Single!

This is the oh so beautiful Paige. She is 30 and single and ROCKING it. The reason I asked Paige to do this was because not every one of us is in the same, "married with a few kids" boat. In fact I am finding that there are a lot of women out there who are still enjoying lives and careers without the small family attached.

In my job I spend a lot of time with women in their twenties. Lets face I am a wedding photographer in Utah. We get married quiet young around here. This past year however I have had the opportunity to photograph weddings of women who are stepping out of that category. Two of the best weddings I have ever attended where these women. What I have found about them is they really know what they want. There is no second guessing their decisions. I guess that comes with experience.

The perspective I take from being 30 and single is more appealing than the alternative. I find you have had the chance to really settle into a career. The opportunity to travel is more available to you. You really know what it is you want, and the things you really like. You really find a sense of self. Your friends are ones that you will keep forever. Most of this applies to just the general age, but knowing all of this stuff before I was thirty sure would helped me out in the marriage and kid department. Don't get me wrong I love where I am, and wouldn't change what I have learned. I still have the desire to travel and really push my career, but being a wife and mother can limit you on the things you want to do. So my turn will come, and I can take even more life experience with it.

So here is to being single and 30 all at the same time. And to the darling Paige, who if you ask me is quite the catch. Check these pictures out. Is she not just beautiful?

While I haven’t been looking forward to turning 30 for a long time, I must say it hasn’t been too bad. However, I do cringe a little bit when someone asks my age and I have to respond, “I’m 30!” Have I really been living for three decades?!? Now that does sound a little wild!

I think maybe what made me so nervous about turning 30 was all the bad things I had heard about it. Things like, “It all goes down hill from 30!” or, “That is when all those wrinkles start to appear and never go away!” But I figure all of those things have to happen at some point in life anyway, so why not just bring it on!

And of course there is the fact that I am 30 and still single. When I asked Sarah what she wanted me to write about she said, “Why being single rocks!” I smile every time I read this, because it is great, and I love where I am at in my life! I love being able to fill the free time with whatever sounds best. I love being able to have the time to pick up something new and pursue it or for doing the things that I love to do. I think of all of the things I have experienced in my life, and I know that I have been very richly blessed. I have been able to gain a great education, travel to many beautiful areas of the world, and be a daughter to two of the most amazing, loving, and giving parents. And there are still many incredible opportunities awaiting me!

And while I go on about how great it is to be single, don’t get me wrong, of course there are dreams I still want to come true, but I know they will! So, I’ve decided to look at this time of being 30 as a good one…take the life experience I have gained and keep enjoying the single season! I can make life as blissful as I want it to be, no matter what age I am. So, embrace it, love it, and bring it on!