28 BABY!!!!!!!! WAAAA FREAKING HHHOOOOOOO!!!!!
I have been looking forward to turning 28 my whole life. For some reason 28 seems so cool, you are older, not a kid anymore, not in that "learning about your new adult life out of college and building your career early 20's anymore) but not grossly old like 30 or 30+. Still cool but young. It is also the age where you could become a mom yourself and start a new generation which is BEYOND crazy to me. The most exciting part of it to me is this is baby yearrrrrr!!! 👶(Lord willing). This is the year we try for a baby (in 3+ months) and I am so pumped. I can't believe this day is finally here, I could pass out from excitement. This is the year. This is my time. 28. 2021. This is NOW!!! Let's go! Plus we get to go back to the beach for our babymoon in December (Lord willing). AAAAAND Lord willing, year 28 is also when our baby will be born in 2022 (Lord willing).
I love where I am in life, I have met and exceeded all of my high expectations for myself. I love who I am and what I stand for, I love how well I know myself and how comfortable I am. I love the life I have built through so much hard work, I love my slower but right timeline over these past 10 years. Slow and steady wins the race. And I just love everything. We are in such a comfortable place in life and all of our hard work has finally paid off and we can just enjoy.
For our birthday's this year, I planned to go tubing down the river in Gatlinburg at the end of the month and for me and Cody's birthday weekend we are going to try the new Top Golf and with family we are doing Dave N Busters where we announced that Cody is done with his masters degree (last class was July 9th, officially done July 16th).
From my 5 year anniversary post:
This is the year we will actually try for kids. I always pictured waiting for our 5th anniversary to start thinking about kids and when we turned 28. Those were the main goals to try for kids on top of being established in my career (4-5 years) before I take off to be a stay at home mom for 5-10 years, being in a house, and having our dog be 2 years old when our baby is born. We are creeping up on all of those things being perfect, we are so close. In a perfect world, I don't want to be 29 when the baby is born and I want the baby to be born before June 2nd 2022 so any time after that will be perfect but if I want to be 28 while pregnant and 28 when I give birth that gives me a 2 month window (along with the June 2nd thing) and making sure I don't suffer from another miscarriage or having trouble getting pregnant. If it is anything like last time we won't have trouble at all conceiving, it would be having a baby that survives. Oh, it is so nerve wracking. It will be perfect whatever happens, after September we will start trying. I pray pray pray this is baby year for us, I am getting so close to being ready mentally. This will also be the year I quit my job after 4+ years and become a full stay at home dog mom/wife/mom and take care of the house, and Cody and I will invest a good chunk of our savings to grow for our retirement. Also Cody will have finished his masters degree helping us financially significantly.
Next year Lord willing, our baby will be born hopefully before I am 29, and possibly before our 6th anniversary, and we will have gotten a new truck for Cody that has a back row of seats and 4 full doors. Here we are, the next biggest set of goals is among us.
Here's to freaking 28!!! Alriiiight!!!😎
To celebrate, Mom, Morgan, and Nana came down to visit and we went to the Rodeo, Dave & Busters, and played Top Golf at the new location near our house!
Starting the day off, I had mom take pictures of me with these balloons I have been saving for over 3 years. Seriously, I've been THAT excited about turning 28!
I couldn't decide which one I liked so I posted the one right above on the right on Instagram. I love pictures and my main request was a photoshoot. My mom was INCREDIBLE at it. Job well done mom!
On the left, I have my birthday's 18-28 and on the right, my 8th, 18th, and 28th birthday!
Dave & Busters fun!! I think I played Guitar Hero 6 times!
Perfect weather for the rodeo!!!
We loved having Morgan, Edgar, and sweet Maya visit the house and give Lucy a playmate to play with💓 she absolutely loved it! They got to stay until 1am!
Top Golf was AMAZING! We went here on the morning of Cody's birthday!
Then we came home and I surprised Cody with ice cream cake!!! His birthday marked the first day of Discovery Channels Shark Week for this year so I of course had to decorate with gummy sharks!
We ended the day going to Cody's parents house and as a birthday gift, Cody's mom gifted me with a sweet canvas picture of Cody as a baby!😍 I could fall over he is the cutest baby I've ever seen. I hope our son looks like him! The casts on his feet were from being born with clubbed feet just like his dad. There is a good chance our future babies may have this as well, I'll get more into that later on!
On my actual birthday day, my mom surprised me and sent flowers to my house! Aren't they so beautiful!!! What a surprise!
This has BY FAR, been the best birthday of my life!! I'm so happy!
With so much love,
Kayla Nicole Raborn
7/12/21
