As of an hour ago, it has been 5 years since our wedding day, and what a 5 years of marriage it has been as Mr. and Mrs. Ostler! We have had so many adventures together, and are looking forward to many, many more!!!
Our anniversary gift to ourselves this year. We just LOVE it!
Kissing on “our” bridge that we got engaged on (while still engaged) and then kissing on a bridge during our family pictures last fall.
Our wedding day-Friday the 13th of June 2008, and a picture taken our first wedding anniversary.
A lot has happened over the past 5 years. Way too much to cover very well with just one post, but I have summed it all up, in a nutshell with a list of 5 things (one for each year). There have been SO many memories, emotions and blessings that have flooded these past 5 years. It has also been quite the rollercoaster. Here are my 5 things to sum up our 5 years of marriage:
1. We have moved 13 times since we got married! Crazy, I know! Even crazier? All but one of those times was during our first year and a half of marriage-can you believe that?! I am definitely glad things have calmed down since then. Here some pictures of a few of the places we have lived.
Our first apartment in Perry, UT
Our apartment in Westminster, CO
The home we were house sitters in, in Centennial, CO for a few months.
Our apartment in Murray, UT
…and finally last, but most certainly not least-the town house we own and live in now! Our first house and we LOVE it here!
2. We have celebrated 4 anniversaries and are looking forward to celebrating our 5th today (if I ever make it to bed…) with some more fun and adventures.
3. We have enjoyed tons of activities for each and every season, each year for the past 5 years!
Spring fun on the trampoline, walks along the river, at BBQ’s and swimming at Crystal Hot Springs!
Summer fun boating and tubing at Willard Bay, playing at Bear Lake, and hiking in Arches National Park in Moab!
Fall fun with road trips and camping (even if it was cold), and fun playing in the leaves and enjoying the beautiful leaves up in the canyon!
Winter fun ice-skating in Logan (where we used to go when were dating), at Salt Lake City for more skating, enjoying the lights at Temple Square, and hardcore sledding up in the canyon.
4. Of this entire list, this is our greatest blessing thus far-we had our first baby-our precious Jayden Benjamin Ostler!!! Oh the joys he has brought us with his fun and diverse personality (as the pictures below capture perfectly)! I can’t wait for more adventures with more babies! You can tell this has been our favorite experience over the past 5 years with all the pictures it contains. Being a parent is the BEST part of life in our opinion!!!
A family photo with Jayden when he was 2 weeks old, and a family photo of us with Jayden just before he turned 1 year old.
Jayden at 3 days old to almost a year old! That year went by way too fast if you ask me. Here are some highlights of Jayden since he has been a part of our life! We just LOVE having him in it!!!
He just fits right in around here!
Love him, LoVe him, LOVE him!!!
5. We got a dog! We love our best friend, Caleb! He is such a great addition to our family and I can’t imagine it without him!
We LOVE our puppy!
He also has a LOT of personality to go alongside that of his baby’s. It is so cute, whenever we ask Caleb where “his baby” is, he hurry’s to find Jayden and lay down by him. It just about kills Ben and I it is so cute! Jayden does the same thing when we ask him to find “his doggie”. They just love each other!
Boy has our not-so-little-at-all-anymore-puppy grown in the year we have had him!
It has been an incredible 5 years, and I am looking forward to many, many more throughout eternity with my Ben and our little family! I love you, Benjamin Luke Ostler! Thank you for choosing me to be your wife! I am the luckiest girl in the word! I love life with you, and can’t wait to see what else life has in store for us!!!
HAPPY 5 YEAR ANNIVERSARY, SWEETHEART!!!
Love,
Danae
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