Magical Birthday!

Today is my magic birthday. Apparently I made up this concept, no one else seems to get it. Ever since I was really young, maybe 10 or whenever I started to do simple math, I started counting how long it would be until certain ages. For instance, I assumed I would be married with at least 2 kids by the time I was 30-35, so I would calculate what year that would be in, etc.

More importantly, I always knew that in 2011 I would be 28 years old, on the 28th of April.

Not everyone gets to expereince their "magic" birthday. C's birthday is on the 4th of November, so his was when he was 4. Know what I mean?

I guess I just figured that this year would be special becuase it was so unique.

Yes...I'm weird...whatever :)

In case you are interested, a couple other reasons why this birthday is special: I was actually born on a Thursday and today is a Thursday! I'm also, 8w2d PG today, which if you swap it is 28!

So this year, for my birthday, I asked for my front yard to be finished. I've been living with a pile of dirt and weeds for over a year know. C and I got carried away and decided to rip out the front yard and never finished it.

Here are some progress pictures of what he has been doing! So sweet!

Instead of using harmful chemicals to get rid of the weeds, he used this technique of spreading out a few layers of newspaper to block out the sun and keep the weeds from returning:



He then covered the newspapers with new soil:



Here is the sod, which is freaking awesome looking!! One of the next steps is to lay a brick walkway up to the stairs:




This weekend we'll be checking out some plants and trees! So exciting! Best birthday present EVER!

BTW, since I never did an updated "fence" post, you can see in the picture here that C did build the gate! So pretty!