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I have a firm belief that half birthdays should be celebrated.  Actually, I have a firm belief that many obscure holidays should be celebrated, but that is a different post for another day.  My half birthday was this past week.  So to celebrate I took a half day off from work (awesome, right?) and met up with my fabulous cousin Heidi.  We headed up to Park City and had an in depth talk about life during our drive.  I have another firm belief that my friends and I could solve world problems through our simple chats, if the world would only listen to us, but that might be a bit of a biased point of view.  What can I say, I have very wise friends.  (Note to Heidi:  I wish you lived closer!  I miss our talks.)   We had a beautiful afternoon of perusing window displays, art gallery hopping and eating crepes for lunch.

I thought this window display was quite cute.

Pondering art.  This gallery had Russian Impressionism
paintings, which were very cool.

The beautiful Heidi!

Cousins

Crepes anyone?

I love this picture of Heidi.
Now that I'm 28.5 I actually can say the last 6 months have been months of growth, which isn't a bad thing.  In fact, there are many 6 month periods in my life I can't say that for.  I'm not exactly looking forward to 29, not because I'm mourning the loss of my 20's or anything.  Age is what it is.  It's just that I prefer even numbers over odd, strange but true.
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  1. Lee AnnOctober 17, 2011 at 10:47 AM

    So do I! Looks like you two had a great time. Of course when you met up with us it was even better!

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  2. ErinOctober 17, 2011 at 11:33 AM

    Happy half birthday Jannifer! I am glad you got to have a half day off of work!

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