When we got married, I was pretty vocal about how I hated the term “settling down” as a way to describe getting married. I always thought that phrase made it sound like you would hang up your adventure cleats for good and spend the rest of your life with evening sitcoms and herbal tea.
I did not want our lives to turn into that.
💬 Narrator: Their lives did not turn into that.
The past five years have been something else. They’ve brought me some of my most joyful moments and some of the hardest challenges I’ve ever faced.
And I’m so, so thankful that I’ve gotten to share all of it with Deanna
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There’s no way to describe the pain of dealing with seeing your new wife face a severe lung infection in your first year of marriage, or the gratitude that’s accompanied the medical breakthroughs, recoveries, and miracles that have happened since.
There’s no way to describe the slow torture of trying for a long time unsuccessfully to become parents, or the joy of having Rhys show up when we least expected, totally healthy, full of his own unique energy.
And whether we’re exploring South Africa, Iceland, and Italy or locked down because of a worldwide pandemic... hanging with the ups and downs of pursuing dream careers... or just chasing Beignet around the ocean, there’s no one I’d rather do this with.
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Happy anniversary, hun. There have been a lot of challenges but it’s been the best five years. And I think it keeps getting better.