My Valentine – Thankful Thursday
What with today being Valentine’s Day I thought it only fitting to pay tribute to my amazing husband for this week’s Thankful Thursday post.
Not only is he my extremely supportive husband of over 11 years and my best friend, he is also a wonderful father to our boys. He is the fun parent and the three of them get up to all kinds of mischief together. I really couldn’t ask for a better life companion.
But as well as all of the above he has shown me the world, literally. I had never been outside of Australia when we met and I acquired my first passport in order to meet his family for the first time in New Zealand. On that first trip I learnt a lot, not only about him, but also what a beautiful country this is. Over the next couple of years we would move to the UK, go back to Tasmania to get married, travel around Europe and then settle in NZ in 2004.
The highlight to date though would have to be our seven months spent living in the USA last year, as part of his job.
We had the amazing opportunity to live on the edge of a New England forest around 1.5 hrs from Boston. It really was a unique experience for all of us – the sounds, the sights, the animals… We were able to travel not only around Massachusetts, but to New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Wisconsin, Illinois, Colorado, Wyoming and Montana, including Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park.
So today I’ll leave you with just a few moments from our trip. It really was amazing and I can’t thank my husband enough for all he does for us, the long hours he works to support us, and the fabulous places he takes us…
Our local township in Massachusetts
Predator antics in the local forest
The boys first experience of snow
Walking on the local lake
Dinosaur extravagansas in a local museum
More sledding in New Hampshire
Walking in the Flat Irons, overlooking Boulder, Colorado
Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
Lower Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Just in time for Old Faithful, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
It’s Thankful Thursday where Gratitude is an Attitude!
Link up with some amazing people over at Six By The Bay and share what you are thankful for.
Life is so precious, soak in the special moments…
Category: Gratitude
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You take the most beautiful photos. It looked like you had such a wonderful experience. Thanks for sharing xxxx
Thanks Leigh! We really did. All seems like a dream now though.
Wow those photos are amazing! looks like you had a great time and you have some special people in your life
Thanks Kate, I do, sometimes we forget though in the day to day chaos that is life. I like to look though my pics often and remember how great my life and family really are.
So good to stop and be thankful of our partners. It can be so easy to complain about the little things but I don’t know what I would do without my man … love him to bits. Thanks for a great post Nicky!
You are welcome!
Oh wow – looks like you had an amazing time in the States – so jealous!
Wow – what an adventurous life you have had so far – and so lovely that you have such a wonderful partner. Those photo’s are stunning! Min xo
Amazing photos and amazing experiences! Happy Valentines to you and yours! x
Thanks lovelies for the lovely comments!