1995 - 30th Birthday

While I have some pictures of my 40th birthday here, I have no record of my 30th. (At right is me at 33*). What I can remember about it, and why I wanted to include a mention of it, is it was a big deal to me. I am sort of sentimental about numbers, the birthdays with zeros and fives on the end. At the time, my husband (who was 15 years my senior, with the birthday of 10/22 to my 10/27) had his 45th birthday just before me. As I recall, we each had a birthday with friends over. I could be wrong, we might have combined it. I vaguely remember sitting around the table in the house we got married in. We got married on the Solstice, June 21st, but I can never remember which year.

But the other thing about turning 30 is I finally felt like an adult. I've always had a baby face and I finally wasn't being asked by clients, are you 18?

*Note on picture: This was when I got my first of many digital cameras. I can remember the day that I took that picture, setting the timer and discovering that if I placed the camera in a window, it was a great lighting source.