Thanksgiving together for 10 years!

This year we realized that we are now celebrating our tenth Thanksgiving together.  That surprises us!

How time passes.  We are at an age that we are noticing the passage of time in a way that we never have before.  

It is sweet to reminisce and talk together of our past.  We have so very many good memories of our childhood and growing up in the 50’s, our siblings and friends, the work where we dedicated many years, once in a lifetime memories of our children growing up and becoming adults, and the wonderful memories of our ten years together.

But it is also disturbing since we can’t quite figure out where the time went.  We can’t fathom when or how we became an old couple.  Just yesterday it seems that there were “old” people around, but we were not one of those “old” people.  And now we are.

It’s OK because we love each other and love our life together.  And we love our grandchildren, our children, and our family.  It’s just a bit perplexing.....

 "Who knows where the time goes...."

We also miss our family that is no longer here.  Those that have died, with all of their memories that have died with them. We wish that we could see them, hear their voices, see their smiles again, and talk together and hear their wisdom.   But our memories of them are sweet and vibrant.  And we think of them every day.

Now that we are celebrating our 10th Thanksgiving, we realize that we have many years of memories together, and this also gets us thinking about the passage of time.

We both love Thanksgiving Day with the smell of turkey in the oven and the family we love gathered together with laughter and love in the air.  We have so many memories of Thanksgivings past.   It is our favorite holiday.  

Here is our past nine years of Thanksgiving celebrations in photos.  We have celebrated Thanksgiving all over our wonderful country--in Washington, Florida, Utah, Arizona, Texas, and California.  Our 10th Thanksgiving, this year's, will be a separate blog post.

2011 at our home Whidbey Island home in Washington:

 

2012 at home on Whidbey Island:

2013 at the Everglades in Florida:

2014 at Big Bend National Park, Texas:

2015 at our Whidbey Island home....an early Thanksgiving in September with much of our family:

 

2015 Actual Thanksgiving Day in the Mojave National Preserve, California:

 

2016 at the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge in Arizona:

 

2017 at Valley of the Gods in Utah:

 

2018 our first year living in Leisure World with our grandson, Adam:

 

2019 with Kathy and Bill at our home, Nuestra Casa, in Leisure World, Arizona:

We have so very much to be thankful for on this beautiful Thanksgiving Day in 2020!