Here are some photos of our "60th" party to celebrate.
The 20s were wonderful for us. We got engaged at 20 and married at 21. We had Tianna just before we turned 25 and Kaydence just before 28. We have owned 2 houses in our 20s and graduated with 3 degrees, 2 from Kings and 1 from U of A. We have moved from our apartment in Edmonton to a house in Edmonton and then to a house in Calgary. We have gone on countless trips: Mexico, Holland, LA, Victoria, Vancouver, Regina and many more. We have traveled with 5 different cars many miles between to Victoria, Penticton, Regina, Edmonton, Alix, Sicamous, Fairmount and Calgary and many more places. We worked at Camp Chestemere for 4 summers and we made many life long friends. We have been to countless weddings of Friends and had some amazing dinners with them. We have attended 3 wonderful churches and made lifelong relationships at each of them.
God has shown us that when a door closes in Edmonton with Reuben's job that the window is open and we were called to jump. Jump into his plan of moving us to Calgary to be with my Dad as he fell ill in Mexico and rejoice as we watched him recover from GBS. We said goodbye to my mom's parents and grandma and welcomed Deanna into our family. We have been shown the depths of love when it comes to our children and each other, as we grown more and more in love every day.
Reuben has had the privilege of working in 2 different hospitals both in the OR and Teresa has had the privilege of being able to stay home with the girls and still create an income and advance the bakery business. We have watched Reuben's Mom go through some mental health issues and be a support to other family emergencies. We have laughed more times then we can count and cried just as many times. I am sure there have been 30 times when we have questioned why we got married so young and yet 30 more times that we are so thankful to have each other. There have been 30 times when we have thanked God for our houses and our families and 30 times we have wondered what we got ourselves into.
Now that we sit at the beginning of the next decade we wonder what God has in store for us. By the end of this decade Tianna will be 15, a teenager through and though and we wonder if she will still love to be outside all the time. Kaydence will be 13 and we wonder if she will still love to dance. We wonder what God has in store for us in the next decade and look forward to the many challenges and exciting things he has planned for us. If we look back on our 20s we can see each and every blessing in our life, we see God's hand guiding us and directing our every move. We see his plan in action. I am not sure that if we could go back to being 20 that we would see that this is where we would be but we have grown in ways we never could have seen before.
We were naive at 20, thinking that life would be easy once school was done and we were married instead we awake every day knowing that we love each other and that we will work to keep that love alive. We were naive to think that being a parent was easy, it is so difficult and yet we would not change it for the world. We were naive to think that life was always there, that grandparents would always be there and that life would just stay as it was. To think that we have lost 2 grandparents and a great parent was not something we expected and every day we miss them dearly. We were naive to think that owning a house would be easier then paying rent, instead we have had good and bad tenants to help us pay our mortgage and yet we know that we are blessed to have a house to call our own at such a young age. We were naive to think that God would stay in our box that we had made for him at 20, instead he expanded that box every year with his blessing and showing us how powerful he really is. We have watched friend loose loved ones both suddenly and slowly and are learning that every day is a blessing from God. We were naive at 20 to think we would live forever.
And yet... here we are. On the brink of a new decade, ready for what God has in store for us, with arms and eyes wide open to him. Ready to see what adventures he brings our way. Ready to see where we will be when we look back at our 30s and see the wonderful ways that God has made our box even bigger.
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