Golden Birthday

Well folks, it's finally happened. I'm an old fart.

over the hill. past my prime. it's all downhill from here.

im so estatic.

all that comes next is wrinkles, baby pooch, bodacious love handles, and age spots... right?

can i even still shop at forever 21???

so many things to ponder.

 Thank goodness it was the best birthday yet.

Because lets be honest, I for real celebrated all month.

On Saturday I got to go shopping, and then my parental units were kind enough to spoil both Steven and I. We went to our favvvorite chinese place and I convinced Steven to go see the Scarlet Pimperel. And guess what.... success! we found a play he actually LIKED.

who'da thought that would ever happen?

I'm just sad he missed out seeing Viewmont's version.

It was the best play they'd ever done, hands down.

it's been over a year and im still obsessed.

Sunday was spent relaxing then hanging out with my family and wayy over indulging in all things delicious.

 Calories don't count on birthdays, don't cha know?

And i made pumpkin cookies for the 13th time.

yes, they are that amazing.

I spent my birthday morning sleeping in and cuddling puppies in bed.

Oh and totes catching up on Once Upon A Time. Of course.

Steven got back from work and took me out to lunch at that new place called "Johnny Rockets."

It was pretty spendid. And very adorable.

The rest of the day i dragged him to all around town to all the places he didn't want to go.

My birthday is probably the ONLY day i could get him to go into Hobby Lobby with me.

and then he convinced me to finally pierce my ears. life changes happening over here!!

i loved having the long weekend. but then i had to come back to this.

it's just a taste of what my life has been life.

choas.

i promise i haven't died. yet.

but if i keep working ten hour days it just might do me in.

we have to find creative ways to not go insane.

our little baby bean is totally adorable, right??

but man, is she sassssy!

it's hard to believe such a little body can have such a big attitude.

we love our little spaz ball.

Bittersweet

This last week has been the pits. Just plain awful. We had to make a decision I swore I'd never make. And it was harder then I ever could have anticipated.

Y'all know we love our puppy babies. But for the past couple months due to schedule and job changes, it was making it really hard on them. Particularly Graham. Big dogs just don't do we'll in apartments we've decided. He was happy, but we both knew he could be happier. Steven tried to convince me to let him find a new family for graham. I was so mad, and said there was no way.

A few weeks went by and I started feeling like maybe he was right. That maybe there was another family who would be better for our big boy. We put him up for adoption, and not a half hour later a lady called about him.

She told us how her family had just lost their lab, and they felt a huge hole in their family. Talking to her we found out they have a huge fenced in yard and 5 boys from 3 to 15. And most importantly, they all loved dogs.

A few of the boys and their dad came to meet graham. Graham acted like they were his new best friends. The boys already loved him. They all felt like this was the dog for them. So they took him.

And I bawled all weekend.

The mom has been texting me this week. Sending pictures, telling me the things he's been up too, and continually thanking me for giving them the best dog ever. It's made it a lot easier. I know we made the right choice for all of us. Graham is having the time of his life.

It's like a wise old wizard once said, "sometimes we must make the choice between what is right, and what is easy."

It would have been easy to just keep him, and not worry about anything. But we love him too much for that.

Today the mom texted me this:
"Just FYI: My 5 year old in his prayer this morning said "thank you for Graham cracker to come to our family". He also said "Graham is better than washing my hands"... In referring to how he licks his hands clean... Just thought id share :)"

As hard as it was, we know he is happy. And being spoiled to death :)