Happy {early} Birthday to Me!

Today will be a great day!

Why?
Well, for starters, Emily Giffin's newest novel is released today!!

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I pre-ordered it (which felt like forever ago)

and this morning when I checked my e-mail, it said 

my Nook purchase was ready!
Yay!

Aaaaaaaaannddd...

I'm having lunch with my wonderful mother-in-law,

then I am boarding the dogs overnight

so my husband can whisk me away for the evening!!

Eeeeeeeeeeeep!

And he has the whole day off to spend with meeeeeeeeeeee.

I'm so excited.

I still don't know where we are going, 

but I do know I don't have to take care of our lovely furbabies for the next 24 hours

and I don't have to cook/clean/do dishes!!

That makes for a PERFECT birthday!

I love love love birthdays.

We've always spent the whole week celebrating birthdays in my family...

I turn 31 tomorrow, on July 25th.

I don't feel "thirty-one".

But I do feel different that I will be carrying a baby on my birthday!!

How exciting, that from now on I'll have a child to celebrate my birthday with.

I love our growing family.

30 was better than I ever could have imagined;

I cannot wait to see what 31 has in store.

Here's to another  year of fabulous.

To me!