Bring on the 30's!

If the rest of the 30's go the way my 30th birthday went, I'm ready for some great years ahead of me! I should have posted about this awhile ago, but September has just been a crazy month.

My birthday started out great & just kept getting better! Both of my college roommates were in town because another one of our college friends got married in SF that weekend. Alisa has two kids the same ages as my kids. She stayed in the south bay with her husband's family. Caron flew out the night before my birthday to spend a few days with me.

The morning of my birthday Caron & I dropped Ava off at my friend's house & Caron, Alexa & I headed up to the Napa Valley to meet Alisa & her family for an afternoon of wine tasting. It was the perfect afternoon with a perfect picnic lunch.


We got back just in time for my wonderful husband to come home with these beautiful flowers for me.
Then we all quickly got ready, got the girls settled in with a babysitter for the evening and took off for my birthday dinner at my favorite pizza place. We had a fairly large group of 20 people show up. I felt so loved. I was shocked at the amount of gifts that I got. Two of my best friends from my mom's group gave me granny panties & denture cream to welcome me into "old age." They also gave me a fancy shmancy crock pot that I've been drooling over. Yep, I'm definitely 30 now!

After dinner, most of the mom's group took off, but the rest of us went out to a bar in Walnut Creek. Our friend Aaron was also in town for the wedding, so he took the train out from the city & Alisa left her kiddos with her husband & came out as well. It was a reunion of college friends, along with friends from different parts of my life.

I wasn't to thrilled with the fact that the second we got to the bar each group of my friends started in with their "remember when Liz got drunk" stories. It was quite funny, especially since I'm not really a huge drinker.

The Cornell Crew

We got home around 2am. I haven't been out that late since long before I had Ava. It was such an amazing start to the next decade!