5 years and counting!

It seems like everyone's anniversary is in August! Well today it is our turn. We were married on Friday the 13th in 2004, it has been 5 crazy years! Here's what we were doing on, or around our anniversary for the last 5 years.

August 13, 2004. We were married in the Idaho Falls Temple. It was a hot and loooong day. But it was amazing. Exactly one week later we moved to Germany.

August 13, 2005. We went to Paris for our 1 year anniversary. I was ENORMOUSLY pregnant with Chelsea but it was still a trip we will never forget. It was so awesome to see the sites of the most romantic city in the world! This picture is in front of Notre Dom. One short month later we were parents!

August 2006. Jacob had recently returned from Afghanistan and it felt like we were newlyweds again. We were just so infatuated with each other! We went to the Bavarian Alps for 5 days and had a wonderful time. This will always be remembered as our favorite vacation spot. We had so much fun!!! I hope we can go back someday. We also went to Amsterdam around August 2006 but I couldn't find any pictures at the moment. This picture is in front of the lodge we stayed at in the Alps. Nevermind my hair, I had a bad run-in with a German hairstylist...

August 2007. We were in Idaho for our anniversary this year which was great! We had a free babysitter!!! If I remember correctly we went to dinner somewhere. Jacob bought me a beautiful 3 stone diamond neclace that year because he had always promised that he would on our 3rd anniversary. Isn't he sweet?

August 2008. We were home in CA for our anniversary last year. I was getting ready to leave for Idaho in a couple days and I had a scary Dr.'s appointment on the 15th so everything was a bit crazy. But everything turned out OK and I left for Idaho on the 17th...or the 19th...I don't really remember.

This year we are in CA again. We had an OB appointment today and then went to lunch. It was fun. We are planning a real date tomorrow night. Call me crazy but I didn't feel like taking any vacations this year to celebrate.

All in all it has been a whirlwind of a ride so far. I wouldn't trade our first 5 years for ANYTHING. It has been so great to live in a couple different places and to look back and realize how strong our marriage and relationship have become. I am so blessed in my life, I don't know what I ever did to deserve all this, but I am very grateful. Who knows what the next 5 years will bring, but I'm ready for it and I know I can handle anything that comes our way as long as I still have the best husband in the world!