today

is a special day!
yep, it's my birthday.

funny- I was reading a new book I picked up at the library- Water for Elephants- and chapter one starts out-
"When you're five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties you know how old you are. I'm twenty-three, you say, or maybe twenty-seven. But then in your thirties something strange starts to happen. It's a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I'm --you start confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say thirty-three, but you're not. You're thiry-five. And then you're bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it's decades before you admit it."
Especially funny, because just shortly before I read that last night I was telling my seminary class it was my birthday the next day, and they were all guessing how old I am, sadlly most were guessing too high, then I told them I will be 35, then on says you were born in'72, and I had to think- wait, I will only be 34. yay. I gained a year. haha. Acutally I usually have to think how old Cory is then subract 2, but he is a year older now to, so I have to get used to that.
I am going to make myself the cake that was on the cover of October's Country Living magazine- I can't wait! yum.

as your birthday treat to me, dear readers, I would love for everyone who reads this to leave me a comment, so I can know who is out there! those of you who don't know how, just click on comments, then click the anonymous button, and comment away! I am excited to see who all is out there! thanks!