28th Birthday: Celebrating Where I've Been and Where I'm Going!!

I love birthdays. It's "my day" whether I spend it relaxing or doing something big! I love celebrating the start of another year of life and reflecting on the last one. I think age should boosted about! (I also hope to always feel this way beyond 28!! I hope to celebrate 40, 50, 60 and "better"). Getting older is a blessing, feeling "older" is a choice. 

This past year has been adventurous.

At age 27 ......

I underwent my most challenging year working as a Speech Pathologist yet and survived!

Traveled to Guam to visit my dad 

Wine tasted locally (and on some wine walks!)

Got TWO ipads to implement with my students

Attended my first San Francisco Broadway Show...The Lion King

Had my mom visit me in California

Spent Christmas in Oregon with family

Traveled to Vegas with my husband

Got snowed in at my aunt's in Mt. Shasta....TWICE

Found new hiking spots! 

Ran my first half marathon with friends in Eugene, Oregon

Bought a new car. First car we've owned not from the 90s!

Got a Dexcom Continuous Glucose Monitor

Attended a "Take Control Of Your Diabetes" Conference and made new friends

Took my students to Great America

Celebrated our 9th family reunion in Iowa

Moved in to a home!

AND went on a "babymoon" to Kauai, Hawaii BECAUSE on a special day in May I found out that my husband and I are expecting our first baby!!! I'm currently 13.5 weeks pregnant. Baby Barrett is due February 7th, 2014!! Here comes the best adventure and life challenge yet! 

A huge part of starting this blog was actually to be able to share this experience when it happened. I looked frequently for blogs about type 1 diabetes and pregnancy when I decided I was ready to start preparing. Now that I've been information loading for months I have lots of resources. I want to share my experience as well. The updates will be very type 1 related! I have been drafting posts about pre-planning for pregnancy and my experience the first trimester. I will be posting them soon!