I turned 29 last month. It’s the end of an era, really. I never really pictured myself older than my twenties, so I’m holding on to this birthday for as long as I can. Actually, because I have a weird number fetish, I think 29 is a rather ugly number, and kind of wish I could have stayed at 28. But, as we have no control over such things, I had to move on.

My wonderful awesome spouse knew of my desire to remain 20-something, and so he planned a surprise party for me, with the theme of “Forever 29.” He did a wonderful job, and I really had no clue what he was up to. Truly, he is a really bad liar and I never expected him to be able to pull something like this off.  He even got friends and family to write favorite memories of me which he put together into a little book. Much awesomeness. We had a wonderful mesh of family and friends come to enjoy the day with us, and more who participated long distance with their messages. It was so much fun!

Waiting For the Party to Start

Nick also made a large poster of me that was a collage of pictures of my growing up years all put together to make my portrait (and yes, he’s talented… but he had software to help in the process… he’s not that talented). On the bottom it had big words printed to say “Karli – Forever 29.” I’ll admit, it kind of creeped me out and seemed a little like memorial. So, I decided that even if it would be cool to be 20-something forever, I think I’ll be happy to move on, because one more birthday means one more year I have been blessed to spend with all of you wonderful people that are in my life. But I still might tell people I’m 29 for as long as I can pull it off

P.S. Here is the mosaic using the program found at http://www.andreaplanet.com/andreamosaic/

Mosaic Poster

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