The One with My Golden Birthday!


Tuesday, May 28, 2013

I'm 28 years old today! 
Or, as I like to say, 28 years young :)
It also just so happens to be my GOLDEN birthday, meaning, I'm 28 on the 28th! 
We're not doing much in the way of excitement today, maybe going out to lunch and/or dinner, and I've gotta get some scrappy things done, but then on Thursday and Friday Chris and I are leaving the kids with my parents, their grandparents, and we're taking a jaunt up to Vancouver, Canada to do a session through the temple, go to the Chinese gardens, and go on the Grouse Mountain Skyride (which is where part of the X-Files episode Ascension was filmed :) - see, I can still get my "Hollywood" kicks and jollies even when we don't live in California anymore! 

Looking back on my 27th year of life, it was a pretty amazing year. 
We got into Disneyland an hour early and went on 20 rides in 4 hours!
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We went up to Big Bear with the Bybees for a fun over-nighter.
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Erica threw me a wonderful baby shower!
We went to the Los Angeles Zoo
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We watched the annual 4th of July Parade down Mission Street in South Pasadena. 
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We saw a Wendy's commercial filmed at our neighbor's house and then thought it was so flippin' exciting when the commercial was shown on TV. 
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I started Operation Weight Loss. These are BEFORE pictures. On 8.14.12 I was 165 pounds. Today, 5.28.13, I weigh 133. It's been a long and hard journey, and it's still on-going, but I feel great!
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Here's me TODAY. I'm sitting down so you can't quite see the entire change, but it'll do for now.
When Jane was just 2 weeks old we drove all the way up to Oregon for the annual Evans family reunion. I'm glad we went, it was a blast. 
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I expanded my Etsy shop (which is currently closed until we move to Germany and get all our stuff) to include over 4 dozen styles of pacifier clips. 
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Fox turned 2 and we threw him a Buzz-themed birthday party!
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I flew to Washington with the kids by myself for 9 whole days of fun. 
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We went trick-or-treating in the best neighborhood in the world. 
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We went to Indio, again, with the Bybees, again. 
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I went to the final Twilight movie with a bunch of awesome girlies. 
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We spent Thanksgiving at home and Chris made the most delicious dinner of them all. 
We got our annual Christmas photos taken at Newport Beach by the talented Jill Facer
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I reached 1400 blog posts and had a giveaway to celebrate!
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I planned and put together a Christmas party for our Relief Society
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I helped plan and put together the Christmas party for our entire ward
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A dream of mine came true when I was asked to be a Garden Girl for twopeasinabucket.com.
I went to my 6th winter CHA in Anaheim and got to meet and re-meet lots of lovely scrappers. 
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I went to a screening of Safe Haven for a fun GNO. 
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We found a couple of the Modern Family houses
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We tried a delicious new burger joint called Slater's 50/50
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I went to a taping of Ellen and later saw myself on TV. 
We sat on the 500 Days of Summer bench
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We went on Angels Flight Railway
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We did a session through the San Diego temple
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We went with the Bybees to the San Diego Zoo.
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I went with my mom, SIL Tanya, and Jane to Allie's bridal shower in Vegas. Hopefully many more girls trips to come!
We found out we'll be moving to Germany in July!
I went to a The Host book signing with Stephenie Meyer and a few of the actors from the movie. 
We did the WB VIP Studio Tour and sat on THE Friends couch!
I went on a GNO to The Voice premier!
We went to the beach for an Academy of LDS Dentists bonfire
I played a fun April Fool's Day joke and said I was done scrapbooking :)
I made lots of books, including Allie and Tori's wedding sign-in books.
We went to Washington for my little sister's wedding and festivities. 
We went to the Pawn Stars pawn shop in Las Vegas. 
We did a session through the Las Vegas temple
I worked at a baby shower at the Bel-Air Hotel. I worked at many events over the year, and I just blogged about 'em all, so I picked this one as a re-cap.
My 10th cousin was born. 
We celebrated our 6th anniversary!
I celebrated my 3rd Mother's Day!
We finally went to the Venice Canals
We moved from our beloved apartment to live with my parents for a few weeks before our big move to Germany. 
Me on my 28th birthday.
If 27 was such an amazing year, I can't wait to see what 28 has in store!

30 comments

  1. Wow, what a year :-)! Happy Birthday Paige and welcome to Germany in July :-)!

    Greetings from Berlin, Germany
    Janine

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  2. happiest birthday wishes, paige! i wish you all the best for a smooth move to germany and an awesome year ahead! :) *

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  3. Happy happy birthday!! you´ve had a amazing year.
    I´m from spain and I like your books and LO, you´re a great scrapper.
    Kisses.
    Ana.

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  4. Happy Birthday! We went to Vancouver on our honeymoon & we loved the Capilano Suspension Bridge. Its awesome & only 5 minutes from the Skyride. If you have time, you should totally go!

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  5. wow that is an amazing year, and I have remember all of it from your blog...ha! Happy Birthday to you, such a sweet person, enjoy your day!

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  6. Congratualtions and happy birthday!! May you have as much fun in Germany!! :)

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  7. happy birthday! what a year. you look so pretty in your bday pictures too!

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  8. Happy Birthday! First of all, wow! You are gorgeous! I sure am lucky to be married to you! Thanks for being so motivated to get out and really see LA. It made our time there much more memorable and we have such great memories to look back on. I can't wait to spend the next year with you and explore our new home with the same gusto. Love you!

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  9. Happy birthday! I thought I'd take this chance to send you some love - I adore your layouts and your blog! Also, I think it's a funny coincidence that I also turned 28 this month, AND I have a 2.5 year old son and a 4 month old daughter... Hope you had a great day today!

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  10. What a wonderful year! I've loved being a part of it via your blog ;)
    Happy birthday wishes!

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  11. What a great re-cap!! Happy BIRTHDAY!!!

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  12. WOW! What a fantastic year. Hope 28 is even better than 27!

    And sorry I put you to work on your birthday!! At least you'll have an amazing work-free weekend coming up!

    XO

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  13. Happy birthday Paige!! Maybe another baby at 28?? ;)

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  14. Happy Birthday! You have such an eventful life!

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  15. PAIGE HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! That is so awesome you travel so much!!! I love it! Did you really go to NYC to sit on the Friends couch? Cool!

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  16. You should visit Cousin Megan when you're in Vancouver.

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  17. Happy birthday, you've certainly had an amazing year!

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  18. What an awesome year! Can't wait to see what is in store for you next year!

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  19. Happy day to you! Amazing year & here's to many more! =)

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  20. Happy Birthday! You did a lot in a year!

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  21. Happy Birthday Paige. What an awesome year :) to many more.

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  22. Amazing year! Happy birthday :)

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  23. SUPER fun recap Paige--hope your day was MOST fabulous!!

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  24. Happy Birthday. My oldest turned 11 on the 28th ;)
    -blessings

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  25. Woo! Can't wait to see the recap from your 28th year!! So many fun and exciting things ahead!! :)

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  26. What a great year!! Those were some fun trips. :)

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