So I am now officially 30. And you know what? I love being 30! 30 feels so right. I kept telling people at my birthday dinner that I felt like I was a "real mummy" now. It just seems the right age to reflect where I am right now in my life - so so happily married and settled, with 3 adorable small children and I am even looking better then ever I reckon.
Of course, when I said that lots of my slightly older friends giggled at me - they think 30 is young! But I assured them that I don't actually feel like they are "older" then me at all, they are my friends and my peers - but I feel like I can join their awesomeness status slightly by reaching this next decade of my life, even if they are a decade ahead of me still!
I had such a wonderful evening celebrating with 50 of my friends and family. I felt warm fuzzys all over as I 'worked the room'! There is nothing quite so wonderful as looking around a room that is jam packed of people who are all there for you, to be with you and to celebrate with you. I loved that everywhere I turned, I was greeted with a smile and a warm conversation. Over the last few years, I seem to have managed to collect myself the most AMAZING people in my life - the kind of friends that are so genuine and caring that I would be grateful to have just a handful of them in my life...yet somehow I got way more than my share of these people!
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| Me and my girls |
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| My friend Rach did my hair for me, so I did Jaimee's similar |
The original plan had been to have a huge dance party - I had booked a hall and invited about 180 people along, but I didn't realise that I had picked a long weekend in wedding season, and many people couldn't make it. So I put off the dance until next year, when we plan on doing a huge shindig for our 10 year wedding anniversary - I would rather have a full dance floor, so that was ok by me! Dinner was yummy and we had the whole restaurant to ourselves. The kids were on their best behaviour and I didn't have to deal with them once. Luke didn't sleep or feed, but he was quite happy being cuddled.
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| working the room! |
I decided that since I wasn't having a dance, we needed some form of entertainment, so I took along a few photo albums from before I got married. Everyone had a good giggle checking out my perm and big glasses and seeing some of my life events for the first time. I got lots of comments on how like me my children are, and how young my parents look (this bodes very well for me in the future - the pretty young waitress said she hopes she looks like me at 30...awwww)
In a nutshell here's a little of what happened over the last 10 years: I have got married, I got a degree, I moved regions, we purchased 2 houses, had 3 children, and collected 6 pets. So I am really looking forward to seeing what God brings me in the next 10 years - the last 10 have been so exciting!
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| family |
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| A full restaurant of great people |
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| Chatting with friends and mentors |
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| Me and my mum |
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| With my best friend Vicki-Lee |
So I am now officially 30. And you know what? I love being 30! 30 feels so right. I kept telling people at my birthday dinner that I felt like I was a "real mummy" now. It just seems the right age to reflect where I am right now in my life - so so happily married and settled, with 3 adorable small children and I am even looking better then ever I reckon. 
I had such a wonderful evening celebrating with 50 of my friends and family. I felt warm fuzzys all over as I 'worked the room'! There is nothing quite so wonderful as looking around a room that is jam packed of people who are all there for you, to be with you and to celebrate with you. I loved that everywhere I turned, I was greeted with a smile and a warm conversation. Over the last few years, I seem to have managed to collect myself the most AMAZING people in my life - the kind of friends that are so genuine and caring that I would be grateful to have just a handful of them in my life...yet somehow I got way more than my share of these people! 
The original plan had been to have a huge dance party - I had booked a hall and invited about 180 people along, but I didn't realise that I had picked a long weekend in wedding season, and many people couldn't make it. So I put off the dance until next year, when we plan on doing a huge shindig for our 10 year wedding anniversary - I would rather have a full dance floor, so that was ok by me! Dinner was yummy and we had the whole restaurant to ourselves. The kids were on their best behaviour and I didn't have to deal with them once. Luke didn't sleep or feed, but he was quite happy being cuddled.
so stink to have missed this Nikki. It looked like a lovely night. That photo of you and Vikki Lee is stunning. Definatly one for the pool room! :)
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