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Jan 17 2009
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my 26th birthday, paintball

Paintball-A-Palooza

My birthday falls three days after Christmas and every year it is hard to get my pals together but usually we do something fun to celebrate. This year just did not work out. With Christmas parties, new years parties and the girls getting sick, we were just all a little overwhelmed. My parents came and celebrated with me on the day and bj’s parents let us get out but I still wanted to do something fun.

So this past weekend we got to go play paintball and it was so much fun. Many of us had never played before and were a little skittish of the pain that would be felt from getting hit. After the first couple of hits, we all got over it and had a blast. I must say today though that my bruises look hideous and are very tender to the touch!
It was fun to try something new though and I had a great time with my friends. Thanks guys!!!

The whole gang after our pizza lunch (I scheduled my party before our diet. BJ and I did good though, we only ate two little pizza slices and then had salad and water!)
This is Philip shooting BJ before he shoots me…what a friend 😉 (all the husbands were out for their wives. How rude!)

Here is BJ trying to get some cover from the fire

Billy…one of the veteran paintballers….he had me worried going into it. He was a die hard, rolling, diving and nailing us.

Me and Alexis, we may look tough, we were scared 🙂

All of the eligible paintball participants. ( 4 of my friends were pregnant this year and were unable to come or play…bake those babies, mama’s)

What a friend! Tara was not as enthusiastic about getting shot at as most of us, but she was such a sport. Thanks for trying something new! I won’t put you through that torture again, I promise 😉

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Dec 29 2008
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my 26th birthday

Another great year!

Yesterday I woke up to my loving hub and Hayden singing Happy Birthday to me! It was so sweet. They had already gone to the store that morning and brought me some beautiful flowers, cards and breakfast! Yummy pankcakes, eggs, biscuits and chocolate milk. Yum. We ate and opened my cards where I discovered an itunes gift card (always awesome to get new music) and a new laptop of my choice! I’ve been wanting one for a while and now my computer is getting older and older and its nearing its end. So that was a great gift!

Me with Ella and Hayden

Ella had been running fever the night before with a bad stomach bug so we all stayed home and my parents brought us lunch from Olive Garden and gave me a new running shirt, a bluetooth, and a stamp with a hummingbird (love it). Then we ate some yummy cake that Hayden picked out for me. Strawberry crunch cake. She told me she was going to get me a Dora cake just like hers but decided on a different one instead.
Then we layed all the girls down and my inlaws came over and let BJ and I get out so we hit the theater and went for a double header 🙂 We saw Marley and Me and then Valkerie. Both were really good, especially Marley! Soooo reminded me of my first dog Callie.

I still have some birthday plans that are coming up but we had to put them off for a while because my birthday falls at a really hard time. So in a few weeks we are going to do what I had planned! More on that later!