Thankful Thursday

I know it is not Thursday, and I know it has been a long time since I had a thankful Thursday post. It's not that I have not been thankful. Believe you me. Promise. Ever have one of those days where you just feel like your cup "overfloweth"? That's me today. I just couldn't wait until Thursday. Hope you don't mind. I promise I will try to not make it as bad as the verbal vomit that spewed from me on sunday at church. I won't be doing that again anytime soon!! (Oh and just for future reference when that little voice in your head is SCREAMING at you to sit down and shut up. You should listen. I'm just sayin'. You may thank me one day.)

1. Trevor

We celebrated our fifteen year anniversary at the end of September. Fifteen years and my heart still pounds when he holds my hand. (Just like it did when I was 15 and he held my hand for the first time.) Our relationship has gone through some serious and uncomfortable growing pains that last couple of years. There have been moments when I have wondered why it has to be so difficult sometimes. But aren't the most difficult things the most valuable things in the end?? He is constant and strong and level headed and he would do anything for me. And I am crazy and stressed out and impulsive. (Let's paint the living room at ten o'clock at night honey!) Yet through it all he still answers the phone when I call him at work. Even though he doesn't ever know what he is going to hear on the other end. Thanks.

2. A much needed vacation.
We have been planning a Disneyland trip for two years and tomorrow we are finally taking it. We need it. I am so excited to say goodbye to
dishes
and homework
and laundry
and school
and lessons
and work
and temperatures in the 50's.
And SO ready to say hello to
Mickey Mouse
and sunscreen
and time to relax
and handholding
and space mountain
and no dishes or laundry
and temperatures in the 80's.

3, Preschool
Cole and Cagney started preschool yesterday. It felt so weird dropping them off and knowing that for the next 2 and a half hours all of my kids were in school!! It was wonderful and sad at the same time and I couldn't wait to pick them up and hear all about their day. They loved it. I knew they would.

4. Work friends
I know I have said this before, but I'm sayin' it again. My job is hard. Physically. And mentally. And emotionally. But I love it. Crazy as it sounds. The people that I work with make all the difference. They make me laugh, and encourage me in school, and teach me things, and listen to stories about my kids when they probably don't care. I'm so thankful for them. You know who you are...

5. Fall
As happy as I am to travel to sunny California, I am unexpectedly sad to leave Utah in the fall. It is my favorite time of year. No contest. Fall feels cozy to me despite the drop in temperature. But it passes too quickly and soon the fall leaves are gone and I'm sad that I will miss 7 whole days of it. I LOVE the orange but sadly the white will soon follow.