Today I can say that I loved you through your thirties, all 3,652 days.
   

It was a period of life that included diaper changing and, years later, changing our car insurance to include a new teen driver. Soon we'll add another. 

  

In your thirties we lived in three places, toward the end moving our oldest to his own place.

  

 
We've experienced ten spring seasons and countless new experiences like sending our youngest off to kindergarten, you baptizing both our girls and teaching your son to shave. 

   

  

  

 

We've been blessed with seasons of summer; long days on the beach, world travel, unrestricted Fridays, and days we spent in the car, all five of us, for a special road trip. 

   
    
   
  

There were hundreds of days of autumn; shorter days where time passed more quickly. We realized the importance of preserving daylight and other things like hula hoop and twirling performances and dinner around the table.

     
 
Winter days we couldn't escape were made warmer by thoughts of summer. The days with less daylight hours were never far from colorful days of autumn, still fresh in our memories. We always knew that cold days would soon give way to spring where new would blossom  

We've seasons ahead with surprises to unwrap, and hopefully much of the same that your thirties held

Winters that make us appreciate the sun

Springs brimming with progress and newness

Autumns with beauty to capture and carry along 

And summers, long summers without worry and always with each other 

Happy 40th birthday. 

Happy first year of the next ten years to open 3,652 gifts of new days.
 

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. Ecclesiates 3:11