27 birthdays

Update: Thank you for all of the birthday texts, e-mails, phone calls and Facebook posts. Ya’ll really know how to make a girl feel loved.

Today is my birthday. I’ve been wished Happy Birthday by a handful of people on two wrong days this past week, so I was starting to second guess when the big day actually is. But I double checked and yep, it’s today. I’m officially 27. 

Back when I was a kid, before I realized how quickly 27 would come, I somehow chose this age as the ideal age to be. It sort of happened in the same way that I chose 8 as my lucky number. I just did. I was 8 years old at the time, and I was afraid people would think that was the reason I liked the number. It still is my lucky/favorite number. Random I know.

I must have envisioned 27 as the age of a true adult. For about five years I told people that my oldest brother was “about 27″ because I couldn’t remember exactly how old he really was, but knew he was a grown up. I also thought 27 was a good age to buy a house and have my first baby (for the record I thought I’d also get married at 22). And I remember picking 27 as the year I wished to stop aging because, as I would tell my dad, that’s when you “are an adult, but still young.” I’m not making any of this up people; I really thought these things. I was a weird kid. The funny thing is that I don’t feel like an adult, my brother is 40 now and seeing as how it takes roughly 10 months to gestate a baby, it doesn’t look like I’ll be doing that at 27.

Thank you to everyone for the (early) birthday wishes and for helping me celebrate this “grown up” milestone. I’m really blessed to have such a wonderful group of people in my life.

I must have been the smartest one-year-old ever! Or maybe I just liked to point…?  

Oh, and one last thing: my mom would like to announce that when I was born I was the biggest baby she’d ever seen. I weighed 10 pounds. I’m thinking we may should celebrate her today instead.

Photo creds likely go to my mom. I swiped all of these pictures from an old album back when I was still entertaining the idea of a photo slideshow for our wedding. I totally ran out of time and never got that made, but I suppose that’s par for the course ’round these parts.