My 30th birthday!!!!!

Isn't it weird how in your early twenties you think that turning 30 was the equivalent of aging beyond 80? What a load of crap! The thirties are where it's at, man. I feel like you're young enough to have a wonderful time in life but old enough to not be such an idiot with your decisions - it's truly the best of both worlds!

This being such a big birthday, I've got to document it up in here. So what the heck did I do for the big 3-0! True to form, I didn't feel like planning a dang thing until about 2 weeks beforehand. Why am I like that? Chad plans things like years in advance, I'm more like "hey our wedding is in 3 weeks, maybe I should buy a dress..." hahaha!

Anyhoo, after wracking my brain about what to do, I decided to go out for a girls morning out at Fashion Island. Due to my new "work out person" status at the time (a description I only had for about 2 weeks at that point bahaha!), I thought it would be fun to be really trendy chicks and try out a Soul Cycle class with a few of my girlfriends! My thought was, "hey, the rest of America goes to Soul Cycle and gets through the classes feeling like super heroes, surely we can handle a little ol' 45 minute spin extravaganza and then be okay to go to brunch after."

THAT. CLASS. WAS. SO. DANG. HARD. I. ALMOST. DIED! How, HOW, do people look so casual on social media after taking that death class?!?!? After 45 minutes of DYING upon my bike, flabbergasted by the droves of people around me who were keeping up with my unicorn of an instructor who I couldn't take my eyes off of (was she real?), I stumbled off, barely able to see straight hahahahaha! PEOPLE, THOSE CLASSES ARE SO HARD!!!!!! The hilarious thing was that because my birthday is in January, they were having a special going on where you could buy one class and then get two as long as you use the second one within 30 days - none of us redeemed the second class hahahaha - I REPEAT, WE DIED.

Anyhoo! After class, we all tried to decide if we were going to take advantage of the studio's showers before heading off to brunch at Fig and Olive. I decided that I wouldn't shower - this is 30. Bahaha! I just changed into some cute boots and a top and we headed out. The majority of the group drove over to the restaurant while my friend Kristy and I walked over - we were in this hilarious daze!

Anyway, we all sat down at brunch (I repeat, with shaky vision), red-faced and ready to chow down! My sister joined us at that point (she was very pregnant so no Soul Cycle for her). She looked fresh as a daisy, we were all still sweating baha!

It was my first time going to that lovely restaurant, it took me by surprise how nice it was!!! GORGEOUS. There were two bridal showers happening while we were there - each chick looked like they had planned their get-ups for months beforehand. So yes it was very wonderful!!!!! I want to go back when I'm not in the throes of almost puking hahaha!

Honestly it was a great birthday celebration and exactly what I wanted: something that was out of the house, adult, and during the day (as opposed to late at night. I was still needing extreme amounts of sleep after the 15 months of waking up with Gracie). Chad was a little weirded out that my plans for such a big birthday didn't include him (sorry my love!), but it was mainly because I really never go out with just the girls, so I figured I would start off my new decade of life doing just that. I think at one point I even said to Chad, "wait so the entire universe gets to have all of these 'girl days' except for me?" He was like, "chill out, I'm just asking if you want me to go, that's all," hahaha! Clearly I was still very sleep deprived and in need of some fresh, beachy air!

On my actual birthday night, which was a Tuesday, we loaded the kids up in the car, headed to Huntington Beach so Chad's mom could watch them, and then the two of us went to Pac City for a little dinner. Although it was all good, the effort was so strenuous that we could have just stayed home and I would have been just fine. The service at the restaurant we went to was HORRIBLE, so that made me question why we even made it happen at all. Oh well though!!! Still cool!

Anyhoo, 30 it is! What a great time in life!