June 5th, 2008 Clean slate.

A new year. A new blog design. A new Grace. Here we go.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME
I celebrated my birthday this past Sunday with the best people in the world: my family and friends. The party started early Saturday evening and we did a countdown to midnight. So much fun. I felt incredibly loved and so lucky with the people in my life. We had food cooked by my brother, an awesome guava cake, an ample supply of spirits, and Rock Band. I couldn’t have asked for more than that.

Here are a few pics from that night:

Archie, getting the party started.

Celebrating Melinda’s 30th birthday, which was the Thursday before.

With my roommates from college. We saw SATC the night before and continued the party.

Everyone playing Rock Band. It’s so freakin’ addictive.

I’m sure I’m saying something truly riveting…

The spirits. And there was more in the ice box in the garage. Oy.

And a game of Texas Hold’Em. I don’t play, but I love to watch.

Can you find birthday Grace?

A photo of just a few of the birthday cards I received. Love them all and I’m going to scrap them soon.

Thanks to my Dad for making sure I was a girl, to my Mom for doing most of the hard work, to my brother for being my hero, and to all my friends for keeping me theirs and loving me unconditionally.

CHANGES
So you like the new blog design? Goodness, there are still massive additions I need to make, but at least I got the foundation of this blog design down. There are a lot of pages that will remain under construction through the weekend, so I hope you come back to visit to see the changes.

HOME SICK
Ugh. I’ve got a head cold that I can’t shake off. So I’m sick in bed and messing around with my blog design. I need to finish a few designs tonight. Art therapy - there’s nothing quite like it.