Turning 26

So it's been well over a week since my Birthday, and I figured it was about time I get around to posting something about it.

Overall as I've said before Birthday's are not that big of a deal in our family, so as usual it wasn't super eventful. However, it was nice and I enjoyed it, other than the reminder I'm getting old.

In the morning I had to go into work for a few hours and then I went to the gym afterwards. Erin came over in the afternoon to see me and we celebrated my Birthday with my Mom and Casey as Dad was working late in the fields to make up for the wet spring.

Mom fixed Meatloaf for dinner which I had requested, it was really good as well as making me a Red Velvet cake. She even got Happy Birthday Candles.

Erin got me a Wind-Up Hippo Bank which is awesome



and.....


a LASER DISC PLAYER!




Which if you follow my blog, you know completes one of my goals in life of owning one of these neat but obsolete pieces of technology. Laser Disc


Casey got me one of my favorite movies, Muppet Treasure Island on DVD as well.


Overall it was a really good Birthday, like I said the only problem is that I'm getting older and am reminded by it everytime I punch my weight/age into the treadmill or elliptical machine at the gym blah. Sometimes it seems like my life hasn't progressed much these last few years since getting out of college. Oh well.

November Thoughts - Birthdays

Today's Blog is about Birthday's










In honor of Megan and Emily who came up to the hotel on Saturday to celebrate their birthdays (along with Morgan the third non-birthday sister)



Honestly to me birthdays have never really been that big of a deal, my most memorable birthday was my 13th in which I totaled my Dad's truck (great way to kick off your birthday right?). I know I had at least one birthday party when I was little (I've seen pictures, I had a baseball glove cake). But really the day was never really anything too special other than you got to pick out where we went out to eat at, at our house. Even Casey never really had a big birthday celebration either until recently when she had he tea party for her twentieth birthday. That said I don't really feel like I missed out on anything special.



Both Megan and Emily had commented they would like to have a big party, so I guess inviting one friend (me to Megan) or a complete stranger (me to Emily) and your sisters isn't a big party :) I never really even wanted to have a big party though. I remember in elementary school kids use to have their parties at the roller rink in Greensburg, but I never even liked going to other kids birthdays now that I think of it back then.



Maybe I'm a birthday scrooge, or maybe I just never had enough close friends to fill up a real birthday party.



My favorite Birthday gift, was probably the playhouse/fort my Dad built my sister and I when we were little, this was a two story playhouse (which is now a one story chicken house), that housed some of the greatest squirt gun fights known to man... or at least it seemed like it at the time.



One final observation is the fact that Emily was mortified that she was turning 16 and how it would be the worst year of her life. I hope everyone doesn't go into a year expecting it will be their worst one, but if your worst year is your 16th I guess it can only get better from then on out right? I'm not sure what my worst year was.