Five Years of Madness

I can't believe our 5 year anniversary is next week! Sometimes it feels like we have been married forever and that this has just always been our life. At other times I feel like we are newly weds still feeling it all out. As I was reflecting on all the craziness that has happened during our first five years of marriage, I couldn't help but smile. So, I thought I would catch you all up with a "cliff notes" version of our last five years of "madness!"

Hi, nice to meet you!
Hey, I think I really like you.
Wanna start a family?
Hey Baby, we're gonna have a baby!
Wanna get married?
Okay, but let's wait a little while.
Never mind, let's get married 6 weeks from now so we can go to Guam together!
It's a long drive from Montana to California in a moving van while 5 months pregnant.
I do.
I do, too!
We're no longer going to Guam, instead we are moving to Washington.
Staying in a tiny hotel room for two months in San Diego while going to "school" counts as a honeymoon, right?
Thanksgiving and pneumonia are not a great combination.
Let's map out every hospital between San Diego and Bremerton, WA just in case baby decides to come while we're on the road!
We are never moving while pregnant again!
So glad baby was "late" so we could get a few more things unpacked in the house before he made his debut!
Sleep, what is that?
Hi Tala (kitty cat), it's nice to have you back from Colorado.
I wish this kid would take a bottle so my boobs could have more than an hours rest.
(7m later) I wish this kid hadn't started taking a bottle since that was the beginning of the end of breastfeeding.
Of course baby would say "dada" for the first time 3 hours after daddy leaves for deployment!
Nice to have you home!!
Hey Baby, we're gonna have another baby!
Donovan falls off slide and scares mom to death while trying to induce labor by walking/playing at the park.
Well hello sweet baby #2! You look nothing like your daddy, but exactly like your grand daddy!
Hello postpartum depression, you can go away any time you like.
Bye daddy.
Hello daddy!
Yay, Aunt Maddie got married!
Hey Baby, I know baby #2 is only 6 months old, but, we're gonna have a baby!
WHAT?!
Let's sell the house.
Okay.
We have a buyer! Looks like we better move into an apartment!
Oh, and we're going to be moving to Virginia in a couple months, so start planning a cross-country trip.
3 weeks on the road with a cat, baby, toddler, daddy, and very pregnant mommy is interesting.
I thought we said we were never gonna move while pregnant again?!
At least we had two months to get the house together this time. :)
Hello midwife, I think it's time for you to come to the house!
Well hello baby #3. It's so nice to be the first one to touch you earth side!
Let's take 3 kids in the van across the country for Aunt Shanna's wedding!
Can we not go anywhere, just for a little bit.
Hey, life has calmed down a bit and it has been nice to find a rhythm.
It has been nice. Let's get a puppy!
Hey, it's almost our five year anniversary... think we should do something crazy?
Sure!

Well, that's our marriage in a nut shell. Stay tuned to see where the madness will lead us next!