Fifteen Years

Scott and I are celebrating our 15th wedding anniversary!!

Here we are 15 years ago.

And here we are now

In case you missed anything in the past fifteen years, here's a really long recap...
(this is borrowed from previous anniversary posts - updated for 2020)

 We met in Florida in 2004


We dated



We had fun together


We dated some more


We decided to get married


We got married in 2005


We kept having fun together


We moved to Monterey


We had a baby (Matthew)


We moved again...to Okinawa

and had another baby (Anna)


Scott deployed to Afghanistan


Scott came back, safe and sound


We moved again to Colorado this time


Scott broke his leg


We had another baby (Grant)

We kept having fun together...but there were more of us


We had another baby (John)

Scott deployed to Afghanistan again...

 

Scott got home from his deployment to Afghanistan about six months later

We moved again to low, humid, hot and flat Illinois.  

We had another baby (Emma)

That makes five if you're counting.

 our oldest (Matthew) got baptized...

and our youngest (Emma) was blessed on the same day.

Scott left active duty, joined the Air Force Reserve...

...and got a new job

Check out the civilian clothes!!

So we moved west for his new job

(that makes five moves since we've been married)

 The kids and I stayed in Utah with my parents...

...and Scott worked in Silicon Valley for a year while our house was built

finally it was finished and we moved to Northern California all together

We loved California!!


but Scott got transferred after only two years,
 so we had to say goodbye to the ocean and California (tears)...


...and we moved to Utah (more tears)
Scott worked in SLC and we lived in Davis County
If you're a true Utah person you know where that is ;)

the kids loved the snow

and having a big yard with plenty of kids to play with

the big yard was a lot of work

but there were lots of fun things to do in and near Utah

 

quick anniversary trip to Chicago in 2019

and before we knew it, two years had passed in Utah

Aug 2018

Aug 2019

Oct 2019

We took a weeklong trip to Florida - just Scott and I - in January 2020, not long before the world shut down with Covid-19.  The timing of the trip was lucky for us.  Had we planned it too much later we probably couldn't have gone.  It was nice to have that trip.

...and Sept 2020 school year starting with remote learning

In Sept 2020 we said goodbye to Utah...

...and moved to Washington state

We had been wanting to move to the PNW for a while and changes due to coronavirus made it possible.  We are incredibly grateful Scott has a stable job during this time and they allowed us to make this move.

In spite of all the moving we've done in the past 15 years, Scott has only had two jobs during that time - active duty with the AF and working for the aerospace company that he still works with.  

Lots of moves but few job changes.

Getting settled in our new place in Washington

Sept 2020

 New adventures to come...

We feel so blessed to have five amazing kids.

We don't have updated professional pics of the kids for this year due to Covid-19, so some of these pictures are a year old now

Oct 2019

Sept 2020

Matthew - age 13

Likes D&D, wants to be a computer scientist, is a news anchor for the daily school news, likes to scramble on the boulders behind our house, starting to get into podcasts, kind hearted big brother, planning to organize a school D&D club with Anna

Oct 2019

Sept 2020
Anna - age 12

Reader of Agatha Christie, roller blader, ambitious crafter, would like to play Clue or Game of Life with you, on top of all her school subjects, currently enjoying the video game Stardew Valley, learning to cook many things, writing lots of letters to friends in Utah

Oct 2019

Sept 2020

Grant - age 9

Disappears into his own world to build things, likes to make silly videos, good hearted mischief maker, always hiding to scare people, I'm pretty sure he's planning a long con on us, likes to explore in the wild space with Matthew, often laughing, adventurous eater of vegetables

Oct 2019

Sept 2020

John - age 8

Mom's sous chef, currently proud to know his doubles math facts, Emma's Minecraft partner in crime, excited to be a top bunk bed boy, just lost his first tooth, he's pretty sure he looked handsome in his baptism clothes, adores dogs...if only from afar

Oct 2019

Sept 2020

Emma - age almost 6

Both eager and scared to ride a bike without training wheels, drawer of many many pictures, LOVES her kindergarten teacher...maybe too much, counting down to her birthday, loves all the Disney princesses, excited to see fall leaves, loves practicing her reading.

It's been a wonderful 15 years!!

Oct 2019

Oct 2020

 Happy Anniversary Scott

You're my person

to be continued...