Day 30

This month of gratefulness has been a lot of fun, but alas the end of the month has arrived. Now we can celebrate Christmas!

Stephanie: Today I am very, very grateful for my wonderful husband. I have been so blessed to have him in my life. He has an amazing work ethic, drive to graduate school, and love for me. Sometimes I wonder how I got so lucky to have him in my life. He's everything to me and I try to make life easier for him to the best of my abilities. Our first anniversary is on Monday (when did that happen?!). Time sure flies when you're having fun! Marrying Nathan has been the best decision I've ever made. So here's to surviving our first year of marriage and to many, many more anniversaries to come!

Nathan: Today I'm thankful for my old dog Patches. She helped me so much growing up. That's the beautiful thing about good pets, they literally love you more that they love themselves. While growing up we were inseparable, I could seriously never get her to stay home. She followed me everywhere because she always wanted to be with me. She taught me so much about responsibility and how to take care of another life. She also taught me how to love, she helped me through the hardest years of my life and I love her now and forever for it. She might have loved me more than I loved her but I sure tried my best to match her. I'll never forget her, no matter how many other dogs I'll own, she holds a special place in my heart.

Day 28 and 29

Day 28:

Stephanie: Today I am grateful for my little cat Clover. She drives me crazy sometimes, but I still love her. She loves to run around the house raise hell and then come over to me and sleep on my shoulder. She's now almost four months old and I can't believe how much she's grown in the past couple months!

Baby Clover!

She was so cute as a tiny, tiny kitten

Four weeks old

Four Months old

Nathan: Today I'm thankful for the Constitution of the United States of America. It is the greatest, most inspired document that's ever been written. It's the people's job to protect it by electing appropriate officials, I feel like we have failed in the last decade, but I have faith that we will come back and rise to the challenge again.

Day 29:

Stephanie: I am so grateful for my Addi dog! She's such a fun and sweet spirit and makes our lives so much better. I can't believe how lucky we got when we found her outside of Smith and Edwards for 20 bucks. She's the reason that Nathan and I decided to finally get married (I guess you could say we had child together before we got married). I love her so much and I'm grateful everyday for her!

Baby Addi!

She was so adorable as a puppy!

This is how she sleeps most of time

She loves her dad!

This is my most favorite picture ever

Nathan: Tonight I'm thankful for the end of the semester. It's so close but yet so much to do till then.

Day 27

Stephanie: Today I am grateful that I live somewhere that has all four seasons. I absolutely love the changing seasons, even winter. There's something to be said about a mountain side that will bloom with spring growth, be green and lush in summer, colorful in fall, and look majestic and romantic with winter snow.

Summer

Fall

Winter

Spring

Nathan: I'm thankful for modern transportation. It allows us to be more productive by spending less time traveling. Plus walking everywhere would get old.

Day 20 through 26

Okay, okay, okay we are complete slackers and we know it. Life got incredibly, nut-so busy last week. So here's a week of thankfulness!


Day 20

Stephanie:This one will sound silly, but I am so grateful for indoor plumbing. There are parts of this world that people don't have it, I am SO glad I have it!

Nathan: I'm thankful for a warm bed and a wife to fill it.

Day 21

Stephanie: I am so thankful for family traditions. I love my family's traditions and I can't wait to start my own! I already have some ideas!

Nathan: I'm thankful for cheese and the amazing food that it is.

Day 22

Stephanie:I love Thanksgiving! I'm so glad that we get to celebrate it every year!

Nathan: I'm thankful for Thanksgiving and the chance to spend time with all our families.

Day 23

Stephanie: I am grateful for warm showers. My house does not have very warm water, so I really appreciate it when I get to shower somewhere that has scalding hot water.

Nathan: I'm thankful for my constant drive to better myself and that I'm not lazy.

Day 24

Stephanie: I'm grateful for birthdays, everybody's birthday! I plan months ahead for Nathan's Birthday, I love to spoil him because it's his one day to be selfish (Nathan isn't good at being selfish). My birthday is a month away and I'm already planning my party :)

Nathan: I'm thankful for FFA and all the learning experiences I've had.

Day 25

Stephanie: I"m thankful for cuddling. It's my favorite. I love it when Nathan comes home from work and wants to cuddle, but falls asleep within five minutes of cuddles. I also love to cuddle Addi. Cuddling is Addi's favorite too.

Nathan: I'm thankful for amazing in-laws and the love that they've shown me.

Day 26

Stephanie: I am grateful for my glasses. I literally cannot see without them (my eyesight is 20/500). I'm truly impaired without them, I can't drive, clean my house, go to class, or even watch tv without them.

Nathan: I'm thankful for happiness because life would be sad without it :)

Day 18 and 19

Day 18:

Stephanie: I am grateful for all the wonderful teachers I have had in my life. I know that I would never have passed any of math classes in high school if it wasn't for the patience of Mrs. Bingham. I wouldn't be anywhere in my life if it wasn't Mr. Summers, my ag teacher. He helped to fuel my passion for agriculture and motivate me to become an ag teacher. In college I have had so many wonderful professors. Thank you Dr. Warnick and Dr. Lawver for being such great examples and leaders!

Nathan: Tonight I am thankful for my sister Natasha (AKA Tasha). She is such an amazing sister and has been there for me my whole life. When we were younger she would have loved to kill me but now I like to think that she would love to kill anyone for me. She's an amazing mother and a loving sister. I hope to someday be as good a parent as she is.

Day 19:

Stephanie: I am so thankful for the FFA. This program has given me everything in my life. I wouldn't have most of the friends I do, my self-confidence, my future career, or my husband if it wasn't for the FFA. I love the FFA with all my heart and I hope to be a good adviser one day. Learning to do, doing to learn. Earning to live, living to serve. - FFA Motto

Senior Year of FFA

State Degree

National FFA Convention 2011

I got to marry an FFA Nerd just like me!

Nathan: Tonight I'm thankful for Monday Night Football. This program has provided me with hours of entertainment. Some of the most memorable events of the last decade and of my life has come from MNF.

Day 16 and Day 17

Day 16

Stephanie: I am very grateful for my grandparents. I have some pretty amazing grandparents. Each of them have helped me so much throughout my life and so very supportive. My mom couldn't have raised Aaron and I alone without her wonderful parents to help her. So thank you Grandma Diana, Grandpa and Grandma Wendy, and Shad and Linda for always being there for me!

Nathan: Tonight I'm thankful for my cousins. My cousins have helped raise me and have been the best examples a young man could ask for. The greatest men I know are within my own family and I count that as a blessing.


Day 17

Stephanie: Today I am grateful for my brother Aaron! Today is his 20th birthday, when did we get so old! Aaron and I were always two peas in a pod........ then we became teenagers ;) It's a good thing we don't stay teenagers forever! Aaron is a good brother and can't image life without my sibling!

Nathan: Go Panther's! I'm so thankful for being able to go and watch my home town win the Nevada 1A state championship football game! I love my home town and I'm so proud of being from Alamo. They are now the 5 time state champions with 5 undefeated years. Our coaches are amazing and the kids have good examples. There's only one way that we can be that good for that long......a good foundation. Good families, good kids, and good coaches.

Day 15

Stephanie: I am grateful for the good health Nathan and I have. We are so lucky that we don't have any major medical problems. I'm so happy with the wonderful body I've been given. I have so many abilities, I can do whatever I'd like to. Except the splits... I'll have to work on that.


Nathan : I'm thankful for the love of my wife. She treats me so well and I have a loving home in which to enter. She's the best thing that has ever happened to me.