{{Thankful Thursday...}}

THANKFUL I LIVE HERE RIGHT NOW....

and NOT HERE.....

....That in itself should make us all thankful to be where we are right now..

I'm thankful to be born where i was...... to live where I do and to have what I have.... to experience..... to live and to learn what I do.........

we are so very blessed ...........

 

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IT Makes me appreciate what is most important in this life 

our families... our husbands, wives, children, parents, .prayer..faith....

our memories because if everything was wiped out for us, I think its our families and those closest to us that we'd be most worried about ....

I'm thankful for MEMORIES, and all that got us to where we are today......

.....so you know how you hear a song and it brings you back to where ever you might have been at that time or a time and place that means something to you.....

well this {turn up your sound song by Easton Corbin called 

I'm a little more country than that. 

did that for me today

.its a new song but it sounds alot like the songs I listened to when D and I were dating....

part of the lyrics are.... 

{{for you country music lovers you'll love this post but go with it k ! ;)

....I'm have a sappy, lovey, cheesy memory day!}

anyway back to some of the lyrics...

......I just want to make sure you know just who you’re getting under this old hat
Cause girl I’m not the kind to two time or play games behind your back
I’m a little more country than that...

got me thinking about what's under this hat.....

.....I got a hard working man

..someone who stops anytime someone who needs help with a tire or whatever

...a man who will shovel not only his driveway but the whole neighborhoods and take his sons with him

.....I got a man who grew up on a feedlot and learned the value of a dollar at an early age, the value of a women and who learned to work hard

...who has five sisters and 3 brothers and knows how to treat them and his mother

...a man

who loves me..despite my downfalls...

...who is the real deal.... {handy too}....

......who is a great father..... is a lot of fun, 

.....who laughs with me, at me and with me

..who is a lot of fun...

.....a man who honors his priesthood

..who served a mission
...and still lives his life that way

...who worked so hard to get to where he is today

...is someone I'd want for a boss cause he cares a lot...

...who together we've been through a lot of hard things but together its made us stronger

I got a man who makes me want to be a better women

this song for some reason brought me back to the old dating days

where I sat and waited for the phone to ring 

and the minute he called I was there....

.....hauling hay, learning to drive, spending  hours in a tractor getting to know each other

..sitting right beside him in his red truck heading out to a field or on a date didn't matter I was just happy there right beside him...

.....waiting for him at a YA singles dance and wondering if he'd ever come and finally just before the end he drove an hour for me to get the last dance in ...

.....I remember wishing he would come in when I was working a shift and when he actually...... did all dirty and rugged from a long days work in the field hauling or baling..... I wanted that more then anything.... that  country boy and that life.

..I remember thinking I would die when he left to go to college 

and being beyond happy when he came back 3 days later and enrolled in a college close to me

that's love.and I was in it... I'll always be so happy he made that decision..

..I knew I loved him from the start just took him a little longer...but I'm glad he took the time to know for sure...and

 I couldn't be more thankful or in love with him and our life...for the decisions and different courses our live has taken us on....

it's only made us stronger and given us four beautiful children we wouldn't have had any other way then the way they came to be apart of our eternal family..

the years go by so fast and there are so many things over the years that have brought us to where we are now.... 

But I'm thankful for all it the easy, the hard, the heartbreaking, the exciting, the disappointing......

because its part of who we are, a part of the journey
called life. part of what makes us grow up I guess...

but

sometimes I miss the old days

.....so I'm glad we have lots of memories!!

I realize as the years fly by that you know we feel the same inside no matter how old we get. Whether we are the young 22 year old just starting out, the 35 year with a little more experience... living and learning, or the 55 year old realizing that our kids are grown and now the memories of those kids and the things you've been through are what matters most in this life, memories and making more, 

or maybe we are the 88 year old in the rocking chair looking back on the life and memories we've made we still feel the same way inside but things are different, changed and i hope

I always have the things that matter in my life no matter what stage.

I hope I don't look back and have regrets. I hope I always have my memories. 

Especially all the good ones..... the ones attached to a song, a child, a sunset...an old red truck.

.....and especially the one's associated with the man under that old hat.

wow life eh. its full of everything.
so for my embarrassment lol and your  viewing .....

from back in my wrangler wearing, big hair {that I cropped down} ..wearing days
our engagement picture from back in the day ha ha.....

to here.... things change but what matters most stays the same....

our faith, our gratitude. our happiness...our memories.... and our joys

....WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT....

kind of a random nostalgic post.. sorry...

Have a great weekend 

make some memories ....worth remembering......