted the wedding of our dreams…and walked away married to the greatest man alive.  Who knows what 28 will hold?  A part of me hopes for a lot of things to dramatically change.  Another clings to hold on to what’s familiar and comfortable.  All I know is this, if these are the people I have to keep me company along the way, I’m going to be more than fine.

So yeah, Happy Birthday to me!