One Year

This week we signed another one year contract on our apartment. To me, it really felt good to be staying home for another year.

We have been really blessed here. I have reflected a lot on our life here in Topeka recently, and when I do, I'm filled with gratitude to Heavenly Father for the blessings he's given while we've been here. No matter where we are in a year, or two, or five, I think we will always look back at our time here as incredibly blessed.

We have really made a home here. We have been grateful for the people in the Topeka area, who have been warm and inviting and have helped us create a life here that is really special. We love the midwest, and we love our friends here. We have church friends and work friends and law school friends and volleyball friends.

I am really grateful for the last six years of my friendship with Todd. He is really my best friend, and home is anywhere he is. I think it is alright for me to say that we will appreciate this time of our lives without children, and look back on it as a time of necessary growth in our marriage. We want children, but life is sweet now, and we are grateful for these four years we've had to be on a perpetual (somewhat roller coaster-like) date :)

So thanks, Heavenly Father, for looking out for us and guiding us here. We would not be as happy as we are without the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Thanks, Topeka friends, who are here now and who have moved on, for being kind to us.

Thanks to our families, who have supported us while we are far away. We are grateful for the technology that has allowed us to stay close and keep in touch.

Merry Christmas!

Things and people we love:

Church and law school friends :)

Work friends :)

Oh, the barbecue!

The history.

Date nights!

The church history nearby.

The sports!

Sports x2 :)

The Winter Quarters temple and the one being built in KC!

and, finally--Volleyball friends.

Love,

The Thomasons