KIMBERLY'S 30TH BIRTHDAY

On one’s Birthday, There is a tradition in our house--to make a Birthday sign, and hang it in the house for everyone to see. Usually this has been done by taking 8.5” x 11” sheets of paper, and writing one letter for each sheet. Then stacking them side by side to spell out HAPPY BIRTHDAY! My parents did this for us in Placentia, and I have done this with our family, since Kimberly and I got married.

Well being that we have a Vinyl Sign Plotter, I did what any normal husband would do! I took the Birthday sign to the next level. I figure I will keep it up for a couple days, just to show off my 30 something wife to everyone.
Kimberly has been depressed about turning 30. I keep telling her, I always wanted to date a 30 year old! I think this is going to be great. I figure when your forty, you will wish you were 30, so why not live it up now.

Driving around this morning, looking for a Birthday present. I started to think about past presents I gave Kimberly. The first Birthday I spent with her in 1995, I got her a beautiful ring. I saved up three months salary to buy this beautiful ring. I researched the Gem for October, it happens to be pink (her favorite color). I had the Gem cut into a heart. Then it had little diamonds, set in a triangle on the side, all set in gold. I wrapped it in the biggest box I could find. It was actually wrapped in like 10 boxes, each one inside each other. I still remember Kimberly’s face as she opened it, she is still as beautiful today, at 30, as she was then at 18.
I wish I could take a picture and show it to you. I can’t, because this present is no longer with us. See, there is a little known tradition in Kimberly’s side of the family also. It’s a tradition of taking your very loved rings, and having your young children play with them. Sometimes they give them to their young girlfriends, and sometimes they just loose them. I have made a little drawing of what it looked like, for you all to see!

Another present I gave Kimberly was that life sized Teady Bear, Taylor named “Beary”. We almost lost him too. Taylor after drinking Fruit Punch Gatoraide, threw-up all over Beary. If it was not for rushing him down stairs, and using the high pressure hose on him, at 3 A.M. in the morning, he would have also been lost forever.

Then last year, I ,again, saved up three months salary. I bought Kimberly her favorite Shampoo & Conditioner. The Brand is Bubble and Bubble, and Kimberly loves it. I do have a picture attached, but this is a stock photo from B&B website. I could not take a picture of ours, because Taylor and Luke used all of it for Bubble bath.

So looking back on the gifts of Birthdays past, I have decided to get Kimberly something indestructable, memories for her big 3-0. We are going to Kimberly favorite restaurant ROY’S, it’s Hawaiian fusion, and SOOooooo good.

I would tell you the rest or her presents, but they are a surprise, and if I told you, I would have to kill you!. So I just wanted to wish my lovely wife a great 30th birthday today. I think she is more beautiful than the day I met her (it was in seminary our freshmen year :) .