2 months later than I planned

This post should have been done back in June. Better late than never.

On June 11th, Justin and I celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary.

In some ways it is hard to believe it has already been 5 years, but when you look at all we have been through you would think we had been married quite a bit longer.

Since we have been married we have:

• Dealt with being unemployed and unable to find a job (luckily only for me and not both of us)
• Lived in an apartment that we were busting out of the seams in
• Bought a car together
• Taken some nice little vacations while childless with 2 incomes
• Were greeted with the first 2 tropical storms of the season for both our first (in Destin, FL) and our second (in Orlando, FL) anniversary
• Moved half-way across the country
• Bought our first house
• Suffered through infertility
• Justin was diagnosed with an incurable chronic illness
• Went through in vitro
• Gone through 4 hurricanes together
• Lived without electricity for 2 days (which was 2 days too long)
• Justin has had 3 major surgeries
• I had to be hospitalized and put on bedrest the last 10 days of pregnancy
• Had a 6 week premature baby

We have gone from right out of school, completely broke and in overwhelming debt; to two nice incomes and living comfortably as we paid off debt and saved money; to one nice income and one small income from a part-time job back down to one income again (and feeling broke due to the cost of diapers and formula).

We are glad that some of the things that drive some couples apart have only brought us closer to one another. It has been an amazing 5 years and we know that things will only get better.