Happy Anniversary Bebes!!

Today is our 5th anniversary (yay!), and unfortunately Jeff is in California (boo!). That's why we went to the coast last weekend, and the weekend before that we went out on a date with just the two of us. But still, it kind of sucks to be alone on your anniversary. Oh well - not having Jeff with me right now just makes me appreciate him more. I've got to say, I feel pretty dang lucky to have Jeff in my life. He is fun, caring, smart, and let's admit it, pretty dang sexy. And he is absolutely the best dad to our little boy. I love you so much Jeff and am so blessed and thankful to be able to spend eternity with you.

Jeff and I met in our singles ward in Whittier, CA when I moved there to go to college. We knew of each other - I played the piano for him to sing a few times and he helped me move a few times. But it wasn't until the last move (it was in November 2002) that I think things started to click. He road in the U-haul with me and that was the first time it was just the two of us. But we didn't go on our first date until December 18, 2002 (call me lame, but I remember dates like this). He took me to Benihana, which I love, and then we saw Lord of the Rings. He proposed on February 7, 2003 at Laguna Beach, which is where we also had our first kiss on New Year's Eve. I knew we were going to get married before he did - I had a couple of dreams - kind of weird, I know. Then we were sealed for time and eternity in the Los Angeles, CA temple on June 7, 2003. Here are some pics from back then:

This was our reenactment of the proposal at Laguna Beach - this was the actual bench that we sat on. When he proposed he said this cute little poem that ended with "...will you be my wife." I don't remember the whole poem. I wish I could have recorded it or something because it was way cute, but I didn't know he was going to propose at that moment and he made the poem up on the spot.

I, of course, said yes

This was our engagement picture.

This was while we were dating - before he got a haircut

And this was after - much better :)

This was the day that I received my endowments - we went to a friend's wedding right after so this is at the reception.

This was the only good picture from the wedding that I had on the computer - we haven't scanned all of the pictures into the computer yet, which is a bummer because there are way cuter pictures than this.

On the cruise ship on our honeymoon

Mayan ruins in Belize

In Florida after the cruise ship got back - we had one day in Florida before we went home.

No, of course these aren't real - on that day in Florida we got henna tatoos.

So that's how our life together began. We lived in Anaheim, CA for two years where both of us worked, then we moved to Portland, OR where Jeff finished up his prerequisites at MHCC then started going to WSCC. During Jeff's second quarter at WSCC Porter joined our family and has been an absolute joy. That brings us to now, five years later and lovin life. We hope that in the many, many years to come we will just keep adding to our family and enjoying every moment of eternity that we get to be together.