my special day

I was a little um, let's say sad about turning 30. Its such a big milestone...but I'm okay with it now. In fact I've decided to embrace it... life is what you make of it, right? ;) Anyway, my sweet hubby, knowing that I was having a little bit of a hard time with this new number, left a little message for me so that my day would start out nicely. Awwww...what a good husband!

He and Ava also got me roses with a sweet card.

For my birthday dinner, we met my mom and dad at Matt's Rancho Martinez in Dallas...one of my absolute favorite places to eat!! Ava was in rare form...I think it was a combo of being excited about seeing Grammy & Poppy and being excited that it was my birthday. Okay...so maybe she was just excited about seeing Grammy and Poppy. :) Thankfully Matt's is loud...because if we had been anywhere else, they might have just thrown our amazingly loud child out.

I'm pretty sure those are knives in her hand...

This is how she felt about her dinner. She's just a little picky....hmmmm, i wonder where she gets that???

This is the DELICIOUS chocolate cake my mom made from scratch! It was awesome! Thank you Mom! Oh, and she so graciously told our server we were celebrating my birthday, so the entire wait staff sang "Happy Birthday" to me. Not embarrassing at all.

This is the best picture of us we could get... notice the tops of our heads are cut off.

Grammy + Margarita = Bad Picture Taker ;)

Aww...the fam

Thank you Aaron, Ava, Mom & Dad for helping me celebrate my 30th bday! I love you guys!