Flirty: The New Thirty

I had a birthday last week. I know you all know this because facebook told you so.

My mom told me that I wasn't turning thirty, I was turning flirty. I personally don't think that being flirty in my current situation is a great idea...unless it means I'm flirty with Rus? Anyway...

Yay!

I'm THIRTY!

I guess this means I'm going to start seeing gray hairs and wrinkles and my body is going to start breaking down all the time. And my memory will go and I'll call everybody the wrong name all the time (my own kids, esp.), and I'll stop doing adventurous things like wrecking motorcycles and doing handstands in public...

But the tradeoff is now I have some years of experience to back all of the wisdom that I have to share with the world...and now my spot at the grown up table at family dinners is secure...and I can wear sweats more. (right?)

Here I am, all grown up. (*sigh*)

How do you feel about a high bun? I feel sort of ridiculous but I love it at the same time...and now that I'm thirty I never care what people think...

See my coat? And my earrings? And my yellow shirt? Yep, my mother still shops for me and thus still dresses me. And I will never be too old for that.
On my birthday DeAnn and I went out for lunch and some lite shopping. A wonderful sister in my ward actually called and volunteered to watch my kids while I went to lunch and so I gave her Marianne but kept Beau because he and Russel love to hang out and fight with each other. I went on a date that night with Rus to the temple...not because I'm so uber wonderful that it's the only place I wanted to be, but because I'm a cheap date and the temple sounded nice. Rus did take me out for dessert afterwards and we got it for free because we arrived just at closing. (I am a cheap date!)
The next day a friend took me out for a mani/pedi and dinner and it was so nice to just hang out and talk and discover the amazingness of freshly buffed fingernails - I never knew they could be so shiny without any polish!!!...Oh, sorry I just had to look at them for a few more seconds...
Then the birthday fun continued this morning when I went to breakfast with my visiting teachers! How great is it to stretch one birthday out over three days?! And now I'm going to go enjoy some birthday oreos and milk...