{"id":2114,"date":"2014-01-29T04:34:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T04:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.darais.com\/?p=2114"},"modified":"2014-01-29T04:34:30","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T04:34:30","slug":"happy-birthday-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/29\/happy-birthday-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday To Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was my thirtieth birthday and it feels like kindof a big deal. \u00a0I feel like I just lost the last part of me that felt sort-of young. \u00a0I mean, when I was in my twenties, I was lumped in with college undergrads etc., but now I’m lumped in with the thirties, which I’m sure is even a cooler group, but it does feel like a change!<\/p>\n

Lily and I each had great days today. \u00a0I had an awsome training session at work that gave me a lot of insight on how to succeed, and at home Lily was, well, accomplishing crazy amounts of stuff.<\/p>\n

Her day started off with a two and a half hour playdate with Paige Anderson and her daughters Ada and ‘Liv. \u00a0After that Lily somehow managed to practice piano, feed the children, clean the entire house, write me an incredibly touching birthday letter, make me a happy birthday door poster, paint me another happy birthday poster and finally set Lydia up with paints so she (Lydia) could paint me a happy birthday poster. \u00a0The crazy thing is that when I arrived home, she said she was not tired because she had rested during the day…..um…….when?<\/p>\n

But I have to say, all her efforts to make the day feel festive really changed the complexion of the day for me. \u00a0At work, most people didn’t know it was my birthday, and so not much of a deal was made (I’m still very new), but at home I felt truly celebrated and I thank my sweet wife for that.<\/p>\n

As soon as I got home, we had dinner with my mom and Jay at the Spaghetti factory (per my request). \u00a0I love the Spaghetti factory at Trolly Square because spaghetti speaks to my inner child and yet the atmosphere is classic vintage. \u00a0It’s hard to explain. \u00a0I just love how it feels there and the food is great. \u00a0Dinner conversation was very delightful with topics ranging from Obama raising the minimum wage to 3-D printing to why Payton Manning deserves to win the Super Bowl on moral grounds (because he’s such a dog gone awsome guy). \u00a0At the very end of dinner, it was time to go, but Lydia wanted to eat more of her Spumoni ice cream. \u00a0Lily told Lydia that she could take five more bites and then it would be time to go. \u00a0Lydia quickly took four bites and then, before she could take the fifth, she froze and started gazing into space. \u00a0We all assumed she had just acquired a massive brain freeze and then after her period of gazing she finally piped up, “I feel cold, does anyone else feel cold?” \u00a0It is truly hard to recreate how funny it was when she said that, but we all got a great belly laugh.<\/p>\n

Now it’s time for bed. \u00a0I’m eager to get to work tomorrow and start applying what I learned in training. \u00a0Pictures!!\"IMG_6405\"<\/a> \"IMG_6403\"<\/a> \"IMG_6402\"<\/a> \"IMG_6399\"<\/a> \"IMG_6394\"<\/a> \"IMG_6393\"<\/a> \"IMG_6391\"<\/a> \"IMG_6390\"<\/a> \"IMG_6389\"<\/a> \"IMG_6387\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today was my thirtieth birthday and it feels like kindof a big deal. \u00a0I feel like I just lost the last part of me that felt sort-of young. \u00a0I mean, when I was in my twenties, I was lumped in with college undergrads etc., but now I’m lumped in with the thirties, which I’m sure … Continue reading Happy Birthday To Me!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,7,14,22,35,38,40,49,58,63,69,77,80,86,87,89,94,95,1,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abe-blogs","category-abe-pics","category-amass","category-book-of-mormon","category-crafting","category-family-party","category-finished-a-book","category-floor-time-with-my-children","category-k","category-lydia-pics","category-mary-pics","category-old-testament","category-piano-practice","category-play-date","category-reading-for-fun","category-reading-to-my-children","category-restaraunt","category-scripture-journal","category-scriptures","category-uncategorized","category-visiting-wvisiting-teachee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}