My 30th Birthday

I celebrated my 30th birthday this March. It wasn't too bad. I think I had a worse time of feeling old when I turned 26 than when I turned 30. Matt planned the weekend out for me using my suggestions. He did wonderfully. It was very relaxing and fun. I had been home the weekend before to celebrate with family so it was nice to have some fun birthday dates with my sweetie.

On Friday night, we made homemade pizza on the grill. It was very tasty. We're going to try it again using woodchips to add flavor.

We had a bonfire in the yard and made S'mores.

Stevie thought the marshmallows were delicious.

Pizza and S'mores makes for a pretty awesome Friday night. It was like having a spend the night party in elementary school.

On Saturday we went to Cape Canaveral to tour the Space museum and launch pads.

This is in the Appollo mission area.

You could go inside the space shuttles.

Looking up into the reflective materials inside the space shuttle.

Rockets on display.

There was a unmanned rocket launch that afternoon so we watched from the parking lot.

It was really cool to actually see a launch. It was loud and you could see the rocket in the sky for a long time.

Matt and I are space nerds so it was really cool to see in person all the equipment and facilities we had read about or seen on TV. The visitors center at Cape Canaveral also has 2 wonderful 3d IMAX movies: Space Station and Hubble. Probably one of my more favorite things to see was the movies.

On Sunday we headed to Orlando for some outlet mall shopping and to the Flower and Garden Festival at EPCOT. HGTV is one of the main sponsors of the Flower and Garden show and their TV hosts are leading design classes throughout the festival. The first weekend was the best (to me), Genevieve Gorder, from Dear Genevieve and Trading Spaces spoke on creating vignettes for your space. She was really informative and smart and funny to hear speak. I was really excited to see her in person.

We had a delicious dinner in Mexico.

Thanks for making my birthday so great sweetie!

Part of the fun of the Flower and Garden festival is seeing the topiary creations they make out of the Disney characters. I really loved this Pooh Bear.

It was really a wonderful birthday. I got to shop, go to Disney World, eat tasty food, spend time with Matt and just enjoy the weekend. I couldn't have asked for a more blessed day. Happy Birthday to me!