Vast Improvement

So I recently turned 30, and reflecting back to my last birthday with a zero in the age, 30 was a vast improvement.

Me 30 years ago!

I say this, because All I remember doing for My 20th birthday was that my sister, and my two best friends Tiffany and Colleen, came over at an ungodly hour, of I'd say 6:30am, woke me up, blindfolded me, and put me into the car and drove to an undisclosed location. The Location was a local coffee shop for breakfast, In my Jammies, no make-up, no hair done. The only thing I was allowed to put on was shoes. Now I am sorry to say there is a picture of this event, but I could not locate it. Believe me I tried.

Joel and I on my 25th Birthday in 2006 (top) and on my 30th birthday 2011.
If I may say on my 25th birthday we had gone to a friends Kegger Party (our first and only), and I was slightly inebriated, not Joel.

So back to my most recent Birthday. So Tommy slept from 10pm 'til 5:30am, then went right back to sleep until 8:30am, (Phillip was at his Grandma's house), so right off the bat the day started out good. Then Joel and I went to Birch bay for Breakfast. We sat and enjoyed a quiet meal over looking the Low Tide. Then We went to the Beauty shop. Where we did a trade off, My mom was there with Phil. She and I were had our hair done, and Joel took Phillip ( I should Mention that my mom and I have birthday's 3 days apart, so we were celebrating hers as well).

Later that evening We all went down to Seattle to enjoy a wonderful meal with our family (minus Older Kiddos) at Sazerak. The food was So Yummy and such a wonderful time. We opened Presents. Then the three Girls, My Mom, sister Maran and I went off to Key arena to See Josh Groban in Concert!! We got there a few minutes late and missed some of the Opener. Then there came an intermission, and Maran and I quickly Jetted to the ladies room. Mom Decided not to go, cause her feet hurt and she didn't want to walk that far. We got back to our seats and told Mom that the Ladies room was really close, just around the corner, So she decided to go. While she was gone My sister and I just sat in our seats, the seats were very high up (almost nose bleed), and there were several Empty seats around us. All of the sudden some gentlemen with the Arena came over and asked Maran and I if we were the only ones in our party? We replied "no there was one more, she was in the restroom". They then asked if we wanted to move down on the floor, in front of the Piano. At this point I started to Hyperventilate. We quickly responded Yes, and were given tickets to sit on the floor.

Me, Maran and Mom in 2001 (top) and Mom, Me and Maran in 2011

Our seats were at the back of the floor section right in front of the mini stage Josh played on when he came out. He played several songs out on this stage and we were like 20 feet away from Josh. Way too Cool!!!

The Night was so amazing. Alas the concert ended and then it was time for the long drive home.

Note: I am sorry I have no pictures from the concert. they are all on my Phone and I not very good. Sorry, if I had A) known I could bring my camera and B) known I would have had awesome seats, I would have brought it.