Thirty!

 ya... so I turned 30 today! Right now actually... I was born at 6:09 am -

 thirty years ago today.

This year I have had a few friends turn 30 also and a couple of them have done a cute little post about who they are, and I am going to do the same. I think it is such a great idea! How awesome for future generation to have. What I wouldn't give to have a little snippet of my great-grandmothers life when she was 30.
So I had my awesome cousin Nikaela take some pictures of me last weekend (it felt a little weird, I won't lie - kinda like I was taking senior pictures!) so future generations will even know what I look like at 30!

 My occupation is Wife & Mother, in that order. Although sometimes I think I forget about the order.

I have been married to my best friend Dan for 11 and 1/2 years!

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I have 4 wonderful children!

-Ryleigh ~13

-Spencer ~10

-Ethan ~ 8

-Olivia ~ 3

They keep me insanely busy. Ryleigh is very social and plays softball. This year in particular she has been playing non-stop since September with Fall-ball, Jr. High softball and now Spring-ball. Spencer is on a club baseball team which occupies most weekends and a few nights a week. Plus he and Ethan are on the same Minors little league team - so ya - I am knee waist neck deep in baseball and love every minute of it. Of course I love it more when we are winning!

I am not really a hobby person but there are things that I enjoy. I really love to cook and lately I have started to love baking. I love to eat too - so all of these work nicely together.

As a result I go to the gym. I do not enjoy the gym.

I love sports! Baseball (duh!) and football are my favorites - basketball is my least favorite - okay I hate it. It is for pansies. I really really really love college sports. The intensity is awesome.

My favorite color is Purple! Always has been - and I think it always will be. The irony of that is - I only own 1 purple shirt (that I rarely wear) and I don't decorate with purple either. But I do love it! I promise. My least favorite color is blue. I think it is because it is overused.

I have a little OCD - just a little. I am not a compulsive hand washer or anything like that but when I vacuum I have to have nice straight lines and I get irritated with my kids when they feel the need to run around in circles in the middle of a beautiful freshly vacuumed floor. I also don't really know how to just sorta clean. I can't just do a quick pick up. I have to pick up, sweep, mop, dust, wash the windows, scrub the baseboards (okay, I don't always scrub the baseboards.). It really irritates my husband. He tells me they are all "side-projects" and I "need to just focus at the task at hand" - so maybe it's just ADD.

I have 6 siblings! I love them all, however I am pretty much the suckiest person ever about keeping in touch with them. All of them, but one, live in Oregon so we don't see each other and I don't enjoy talking on the phone. I can count on one hand the number of times we have chatted via webcam even. wow. I really suck.

I married into 5 siblings, 1 half sibling and 6 step-siblings. Most of them live close by, so I am better at keeping in touch.

Speaking of living.... In my married life I have lived in 4 states. Arizona, North Carolina, Texas & Oregon. There are parts that I love and parts that I don't love about all of these states. But Arizona is home, and I am hoping that it always will be. Unless it gets sucked into Mexico or something. I just love the weather! Yes, 115* in July is hot and ridiculous but I love it - I would rather be in that than -20* and snow. Or 50* and rain for 10 months out of the year (wink wink to my Oregon family).

Alright, this post is officially long a boring so I will end it here - adios!

Happy Birthday too me! Here's to thirty more amazing years!