Baby Love

When I was growing up and still to this day my mommy has always called me "baby love." I have always found it so sweet and loved the sound of it every time I heard it. In about an hour (it is currently 12:00a) I will turn another year older. (24 to be exact.) Yes, I know that this isn't "old" by any means, but this number has brought so many memories to the surface and has made me have a nostalgic look on my past.

As I was growing up as a little girl I was surrounded by people who loved me. I was the center of the attention most of the time because I was the baby of the family. I still enjoy watching home videos of my cousin John (basically my brother because I was an only child) pull me around in a cardboard box and my head would experience whip lash with each pull. The family still laughs about this memory and we all swear that is why I am slightly out of whack... haha.

Throughout this entire week leading up to my birthday I have thought about different memories and they are always filled with my amazing, fantastic, best in the world parents. Yes, I know most everyone thinks their parents are the best, but in my humble opinion mine have yours beat. ;) Life with them has made me the person I am today and I am so thankful for them ten times over. Tonight as we were sitting on the patio together before dinner I had an overwhelming feeling of how blessed I am and I wouldn't trade it for the world. So to my mommy and daddy, thank you. God blessed me with the best family and I am so happy to call you mine. I love you.

To finish the lovey dovey moments I can never finish this post without talking about my sweet Jonathan. Two years ago I met Jonathan in a bar. Haha, will that not be a great story to tell our kids... it actually goes like this:

My friend Ashton and I were heading up to Raleigh to do some shopping and on our way up we were having the normal girl discussions (boys, feelings, clothes, etc...). Well, when we began the discussion of boys I mentioned how I really wasn't looking for anyone and I was going to basically let the next one fall in my lap because I was done trying... two seconds later Ashton is chiming in about all the guys in her recreation classes and there was this one guy, Jon, who would be "perfect." Hahaha little did I know. A week or so passes and I have completely forgotten about this "perfect" guy and Ashton calls me about how she has talked to him about me and he wouldn't mind meeting up! Wow... didn't expect for that conversation in the car to Raleigh would go this far. So my birthday was coming up and I hate blind dates so I told her to tell him that we were all meeting up at Lucky's downtown and he should just come, that way if it was awkward we both had an escape route and were not stuck at dinner. Well, we ending up talking a little and I spilled water on him... haha. To make my rambling short... he then called me the next day and we had a couple of dates and decided to start a relationship on April 30th. He shortly left for TN, but I still fell head over heels (with every 8 hour drive up there...) and I have never been happier.

So you see my birthday now has so many more added memories and it makes life so much sweeter. I am very thankful for the past 24 years and can not wait for the next. Whoa.. I will be 48 then... wonder where I will be then. (I have a few ideas, but we will let life take me there!) Hopefully someone will have created a miracle drug to get rid of wrinkles and make chocolate the weight-loss food... oh 2035.

Finally, tomorrow is Easter! I hope that each of you remember what great gifts your Savior has given you.

When they did not find His body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels who said He was alive.
Luke 24:23