Happy Anniversary

Today is our 7th anniversary. Time sure flies when you are having fun!

Wednesday May 15, 2002. A beautiful day.
For those like of you that are like us. We love looking at pictures.

First date - Saturday, April 25, 1998. Cari asked Lance out so he would lose a bet to her friend Ashley (wearing blue).
It took Lance a while to get things figured out. For some reason Cari stuck with Lance who definitely didn't deserve it. Lance was (and in some ways still is) a grumpy, temperamental, unrefined, misguided, miscreant who didn't deserve anyone half as good as Cari - something Melissa Combs has pointed out a few times. :-) It took a while, but he finally got his act together in 2001 and proposed during Cari's College French class trip to La Caille

Definitely a bit nervous.

Its official, finally engaged - Wednesday, November 14, 2001To bad the engagement ring was too small - doh!

Engagement picture

One of Cari's bridals

Isn't she just beautiful! She's more beautiful today!

So what has happened to us in the last year of our marriage. Lets just point out a few of the more note worry ones. Feel free to bail out and stop reading now.

• Lance finishes his first wood working project - bunkbeds for the girls.
• Finally paint & decorate the kids rooms
• Lainey gets wood embedded in her cheek which ends up basically tattoos the skin!
• Lilly decides not to walk for a couple days and freak us out - then all of a sudden is fine.
• Cari's pregnancy resulted in a lot of weird symptoms in Lance - he had a lot of uncontrollable cravings, experienced heartburn, and developed allergies to everything after a life of no allergies.
• We welcomed our third child into the World, Gordon Hans Jessup, and are officially outnumbered.
• Lilly gives all her diapers to Gordon and potty trains herself
• Lainey started Pre-school
• Finally put in a patio & got a patio set for the back yard
• Cari had her gallbladder removed
• Lainey broke her arm for a third time (she was only 4 at the time!) - "No more broken arms!" is said a lot at our home.
• Lance catches up to Cari in callings for 24 hours (we each had 2) until she was extended a third calling and took the lead yet again. As she says: "I just can't focus on one thing at a time, otherwise I get bored."
  
• Lance: Cubmaster, Primary teacher
  
• Cari: Activity Days, Primary teacher, YW Stake Camp Committee
• Lainey thinks that she is just as capable of being in charge as Cari - the expression "Lainey you aren't the mom" is said a lot.
• Lance and Cari found out that Lance is a total Scout geek! "Scout geek Lance" is comparable to "Camp Cari", however Camp Cari only comes out once a year and not at home. "Scout geek Lance" has come out and won't go away. :-)
• Cari finally finds a pair of jeans she loves - Lance rips them - sorry :-(
• Lance's turtle of 19.5 years died. We organized our first funeral.
• Lance in his laundry tasks accidentally changes the color of a new shirt Cari loves (may have happened a couple times) - the phrase "Why do you always have to ruin the things I love?" becomes a common expression in our home.
• Lilly started dance
• We have cleaned up more pee around the house then ever before (not Gordon)
• Started our first garden
• Cari really starts to worry about turning 30, although she has some time still
• Lance goes a full year without any trips for work and can now donate blood after being banned for a year after his last trip to India & Signapore in April 2008.
• Lance & Cari finally join the facebook action. Cari of course is much more popular then Lance - no surprise.
• many, many, more...
  

Here's to another year of many more to come!