a decade

Tyson and I just celebrated our 10 year anniversary yesterday.

Here we are on July 12, 2002:

Here we are on July 12, 2012:

Tyson's new associate and family volunteered to babysit our kids, and so we took off into the sunset for a nice dinner and dessert. We were supposed to go on some amazing vacation together, but we knew we were going to be buying a practice... so we chose to take the kids to CA with us, drop them off at my in laws and stay at a beach cottage in Crystal Cove. Well, plans change. Tyson got a new calling in church, and is the Scout leader. He has to go on the High adventure with the Scouts. It is the week that we were supposed to be in CA, so I am going with the twins to visit, and we will just go to Costa Rica next year with our friends instead.

We thought, he we have been married for 10 years, we need to eat somewhere fancy!

So we picked this restaurant called Bently's. 

It wasn't good.

We realized we aren't fancy dinner people.

We would have rather gone to Willamette Burger Company and noshed on some excellent burgers than eat expensive food that you don't get much of.

While at dinner though, we wrote out all the things we have done in our 10 years of marriage...

I never thought that in just 10 years we would go from poor college students to owning our own thriving medical practice.

What a run...

Wanna know?

2002-2003

MARRIED! Jen graduated from BYU.

Managed apartments.

2003-2004

Jen's first year of teaching Kindergarten.

Tyson graduated from BYU.

Managed apartments.

2004-2005

Moved to Walnut Creek, CA

Tyson started Medical School

Jen taught a 4/5 Combo

2005-2006

Podiatry School

Traveled 20,000 miles in one summer : 

Lake Charles, Louisiana

Las Vegas, Nevada

Ketchican, Alaska

Oahu, Hawaii

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Hannibal, Missouri

St. Louis, Missouri

Springfield, Missouri

Nauvoo, Illinois

2006-2007

Pregnant with Twins

Had twins!

Podiatry School

2007-2008

Traveled for Podiatry School rotations

Arizona, Texas, California

Tyson graduated from Podiatry School!!

2008-2009

Moved to Huntington Beach, CA

Started residency

2009-2010

Lived it up at the Beach!

(Sometimes I wish I took more advantage of living in such a beautiful place, and then sometimes I think, "I did take advantage of living in such a beautiful place."

Residency

2010-2011

Got pregnant with Quincy!

Residency

2011-2012

Quincy!!!

Moved to Oregon for our first "big boy job"!

Bought a medical practice!

(This year was crazy, and although exciting, I don't want to do that much in one year again.)

We have had a great 10 years! I look forward to the next 10 years!

He is the peanut butter to my jelly, my partner in crime, the man of my dreams, my main squeeze, my McDreamy, my companion, the father of my children, my best friend, and my love.

Sharing a gelato crepe.