29!

I woke up this morning, the day of my 29th birthday, to an empty house! Monte has spent yesterday and today shingling his parents' house. This is the weekend of our church's mother/daughter banquet that I have been planning and preparing for the last year, which meant I had to be at church at 8:30 this morning to start decorating, and the decorating is best done childless. Four hours of decorating down today, five more hours of decorating tomorrow. So Isabella went with Daddy yesterday to go stay at grandma and grandpa's house. In fact, he was leaving for their house right after an appointment he had for work, so as he said, it was also "take your daughter to work day" for him! She was, once again, ridiculously excited to go, she even refused breakfast, saying, "no, I just want to go to Mama's house". She was just there last week for a few days, which although I missed her, it was nice to have some time to myself and get a lot done. But this time, I REALLY missed her, I had all this time to myself yesterday, and I ended up just kind of moping around, wishing she was here. I did make it to First Friday last night at church, though. This evening I will be meeting them on their way home for a birthday meal (can't decide where I want to eat though), and then I'm hoping Monte and I can watch a movie after Isabella goes to bed. Since he's not here for most of today, he wanted to give me my present early. He got me a Dairy Queen ice cream cake, YUM!! I haven't had one in years, since he couldn't have dairy, but now that he can we're all over stuff like that! I ended up losing 12 pounds during lent, but with all this ice cream and cheesy, creamy meals I've been making, it's only a matter of time before I put that back on. Why is it I had an insane amount of willpower during lent, and now, nothing! Anyway, he got me an MP3 / video, etc. player (basically a much more reasonable form of an IPod). It was something I have been wanting, mostly for when I run, but now my age is really showing because the thing is foreign to me! I think after WAY too many hours of trying to figure it out, downloading and transferring music, etc. I finally have it figured out, I hope. Monte said if Isabella was a few years older she would probably be able to teach me all about it!