Yesterday, Jake and I celebrated our 5th anniversary. We had a wonderful dinner date together to celebrate.
It's been 5 great years. We've had a few hiccups along the way, but for the most part, we really couldn't have asked for anything better than the blessings we've received since we were married.
In our first 5 years together, we overcame 8 months of 'long distance living' while I waited for my visa. We started our lives together in Michigan once I was finally able to immigrate. We moved apartments in preparation for the arrival of our first baby. We were blessed to become the parents of our sweet little Luke. 7 weeks after Luke was born, Jake lost his job, and we were both 'stay at home parents' for 4 months while he hunted for a new job. We made a big move to North Carolina, where Jake started a new job (on his 30th birthday), and we bought our first house. We took multiple trips to see family in both Utah and South Africa, and Jake had multiple international trips to China and Japan for work. Grandma and Grandpa Geddes were able to visit us in our new home. Luke reached all of his first milestones like crawling, and walking, but had a speech delay and has since started speech therapy (He's come A LONG way in the past 6 months). Luke got tubes in his first year after back to back ear infections for months. We survived through Luke's terrible twos in mostly one piece, and are now enjoying the much more pleasant 3's with him (He's such a SWEET, funny boy)
We got pregnant with baby number two, and were blessed with our beautiful little Kate. My mom (Gogga) was able to visit with us for 2 months and be at Kates birth and a BIG help while we adjusted to life with two children. We celebrated lots of birthdays... Jakes 29th, 30th, 31st, 32nd and most recently his 33rd... My 23rd-27th birthdays... Lukes 1st-3rd birthdays and little miss Kates 1st birthday...Kate reached all of her milestones, and continues to grow and develop more and more each day... she's a little fire cracker.
Next week, we will be making our second trip back to South Africa to visit my family (most of which have never met Kate), and then we're on to a new year, and the next years of our life together. We have such a wonderful little family, and we've so enjoyed all the milestones that we've reached together. We're at a great stage in our lives and enjoying our growing family.
Happy Anniversary my love. I love you xxx
It's been 5 great years. We've had a few hiccups along the way, but for the most part, we really couldn't have asked for anything better than the blessings we've received since we were married.
In our first 5 years together, we overcame 8 months of 'long distance living' while I waited for my visa. We started our lives together in Michigan once I was finally able to immigrate. We moved apartments in preparation for the arrival of our first baby. We were blessed to become the parents of our sweet little Luke. 7 weeks after Luke was born, Jake lost his job, and we were both 'stay at home parents' for 4 months while he hunted for a new job. We made a big move to North Carolina, where Jake started a new job (on his 30th birthday), and we bought our first house. We took multiple trips to see family in both Utah and South Africa, and Jake had multiple international trips to China and Japan for work. Grandma and Grandpa Geddes were able to visit us in our new home. Luke reached all of his first milestones like crawling, and walking, but had a speech delay and has since started speech therapy (He's come A LONG way in the past 6 months). Luke got tubes in his first year after back to back ear infections for months. We survived through Luke's terrible twos in mostly one piece, and are now enjoying the much more pleasant 3's with him (He's such a SWEET, funny boy)
We got pregnant with baby number two, and were blessed with our beautiful little Kate. My mom (Gogga) was able to visit with us for 2 months and be at Kates birth and a BIG help while we adjusted to life with two children. We celebrated lots of birthdays... Jakes 29th, 30th, 31st, 32nd and most recently his 33rd... My 23rd-27th birthdays... Lukes 1st-3rd birthdays and little miss Kates 1st birthday...Kate reached all of her milestones, and continues to grow and develop more and more each day... she's a little fire cracker.
Next week, we will be making our second trip back to South Africa to visit my family (most of which have never met Kate), and then we're on to a new year, and the next years of our life together. We have such a wonderful little family, and we've so enjoyed all the milestones that we've reached together. We're at a great stage in our lives and enjoying our growing family.
Happy Anniversary my love. I love you xxx
