One Year Older

My roomates surprised me when I got home from work.

The Yummy Fruit Tart we had! Yum!!

Well, on October 24, 2007, I (Christy) became one year older. Now I am a young (yep still young), wiser, more experienced 26 year old. But wow, do I ever have more learning and growing to do! =) My birthday was more of a week long celebration, which was very nice. I was surprised on Monday morning. I came in for work at the clinic to find my coworkers singing "Happy Birthday," and cinnamon rolls for breakfast (yumm!). Then at lunch time they took me out to Olive Garden. It was a day that was very sweet (between the cinnamon rolls and chocolate cake at Olive Garden...I think I need to run more miles!).

On my actually birth-day, I worked at the hospital, which was a nice day. The special thing there was one of my patients an 84 year-old male, who in the morning thought he was a doctor and was roaming the halls because he thought he needed to go to work (yes, he was very confused). Well, he sang Happy Birthday to me. The sweetest thing was when he got to the part with my name, he sang this: "Happy Birthday, whatever your name is, Happy Birthday to you!" And boy did he sing it with all gusto. This act of song was brought on by his daughter who had said, "Dad, did you know it's your nurses birthday today?" (She had overheard someone wishing me happy birthday in the hallway). So that patient definitely made me smile. After work, I was able to be treated to dinner by some of my co-workers. It was a nice to relax. Then when I got home around 9:30pm that night, I opened our apartment door to all my roommates and Tobin wearing Happy birthday hats and singing again! Then I opened a couple wonderful gifts from Tobin and my sister, and we had this Fruit Cream Pie...Yum!!!!

I definitely have felt very loved. Thank you all for you birthday wishes, phone calls, text messages, emails, etc. Man, there are so many great ways to keep in touch these days!

Now on to the next milestone....packing and moving to Oregon in one month! We'll keep you posted. =)