How Quickly Life Changes!

It's November!!!!  I don't know if it's just me, but the whole Halloween thing really seemed to be drawn out this year....like it went on FOREVER!  Maybe I wasn't as excited about it because we didn't take Elijah trick or treating (we're waiting until he can actually say trick-or-treat), but now that it's the day after Halloween, I look forward to hitting up the clearance candy section at Target!

Here at the Evenson house, we're looking forward to a November filled with family coming into town for Thanksgiving!  Reflecting back on Thanksgiving, it got me thinking that since Dustin and I have been married, we have been at a completely different stage of our lives at each Thanksgiving.  Does that make sense?  Let me explain.....

2009

Ok, so this isn't a Thanksgiving picture because I couldn't find any from that year.  I know that Kirsten, my sister-in-law, took this picture a few days after Thanksgiving.  I still didn't have a job and Dustin was working full time at Walgreens.  It still baffles me that we were able to live off of his salary for half a year!  We were living in a rental house.

2010

Two new changes this year: I was working full time as a first grade teacher and we had purchased & were living in our first house!  Dustin was still working at Walgreens, never spending an entire Thanksgiving with us because he had to go to work!

2011

Ok, so I'm failing miserably at finding Thanksgiving pictures (I guess I never take any!).  Anyway, a new thing in 2011 was that I was 10 weeks pregnant at Thanksgiving.  Still working the same jobs, but so excited to have a little one on the way!

2012

New happenings in 2012 include Dustin accepting his current job at Ascension.  Which meant, no more nights/weekends and this would be the last year that he'd be working on Thanksgiving!  We had a 5 month old and I was down to working only 3 days a week!

And so, that brings us to this year, 2013.  New things include:  I'll be 37 weeks pregnant, I'm a stay at home Mom & this will be the first year that Dustin will NOT be working on Thanksgiving (praise the Lord)!

I wouldn't change a single thing; I love the path our life has taken over the past 4 years!