Old married couple...

It has been four whole months now, and we love our life. Things have never been busier, crazier or more hectic, but we find quiet moments everyday to appreciate the peace amongst the chaos.
Lots of wonderful experiences and opportunties have come our way recently, so we are working hard, playing hard, and very excited about our future...Things are wonderful.

Gratitude in 2009...

On New Years Eve, we laid together and wrote down all of the things we were grateful for in 2009. We were kind of sleepy, reflecting quietly in those hazy drowsy moments before turning out our lights, after everyone else had gone to bed. We wanted to start the first moments of 2010 with feelings of gratitude, because we know that those feelings elevate our spirits to the highest level of existence...

I read over our list today, and as I saw it with a rested, sharper eye, I was struck by a couple of things. One, I must have been very sleepy when we wrote it because I don't really remember writing them down! But more importantly, I loved how all of the things we were most grateful for were all about the love of our family and times we spent together---our relationship becoming stronger...all of our children loving each other and embracing each other as brothers and sisters... our trips together (Disney, camping, water parks, Ocean City, Hawaii, snow tubing)... fun times at the movies, bowling, art studio, the fair, the park, the zoo, museums, birthday parties, making ice cream, holidays,...

We have truly been blessed, and we are so looking forward to all of the blessings of 2010.