It's my 30th birthday year. As part of my celebrations, I thought I would take my birthday month to reflect on my life. To help, I am using some of my scrapbooked pages to illustrate my life. For each year, I've chosen a few pages to highlight that year. I hope you enjoy my look back as much as I do.

1982: I was born. I don't remember that first year, obviously, but I've chosen a few pages that highlight my life.

Page 1: The cover for my scrapbooks. I had to go with purple as my background paper; it's my favorite color of all time. I found these cute die cuts to add to my name and birthdate.

Page 2: I continued with my purple theme throughout the early years scrapbook. I had to include my just after being born picture. Look at my all wrapped up in blankets, looking all cute. When I was born, I was the fifth generation alive on my mom's side. The newspaper came to the family's home to document the five generations. There's me, my mother Rebecca, her father Jerry, his mother Helen, and her mother. I never knew my great-great grandmother as she died when I was just a few months old. I knew my great-grandmother Helen. She eventually developed Alzheimer's and did when I was in middle school.

Page 3: Scenes from my first year of life. One of my favorite pictures from my entire life is the one with the Cheerios box. My grandma Joan was trying to enter me into a cutest baby contest sponsored by Cheerios. I obviously didn't win, but I do so love that picture. Unfortunately, I seem to have a really long head in the picture on the bottom left. Thankfully I grew into it.