10 Years together

It is hard to believe, but Austin and I just celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary. We went to dinner (the Keg) and a movie (Harry Potter and the half-blood Prince), nothing to fancy as we will be going to Hawaii in November! Since I use the blog as a record of events I wanted to write some of our story down.
We meet at WSU at a Superbowl party in January of 97 and didn't start dating until the fall, September 97. I graduated from WSU in December of 97 and went back to walk with Austin when he graduated in May of 98. I moved to Oregon to start my Masters program at Lewis & Clark (6/98) and Austin followed to start his at Portland State (9/98). We dated for a year and 9 months and then became engaged in July of 98 and were married on July 24th 1999. Our first year of marriage we lived in an apartment in Tualitin Oregon. Austin finished up his Masters and I worked for the ESD as an Itinerant teacher of the Deaf. We moved back to Wa-Puyallup in the summer of 2000.
We bought our first house, Austin had a job with Rosewater that never happened instead he went to work for Barghausen and I worked for Puyallup. We had two dogs and too many changes in cars- Honda CRV to Jeep, VW Bug to Subaru to Chevy Truck, and then Jeep to Acura and Chevy to Dodge! Austin changed jobs to work at Parametrix, we moved to our current home and then the babies came! Kendall was born in 2003, Logan in 2005 and finally Avery in 2008. Lots of changes in jobs, cars and houses- all material things- some for the better and some not, but in the end family life is the greatest! Here's to 40 more years of changes and more importantly staying and growing together! Love ya hun!