25 Years

Today is our happy anniversary. 25 years of wedded bliss and a crazy amount of kids has been a ton of fun! Joseph let us know that 25 years is a Silver anniversary. So I guess our children should have bought us some silver gifts or something? 50 years is Golden anniversary. I don't know who made up these rules... Anyway, here are a few stats - 

• 32 years since our first date - May 15, 1992
• 29 years since our first kiss
• 25 years of marriage
• 24 years of diapers
• 13 kids - JMEHWALSNODPK, also known as Joseph, Melodie, Ethan, Hyrum, Wesley, Abigail, Lilian, Sophia, Natalie, Owen, Daniel, Peter, Katharine
• 11 houses (Orem basement, BYU green basement, Pink house on 10th east, Wyview, Centreville VA, the Chacara in Barão Geraldo Brazil, Crosswood House, Villareal Costa Rica, Santiago Chile
•  Current corner of heaven, Campinas Brazil, back to Granite home sweet home)
• 10 years of pregnancy 
• 10 moves
• 8 cars (Helen's Oldsmobile, Pathfinder, White Van, Chrysler Van, Hyundai, Fiesta, Odyssey, Pilot)
• 4 countries

Junior Prom 1992

"Forever Young"

So another year down, an eternity to look forward to! We are taking a rain check on our anniversary date. We might try to sneak away this weekend? But Corey might be going to Arizona for his aunts funeral. Perhaps after the wedding? We didn't do anything today because Peter is sick and we didn’t want to leave him to go skiing or anything. 

(And Corey lent out his skis to a friend anyway...) Corey's been working from home in our bedroom, where he has been sitting as a vigilant sentinel over Peter's current health status. Peter's been coughing, watching Mandalorian, taking baths, and eating bread with Nutella. Joseph and Mel were here this morning, Mel did all the dishes from yesterday, for which I gifted her one of the feast's leftover bags of strawberry yogurt covered pretzels. They headed out around noon, Mel went with J in his car. Hyrum is still here and will be borrowing Mel's car to drive up to Rexburg tomorrow. He's taking her car so he can come back down for the wedding in two weeks. I think I'm in denial about the amount of urgency I should be feeling about wedding prep stuff. Last minute panic should be hitting me soon. Hyrum's siblings enjoyed having him (and his phone) around today - 

There they are, wasting time on screens again... None of them have been very productive. For the past few weeks, I've been taking phones away from Lily and Sophi after they get home from school, but when it's a holiday it throws me off cause they had them most of they day until my after school alarm went off. So then I took their phones, and I got a kick out of Sophi's alarm to practice violin...

So yeah, we just hung around here at home today. So what will the next 25 years bring? I'm excited to find out! Here is how we celebrated our love over the past 25 years. 

1999 - Marriage - Honeymoon at the Homestead in Midway, Utah (Dinner at the Lion House)

2000 - 1 Year, went Blue Boar Inn in Midway, Utah (Dinner at the Roof and the Blue Boar Inn)

2001 - 2 years, went to the Worldmark resort at Wolf Creek in Eden, Ogden Canyon, Utah

2002 - 3 years - Pepperdine Weekend at Malibu, California (Corey was there being recruited for his MBA so we turned it into a trip) I was 8 months pregnant with Ethan.

2003 - 4 years - Wharton Visit in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and trip to Washington DC

2004 - 5 years - Homestead in Midway, Utah 

2005 - 6 years - Hotel Monaco at Salt Lake City, Utah (Dinner at the Roof)

2006 - 7 years - JW Marriott and Teotihuacan in Mexico City, Mexico, with baby Wesley in tow

2007 - 8 years, Barao Geraldo Chacara in Campinas, Sao Paulo Brazil. We had just moved to Brazil for our first adventure and Corey spent the day looking for a car with a friend, and I spent it with his friend's wife learning Portuguese. 

2008 - 2010 - undocumented here on the blog, so sad. We were living in Sandy in the Crosswood house at the time... him, I'll have to go break out the scrapbooks to remember what we did.

2011 - 12 years - in Chile, took little Abi to the ER after getting her finger slammed in a door by the wind in our windy apartment.

2012 - 13 years - Skiing and The Roof with baby Sophi

2013 - 14 years - a romantic dinner for 10, went to Park City, kids stayed with Corey's parents, bought red flower framed pictures.

2014 - 15 years - Skiing at Solitude

2015 - 16 years - Dinner at the Garden Restaurant, Night at Grand America, pregnant with Owen

2016 - 17 years, Corey and I took a little early anniversary trip to Hawaii in Jan, found out we're expecting again, Feb we had our anniversary family dinner

2017 - 18 years - I uploaded our wedding video to Youtube, went to San Diego and Tijuana

2018 - 19 years of family pictures, big snow storm on our anniversary

2019 - 20 years - Grand America with baby Peter and night skiing at Brighton. I made a list of 12 kids, 10 moves, 7 cars, 4 countries, and 2500+ blog posts

2020 - 21 years Bed and Breakfast fail, then Hotel Monaco, family breakfast feast, 21 years and a little trivia

2021 - 22 years Jackson Hole and Grand Targhee anniversary Ski Trip turned Family ski trip, Wasatch Broiler for lunch, Tuscany for dinner, family dinner

2022 - 23 years - Skiing at Brighton and dinner at LaCaille, 7th annual Anniversary feast

2023 - 24 years, Night at Wolfcreek, Skiing at Snowbasin, Dinner at Miyazaki, Climbing at Momentum, Illustrated book by Mel and Lily, anniversary feast

2024 - Silver Anniversary! Peter sick, anniversary feast