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5 year anniversary post.

~ Etc.

Get ready for some ridiculous amount of pictures of ourselves of the last 5 years!
We celebrated our 5 year anniversary this past memorial day weekend.  I wanted to do a little flashback of the past 5 years in a nutshell.
We got engaged
 got married
we gave birth to Adalie, one of the best days of our lives.
Jay won the ugly sweater contest at his work Christmas party and got a $1,000
went to Hawaii to spend Christmas with Jay’s family
we tried to adjust into this so called parenthood
it wasn’t always easy, but we had a good sense of humor which made it easier
(and that cute face too)
Jay always continued to make me laugh
went to Hawaii for Christmas and jumped off a cliff
took a road trip to California in the summer…
got pregnant during that trip(second pregnancy surprise for us)
finished renovating our towne home
went to Hawaii for Christmas before giving birth to our second child
we gave birth to Ariana, one of the best days of our lives.
got to take this happy baby home from the hospital 
to begin our lives as parents of two kids under 16 months
didn’t listen to my mom and went out a week after giving birth, which resulted in us getting caught shoving crabs in my purse, and getting mastitis and thrush(fun times!).
but we had our two scoops of Tyau and they filled our lives with happiness.
we got sealed as a family in the temple.  The best day of our lives!
went on a family trip with Jay’s whole family to Caifornia and hit all the amusement parks, 
such as Disney Land, The Hogle Zoo, and The Universal Studios
bought a house with a national forest in the backyard
spent another Christmas in Hawaii
and continued to make memories together…
and loving him even with the molestache
out of all the things we’ve accomplished in the past 5 years,
one thing we’re most proud of is raising a happy home together.
that’s filled with a lot of love, a lot of apologizing, a lot of forgiveness, a lot of prayers, a lot of laughter, a lot of tenderness, a lot of patience, a lot of service, a lot of selflessness, and a whole lot of fun.
We sure had some moments of disappointment, discouragement, and frustrations, but I can say the past 5 years has been the best 5 years of my life.  I found my journal the other day that I kept when I was in High School and one entry was titled, “The man of my dreams.”  I thought, ooh, this is going to be good!  And read the list to Jay and I was so surprised that he met EVERY SINGLE ONE on that list.  Every single one, no joke.  And in the end of that journal were some entries I added when I started dating Jay and it said, 
“So and so is dating so and so.  So and so just applied to graduate school.  So and so just got engaged!  I’m falling for Jay Tyau.”  
Another entry was “Romantic things Jay’s done” and some on the list were:
-Tonight Jay told me his password for everything has been my name…for a long time, even before we started dating.
-Today as we were sitting together in church, he showed me his bookmark which was my testimony I had written in a letter to him during my mission.  He printed my email and made a bookmark out of it and has been using it for a year or so!  He told me my faith and testimony in God has helped him a ton during the difficult times.
SAY WHAT???  How in the world did I think that was romantic?  More like creepy, holy crap!!!  They say love is blind, it really is true!?  
Haha, all jokes aside(not really, I still think it’s creepy), love may be somewhat blind, but I see clearly now why I married him, and I’m so glad I did!  I scored a jackpot!  I am so, so excited to grow old with you, Jay.  You just keep getting better and better.  
I LOVE YOU.

Comments

  11. Elena S. says

    Congratulations! So much emotion in story&pictures… May you continue living as beautifully and enjoying live so thoroughly! 🙂 Thank you also for the idea you gave me with this post, this year(but in autumn), we (my husband&I) also celebrate 5 years of marriage, we too have 2 small children( a boy and a girl) and what you created above is a wonderful idea of a present (photo collage, a slideshow, some pictures on the walls of our house…) I wish you have a wonderful weekend and thank you again for the sense of 'good life' and the inspiration your blog brought into my life…
    Elena

  13. summersun says

    Congratulations guys! This was an awesome post, I love your family.

    I also like how Adalie still looks IDENTICAL to that baby photo! She will never age!

  15. steph nelsen says

    this post was so entertaining! you guys have to be one of the cutest families on the internet. and your collective sense of humor is so apparent i was laughing right along with you! congrats : )

  22. Sarah says

    Thank you! I always appreciate your comments so much. Thank you for always reading, it's readers like you that motivates me to keep blogging. 🙂

  26. Sarah says

    Oh, congratulations to you! I guess we're in the same boat! I think a slideshow with "your song" will be so cute, I wanted to do that more than just the pictures but I was too impatient. 🙂 And you are so sweet, thank you for your thoughtful comment, it means a lot to me!

  28. Sarah says

    Haha, does she? She looks so big to me now. But then again, I'll say how little she was when I see pictures of her now, 5 years later. 🙂 Thank you for your comment!

  30. Sarah says

    Was it funny? haha, I'm glad it was entertaining! 🙂 Thank you for always leaving comments and reading this blog. It means SO much to me.

  31. Julia says

    Dear Sarah, you are more beautiful year after year. May I ask you when did you started to use brace and what kind of it? Sorry for my bad English…

  32. Sarah says

    You are so sweet, thank you! I got braces in feb 2010 and got them off in aug 2011. I had the speed braces, with the bottom ones metal, the top ones in the teeth color(I can't remember the name).

    And I understood your english perfectly! 🙂

  33. Anonymous says

    Congratulations! You and your family are such an inspiration. Thank you for sharing parts of your lives with the world. God bless you and your family! 🙂

    Laura

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