Surprise!

This year, I turned 30.  A milestone birthday, but it wasn't as difficult for me as 25, I guess because of where I am in life.  I'm very happy being the wife of a resident, the mother to two beautiful girls,  a daughter and friend to my parents and in-laws, and a friend with so many wonderful people.

Stephen got many of those wonderful people together and surprised me on Saturday night.  He told me we were going out to celebrate my birthday...when we arrived at the restaurant 16 of my closest friends were there!  What a surprise!

Craig & Jenna, Cheryl & Chris, Lily Kate & I

Meredith & Clint, Meera & Max, Kim, Shivani & Paras

The festivities continued on Sunday.  December 5th is my mother-in-law's birthday.  So we (with a surprise visit from Rachie & Unca) met at Maggiano's after church.  Happy Birthday, JaJa!

Jill, Lily Kate and I

Rachel, Jonathan, and Steve

Aubrey in her sparkly silver outfit (Lily Kate wore this outfit when we ate at Maggiano's 2 years ago to celebrate our birthdays!)

*Stephen planned this amazing weekend (with some help from Cheryl) but I didn't get a good photo of him!  Terrible news!