Today is my boyfriend ED’s birthday. Today he turns the ripe ol’ age of 30.

That’s right, Dirty Thirty.

Having been his girlfriend for the past seven months I know the very last thing in the world he would want for me to do is to gush any personal information about him. He is a very private person and I am, well I am a blogger.

Nuff said?

However, because it is his birthday I can not do nothing. It is my duty as a blogging girlfriend to either gush about him or embarass him. Luckily, by gushing I am able to accomplish both.

Things I love about ED:

- His 15 year old sense of humor. Sadly we are a lot alike in this area. Although recently I did have ask him to limit the amount of “your mom” jokes to under 10 per day.

- His old fashion values. ED is a country boy and he is chalk full of country boy values. He is chivalrous but believes men and women are equals. He always open the door for me and if he saw a stranded motorist, he would be the guy who would stop.

- The way he encourages and believes in me even when I don’t believe in myself. If it was not for him I may never have pushed myself any harder or further with my college education than an associates degree.

- How he likes to take care of me – mentally and physically. He listens to my rambling stories and patiently waits for me to get to the point in my long round about way and he hugs me when I cry. He keeps me healthy and active and I never go hungry when we are together.

- He has accepted me, along with all my quirks and emotional baggage, and loves me a surprisingly large amount. Sometimes I am shocked by the abnormally sweet things he does and he will ask me, “when are you going to realize just how much I love you?”

- Lastly, I love who I am with him. We have all been in those relationships where you feel like you lose yourself or you don’t like the person you are becoming. With ED I feel like I am me… but the best version of me I have yet to know.

Happy birthday baby! Here’s to being together and loving each other for a very long time, and by a very long time I mean “as far into the foreseeable future as possible”… which means forever.

Blogfully yours,

Summer

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This weekend was full of birthday celebrations.  I had a small get together with a few of my closest friends on Friday and ED had his birthday party on Saturday.

For my birthday my friends bought me some of the best presents, like wine, flasks (yes, I got 2 flasks for my birthday), flowers, jewelery, Aveda shampoo and conditioner and the book “The Portable Dorothy Parker”.

I felt absolutely spoiled!

That is, until I saw what ED’s friends got him for his birthday….

Now I’ve always thought I have some of the best friends alive, and I do, but while my friends got me objects (and lovely objects they are!), ED’s friends got him a PERSON!

I think next year I might just have to expand my invite list.

Blogfully yours,

Summer

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The clock just struck midnight and I am officially a year older.

I’ve been sitting here reflecting on birthdays and why they are such a big deal. Earlier tonight I found out that the evening plans I thought I had locked in for my birthday now have to be altered slightly. True to form, I acted like a princess on her birthday and have been pouting most of the night. It was nothing major really, but you know when you have a vision of how something is going to happen and then it doesn’t happen that way? Yeah that totally sucks…

Two quickie birthday stories to share.

My darling Mother called me a few days ago to ask what I wanted for my birthday and what I would like her to make for my birthday dinner. I told her I wanted a pink pony and lasagna for dinner.

Mom: “I can’t believe how old you are getting!”

Me: “Gee, thanks Mom.”

Mom: “No, that means I am getting that much older too.”

Me: “Again, not super helpful.”

Mom: “You know, I used to be upset about getting older. I would look in the mirror and just think ‘oh my goodness I’m so old.’ But you know what? It’s okay because everybody else is getting old too. I’m not alone and neither are you.”

I don’t know that it made me feel better, but it did give me some food for thought. After all, getting older is inevitable. Nobody is going to get any younger.

But that’s not going to stop me from trying…

Tonight my younger sister swung by to bring me some fresh basil and visited for a while. As she was about to leave we had the following conversation:

Staci: “Well I’m off. I can’t believe in a few hours you are going to be twe–”

Me: “TWENTY TWO. Yeah, I can’t believe I am going to be twenty two again either!”

Staci: “Twenty two? Why can’t you be twenty s-”

Me: “I’m turning twenty two again. You can turn twenty two again too on your birthday and we will stay that age forever.”

Staci (smiling): “OK. Sounds like a plan.”

Blogfully yours,

The Birthday girl

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It’s no secret that my domestic skills are, well, lacking. I have no food in my fridge and the when I do buy food it goes bad (by the way, yes, I did finally throw out the expired eggs in my fridge).  But somehow I have managed to survive on my own and not starve to death. Barely.

Last week ED picked me up from the airport after my trip to Chicago.  I knew he wouldn’t be able to stay long due to some other obligations. Not wanting to make him feel bad about having to leave so quickly I told him I was fine to find food on my own. To which he laughed. In an effort to prove him wrong I walked into my kitchen to show him that yes, I actually do have some food in my house… somewhere. You just have to be creative.

“Summer you are like the cousin Eddie on the Griswalds. ‘I don’t know why they call it Hamburger Helper because I’ve made it before and it tastes just fine without’. You have tuna helper but no tuna. You have Eggo waffles but no syrup. Honey you don’t even have milk! Please, let me order us some Chinese food?”

To which I broke down and bawled, not because he kept comparing me to Cousin Eddie (who apparently makes his own ketchup too), but because he cares enough to put off pressing plans to make sure I don’t die of hunger.

If that ain’t love then I don’t know what is.

Blogfully yours,

Summer

PS – If you are not familiar with Cousin Eddie click HERE.

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Sometimes a girl needs a break, even when it is not the smartest thing to do.

I spent most of Sunday studying for my math final, but truthfully, there is only so much studying I can take so I decided to take a break and go for a hike instead.

One of the perks of living in Salt Lake City is you can be to most of the major hiking trails in 20 to 30 minutes. So I filled my hiking pack with some water, grabbed a granola bar and was off!

I ended up going up Big Cottonwood Canyon to the Mill B North Fork trail.

I can’t say I fully recommend this hike. Well, unless you enjoy hiking up vertical patches of lose slate gravel, in which case you would LOVE this hike! I swear I’ve never butt scooted and monkey climbed so much while hiking. So I’ll just say, hike it at your own risk.

Utah has so many hiking trails to offer and while I’ll not be returning to this particular one any time soon, it was the perfect way to put off studying for a few more hours and I’m glad I did.

Math final is Monday afternoon then I am out on summer break for three weeks! Freedom is nearly mine!

YAY!

Blogfully yours,

Summer

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