"5 years is almost 7 years and 7 years is practically a decade"

This is how I justify telling Josh that we've been married for "nearly a decade," but I guess the world has only had the pleasure of the ShepAlder union for 5 years as of... TODAY!

During my staff retreat last Wednesday, one of the "getting-to-know-you" questions was "What 30 seconds of your life would you choose to relive if you only had 30 seconds to live?" I chose these 30 seconds:

We had been married less than a year and were at Disneyland together for the first time. My grad program hadn't yet gotten stressful and we didn't yet know how hard the next few years would be both personally and professionally. We were just newly married, at Disneyland, and extremely happy. We had probably eaten at the Blue Bayou earlier in the day and watched the fireworks from Splash Mountain. It doesn't get more perfect than that.

Happy Anniversary, Schwobes! I'm sorry I made you move to North Dakota, but at least you have been spared from living in Utah. ;)