Forgotten Moments in Time!

“So live that your memories
will be part of your happiness”

I am missing that wonderful hubby of mine right now.
All of my joys, happiness, sadness, everything important in my life has included and been spent and shared with Tracy.

I just went to my Sweet Friend
Cherie's blog.
She had Surgery that is going to put her spending the majority of her summer recovering and so she reflected on happy times from the past 5 years of things they were enjoying in the month of June.

I LOVE taking strolls down memory lane and so do my kids. If I can't find Jade, he is usually at our computer looking at all of our MANY photos we have taken since Ethan was born.

I LOVE the digital era of having all of our photos at our fingertips to enjoy.
So, I decided to take her challenge of posting photos of what we were doing for the past six years in the month of June.

I can't believe how much I have aged.
I just look like a young thing in some of these photos and I had forgotten that my hair was cut fairly short.
I felt a twinge of sadness as I looked at photos of Ethan being on Tracy's shoulders, or me packing him on my hip or pushing him in a stroller and realizing that I have an eight year old boy who can't be packed around anymore.

My how time has just FLOWN by.
I have a Wonderful Life of
Good Times...Great Memories!

I can't believe how mature our yard is!
It seems like just yesterday when we were planning out our front yard and planting trees.
Now, they are all getting SO big and I have perennial flowers that blossom from Spring to Fall.

2009--
I was enjoying the two wonderful days I had with Tracy in Yosemite. Hiking all day, sleeping in the car at nights, enjoying music, nature in all her splendor and enjoying the peace and quiet of the 10 hour drive home without the constant interruption of little kids.

Happy JUNE 2009!!

2008-- brought hikes
up the Cress Creek Trail and grilling hot dogs on the grill afterwards.

2008 also brought SNOW and eating dinner on the lawn using our rocks from our rock wall as chairs.

2007-- we were picking up Tracy from the airport after he returned from a week long business trip to California. "Pirates of the Caribbean" was the craze that year and Tracy brought home souvenirs and treats with the "Pirates" theme!

2006-- our sweet little Ethan
learned how to ride a bike without training wheels!!
SO adorable!

This was what our yard looked like after one year of putting it in.
I can't believe how small our trees were!

JUNE 2005--was a BUSY month!
Ethan was just getting over "Chicken pox" and so every photo is full of dots and scabs all over his little face and little body!

Our month consisted of building a chicken coop from starting the building project in the garage...

moving it onto the trailer and unloading it in the back yard...

to enclosing it in!

It was the month we built
the raised beds for our first garden...

And it was such a happy sight
to see all of our little seeds sprouting!

A trip to Lagoon was also part of our month.
I miss that little guy holding my hand, pushing him in the stroller and packing him around on my hip!

After Lagoon we spent a day with my parents before my mom had knee surgery.
I LOVED that my parents and I were all wearing yellow!

Jade got to enjoy riding a horses at my parents as well.

2004-- we had a 2 year old and a 10 year old,
we hauled many rocks to landscape our yard, went on many little hikes with our little family and the photo of Ethan asleep on Tracy's shoulders is priceless.
He was too tired to walk any further and so Tracy put him on his shoulders and he fell asleep.

We also enjoyed another FUN trip to Lagoon as part of "Thiokel Day" for my dads work.
I LOVE my cute short haircut in these photos!!

It just goes to show you that the best things in life aren't things...
it is FAMILY, Friendship and MEMORIES.
I enjoy SO much reflecting back on "Forgotten Moments in Time"!

"Use your precious moments
to live life fully every single second of every single day"!