sorting through memories

We're staying at Keith's parents' house for a few days and going through lots and lots and lots of stuff that we have had sitting in storage. Some is just from our last move, but some is from the move before that, and a whole lot of it is from random other moves prior to those ones.

So we've been sorting like mad for the last few days. Stuff to throw away, stuff to keep in storage, stuff to give away, and stuff to bring with us to Iowa. The kids have been hanging out with their grandpa while we've been doing all of this and so in large part the sorting has been a solo date for Keith and me. What a trip down memory lane! There are photos from so many parts of our journey together, from high school prom to engagement photos to wedding and honeymoon pictures to college in Canada and our mission trip to Africa. Lots of memory stuff too from our time in Utah that we hadn't sorted through. It's been special to sort through and find random things. Letters to each other mingled with notes from friends and interspersed with pictures of Rilla as a baby. So sweet and special.

There are all of our random childhood memory things too. 4-H trophies to throw away, letters from camp friends who we don't remember, even math assignments that I had for who knows what reason. Anyway, it is a special time. I'll have to post a few pictures of Keith and I from back then... we look younger, which is another way of saying we must be getting older. I like it though. I like looking back and smiling and laughing together at how far we've come.