attitude of gratitude: tanner time

sorry to choose a photo where your eyes are closed, tan. guess you're so happy you can barely stand it.

here's the thing:

our life in CA is so great. so so great.

i have a really great job and nice coworkers.

tanner really loves school and what he is studying.

we are in a great ward and have made really great friends.

but here's the other thing:

sometimes our life in CA can be busy. so so busy.

tanner's life more so than mine obviously. but it gets busy.

with tanner's first graded assignment for the whole semester due on monday, our time together has been little to none the past couple weeks. we're talking sometimes eating breakfast together and most of the time eating dinner together. usually never going to sleep at the same time. and some lunch time phone calls in between when our lunch hours happen to meet up at the same time.

you can summarize that paragraph as a little bit of brynne complaining time.

so here's the final thing: 

last night after i got home from YW, tanner decided to take a study break. we didn't go out on the town and spend all my hard earned dollaaazzz but we just took an hour to relax. a word that hardly exists in tanner's vocabulary anymore.

 and i found that my tired, sort of cranky self that had been hanging around for a couple days left almost instantaneously. 

in short - i'm grateful for tanner time. it never ceases to make me the happiest gal on earth.