XXIX

The prompting of a good friend (you know who you are) pushed me to post today.

Is your blog officially dead if you only post once a year (on your birthday)? I'm pretty sure on this very page (no need to hit "older posts") you'll see last year's birthday post.

Even if my blog's in the morgue...here's to XXIX!

This year I just have to say that I'm humbled. I can't count the number of times in my 29th year that I've said I'm humbled (or #humbled). In some cases it was due to something embarrassing I'd said or done. Many times it was because of the way God provided just enough at just the right time, but today I am so very humbled at how God loves me through my people.

I really do think that I am the most blessed person on this planet. I don't know if anyone could possibly feel as loved as I do. The Lord is so kind to show me that he loves me by putting people in my life who do so well.

So in honor of being #humbled, here are 29 times in the last year that I felt so humbled. In order to keep myself from humiliation some may be vague.

1. Just before my 28th birthday I got to see how successful my very favorite people had become as she shined on Broadway...so stinking talented!! #humbled

2. Surprise my 28th birthday party is NEON themed!! #humbled

3. Finished up my time at Children At Heart...my blessed first full-time job ever! Hard to say goodbye to great friends! #humbled

4. Planned a Fall Pumpkin Carving party the night of a baseball playoff game...no pumpkin carving after all. #humbled

5. I finish my last semester with the DELTAS! #humbled

6. Fell in a FREEZING COLD river for an audience (thankfully not alone) on a camping trip at 'Ol Baldy. #humbled

7. Learned how altitude affects a baby's tummy. #humbled

8. Cheered on the Covenant Knights as they played the state football game in the rain...and brought home the silver. #humbled

9. Attended my first Mardi Gras Ball. (you know why I was) #humbled

10. Reunited with my sweet friend Lisa. It had been too long! #humbled

11. Began meeting with two pretty special girls on a weekly basis. #humbled

12. My best friend loses her daddy, yet God provides ABUNDANTLY more than we could have imagined. #humbled

13. Applied for grad school...quickly discovered that was a terrible idea.#humbled

14. Welcomed two chick babies to our special team! #humbled  

15. Rang in the Cinco De Mayo with mustaches, quite the fiesta and some of the greatest friends ever. #humbled

16. Loved welcoming two new chick husbands into that coveted role (and by that I mean we SHOWERED their wives). #humbled

17. Was told more times than I can count that I dress like I'm in college. #humbled

18. Epic. Bahamas. Vacay. #humbled

19. Watched every episode of The Bachelorette. #humbled

20. Nearly set a record for most live music events attended in one year. #humbled

21. Celebrated ONE great year with Maggie Beth. #humbled

22. Can't list here how many complete TV series I watched (most on the CW and abc family) #humbled

23. Got to sing at my first ever roommie's (TAMU '02) wedding! #humbled

24. Sure did spend a lot of days in my pajamas working from home. #humbled

25. Enjoyed a super fun weekend in Cali with the Rubey fam!! #humbled

26. In the last year, God provided nine opportunities to shoot weddings! #humbled

27. Celebrated in Florida where so much fun was had with my roommies. #humbled

28. Spent so many fabulous days with my favorite little person on earth. #humbled

29. Felt so very loved by the best friends and family anyone's ever known. #humbled

28!

"28!" that's what my calendar says today.

It reminds me that 28! very short years ago I came into the world. Every year I'm a year older and every year I'm equally amazed that it's even possible that a year has passed since the last.

It's my 28!th birthday today...and though I never thought my life would look like it does today I do know better today than ever before what this life is about, that I'm so relieved I gave it away and I'm more thankful every day that I don't have control to make it what I thought it would be.

Loving life at 28!

I suppose this is a great space to review the last year of my life. Today my life is FULL! At some point soon I'll unpack all the changes that I'm walking through in addition to turning 28! here...but for now a 28! image photographic review will have to suffice!

Year 28! (or is it 27...I'm always so confused about how that works?):

1. ACL 2010! I was 27 for twice at ACL! This may be the only year that I'm the same age at two Festivals!

 

2. Everest Road shot the Boyd wedding in Maryland and we got a day in Annapolis while I was 27!

 

3. Our epic Garner camping trip was a 27 hit!


4. And one of my very favorite couples got married while I was 27.

5. The roommate celebrated her birthday with a chili cook-off while I was 27.

6. At 27 I had a fabulous Thanksgiving with my family!!!


7. I can't express how thankful I am for this crew...here at my 28!th Christmas with my family!!


8. The third annual Monarch ski trip happened while I was 27

 

9. I was, yet again, reminded how blessed I am to have fabulous friends (in Salida, CO) at 27.


10. Baby chick #2 was born while I was 27. I LOVE my Elise Joy!!!


11.The chicks spent a weekend in Austin to greet baby Elise!


12. My girlzzzzzzzzzzz (DDD), yet again, blessed my life while I was 27 (at an end of year celebration on the lake at the Blair home)


13. My precious roommates made being 27 one of the greats! (and at the end of year 27 I even got a new fun roommate.)


14. I caught up with a very close friend when I was 27 (it had been almost ten years). This one's from our first trip to NYC this year.

 

15. At Courtney's wedding...At 27 I still have the best friends in the world.

 

16. We celebrated the coming of my favorite Maggie Beth with showers when I was 27!

17. Hosting parties for my best friend (sis) was one of the greatest parts of 27.

 

18. Well...that and hosting parties for my precious friend/business partner/rock, Julie. While I was 27 sweet Hadley came into the world too!!

19. And then she was born!!! The best moment of 27 by a landslide was the arrival of MAGGIE BETH!

20. When Rachel has a birthday we celebrate on the river! These sweet friends left to travel the world soon after this 27th pic. So thankful for them.

21. My 27-year-old happy place

22. On the river...so thankful we get to do life together, cousin!

23. I was FLOORED by an amazing vacation to the DR with great friends while I was 27.

24. 27 was made awesome by days like these - a lake day with some of my favorite folks!

25. This group made 27 fabulous.

26.I did a heck of a lot of this while I was 27...but hopefully I'll do even more at 28!

 

27. NYC for the second time with three of my very favorite people included Time Square excitement like this!

28. And then there was the second ACL of 27 with one of my very BFFL!

So you see, www, that I had a FABULOUS year being 27. I can only dream of how great 28! will be. And just because everything's better with her...

HB, B-I-L!

He's a part of my family AND one of my very favorite people...

So you'd better believe Charlie gets a birthday post...even if it is a day late (it's how I roll).

And since it's probably tacky for me to tell you his age I WON'T... That'd be rude. 

But I will post 35 ridiculous things that show up when you google brother-in-law.

1. A hilarious brother-in-law song

2.brother-in-law cavemen

3.An amazing brother-in-law poem

4. A brother-in-law knight

5.A fantastic brother-in-law greeting - really?

6. A president and his brother-in-law

7.A You're special, brother-in-law link

8. A brother-in-law couch-potato

9.Another amazing pbrother-in-law oem

10.A "You have a big heart" brother-in-law card

11. brother-in-law rabbits?

12.  Another you are SPECIAL brother-in-law card  

13. brother-in-law Bears

13.A "You're a star that shines bright" brother-in-law song

14.Brother-in-Law Ln.

15. I'm not making it up -  this actually came up when i searched brother-in-law 

 

16. Another awesome brother-in-law poem...I did not write

17. A homeless brother-in-law

18. This awesome happy guy

Ok...so it turns out there aren't 35 ridiculous google links about brother-in-laws...just 18.

But, in case you were wondering, this is what should show up if you google "the greatest brother-in-law there ever was":

no...for real.