Happy 25th Birthday Leah!

Hailey’s absolute favourite person to talk to on the phone is Leah. If she grabs the phone and you ask her who she is talking to the answer will be Leah 90% of the time. So in honour of Leah’s birthday I let Hailey call Leah, they gabbed for a bit and Hailey told her about snowmen and then I heard beeping and realized that one of them had hung up. So I’m not sure how long the conversation was, but I’m confident they both loved it.

We all wish you a Happy Birthday Leah, but here it is in Hailey form.

I think we are all (minus Leah) still in vacation mode because we missed wishing Erica a big Happy Birthday!

Erica recently announced her pregnancy on the blog and we are all so excited for her and Denis! They will be amazing parents to another cute blonde baby.

Before you all knew this wonderful news, and when I was still pregnant, Erica and I got to take a sisters pregnancy picture!

Love you big sister!

She was already an amazing mom with one…with the upgrade to 2, she has officially achieved the status of Super Mom. Of course, being a Super Mom is not what defines her. She is also a thoughtful and generous sister and friend, among many other things!

Happy Birthday Kate! We hope you have had a lovely day (and we’re happy to hear that you are getting a double stroller very soon! You deserve it!).

Birthday Season has officially started on the Blonde blog! Last Thursday (June 9) we celebrated lovely Lauren who is now 22! Happy birthday Lauren It seems like just yesterday she was still our ‘baby’ sister who mom spoiled when the rest of us girls were at school. Now she’s all grown up. Lauren is lucky enough to share a birthday with our Opa (mom’s dad), who turned 80 on the same day! We had a family golf game and dinner at our golf course to celebrate the big birthday and had tons of fun!

Note from Lauren: In case you were wondering, this is what I did on my last day of being 21:  (nice shorts tan, eh?)  Casey was bathing with me, but when he got out I needed a lay down!

With Mic’s post yesterday, you had to know this post was coming today!

Wishing our beautiful pregnant sister Micaela a wonderful birthday. This will be your last birthday before you are a mother. Enjoy every minute of it, next year will be different, but wonderful just the same!

Photo from her other blog, showing off her beautiful belly.

Mic & Kent looking adorable meeting Hailey for the first time last January, and will be parents this coming January!

Happy Birthday Mickers!

It’s my birthday tomorrow, and birthdays aren’t generally things people get too excited about after the age of 21 or so. Celebrating them can still be fun but everyone dreads the actual getting older part. I loved being in my late teens and early twenties when life felt like one big party. But you know what, now things like buying our house, imagining what it’s going to be like when the baby is born, and making enough money to pay for the things I want and the things I need are as exciting as running around with my friends at our favourite bar used to be.

Here are a few of my favourite things about getting older:

Coffee. It’s one of those things that seems like the grossest thing in the world until one day, you realize that it’s actually the most wonderful thing in the world.

Staying in. When you’re younger you feel like a loser staying in on a weekend night. Now you stay in, or come home early and you get to feel totally responsible and cozy. And get to feel great the next day too.

Living with someone I love. To be honest, I was pretty lucky and never had a horrible roommate situation in university, but I know my sisters can attest to the fact that living with roommates can suck. Even in good situations, aside from really close friends, it can be kind of weird living with people you don’t know all that well. It’s way preferable to live with someone who totally adores you, if you can arrange that to happen.

How about you?