This is my Tuesday - Family

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This is my Tuesday - Vacation

Having spent our early years of married life in the military and then ending up thousands of miles from where we grew up, most of our vacations have been trips back home to visit family. Last year we decided to turn it into a road trip from Arizona to Illinois and take in a few sights along the way.

I know this is supposed to be a photo, and hope it's okay with Wendy if I share this. It's just a little video mash up of our trip. Because, you know, everyone has to be subjected to boring vacation movies when they come to visit. Haha! (Hint: It is somewhat more enjoyable with the sound turned on.)

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This is my Tuesday - Love

I really can't believe we've been married 30 years. Not because I never thought it would last, but because when I was 20 and he was 18, 30 years seemed like an eternity. At that age you feel like you are invincible  anyway. Time is what happens to your parents but never to you. As soon as we were married the military swept us away. It was the first time either one of us had ever been away from home for an extended period, and he was looking at a 6 year tour. Even THAT seemed like an eternity to two kids.

But it helped us grow up fast, and now our epic 50/30/10 year is coming to a close. This self portrait was taken in the back of the limo he surprised me with coming back from my 50th birthday brunch. We're a bit rounder in the face (as well as other places) and one of us has less hair, but we felt like a couple of kids again that day. I'm sure the Champagne Brunch had nothing to do with that!

(This is my contribution to Wendy’s This Is My Tuesday.  Please visit Wendy to see what others are posting about Love today.)

This is my Tuesday - Home

My blogging pal, Wendy, has started a terrific new meme called This is my Tuesday. Every week a new topic will be chosen and on Tuesday participants can share a photo on that particular topic.

 

This week’s topic is “Home”. I am happy to say that my favorite time of year has finally arrived, and I can spend the afternoons and evenings for the next few months sitting on my back patio enjoying the beautiful weather. I just planted some new flowers, and soon it will be cool enough at night to light a fire in the chiminea. We’ll be having dinner on the patio many evenings, and the rye grass is beginning to grow as the bermuda goes dormant. I am so glad the hot, hot days of summer are coming to an end – this is when I get my Spring fever and where I like to spend most of my free time from October through March!

 

Please visit Wendy at Red Boots and see what others call “Home”.