The Hamblin Biking Bunch!: My Birthday (May 5) The Big 3-0

As I said in my last post, I am slowly catching up on old events and so after Trevor's birthday we had our 10th Anniversary, Todd's birthday and my 30th birthday all within 2 weeks. Sadly we didn't take any pictures of Todd's birthday or our 10th Anniversary. We actually celebrated our ann. a few weeks later anyways (I'll share about that later). I was pretty sick the whole week before my birthday and so we weren't really sure that we would be doing anything to celebrate. I don't really care if it's a 'me day', I just care that we at least do something and not just let the day go by because it is like a holiday and my whole thing with holidays is that we need them because if we didn't then the whole year would be plain and boring. We need things to look forward to, to be excited about and plan for. It makes all the regular days worth it. So the day before my big 30 was here and I started feeling quite a bit better. So I decided that the thing I wanted more then anything for my birthday was to be able to just have fun and relax with my family. For me, turning 30 wasn't depressing, it was more a realization about how blessed I am and how in love I am with my amazing husband and kids. I decided that I wanted to spend the night in a hotel even if it wasn't far and that I wanted to play with my kids. We remembered this hotel that we'd seen often as we've driven up to the airport, that's just off the freeway near West Valley. I know, what a dream place to celebrate a birthday. But the reason this hotel stood out was the fact that it had a water slide on the outside that was for an indoor pool. So we packed up and headed up. It was at a Holiday in and it was AWESOME!!! We wanted to swim right when we got there and it was a blast. They have an indoor pool with a playground in it, a hot tub, a basketball hoop, and a water slide that starts and ends indoors but winds outdoors. Then after the kids went to sleep, Todd gave me some scottchmellows from See's for a present. We always hide them from the kids because of course they want them but they don't appreciate them like we do. So we sat up watching a show and eating chocolates. Then that morning, the hotel had a yummy hot continental breakfast. It was seriously really good and since we have 4 boys to feed, it was a big money savor :) I loved the fact that I didn't have to make anything or clean up anything. Then we went back to the pool because we signed up for a late check-out and we didn't have to leave until 2:00. From there we went over to day break, did some wondering and shopping and bike ridding. Then headed home to finish of the celebrations with a pinata. Todd has traditionally been making me hit a pinata every year on my birthday since it's also Cinco de Mayo. This year I had the kids do most of the hitting though :) It was a PERFECT way to spend my birthday. We've decided to make this a tradition since it went so well.