The 1 Year Anniversary of our 5 Year Plan

If I told you that Bo and I both have Futuristic as one of our top 5 strengths would you believe me?  What does that mean? We are forward looking thinkers that want to know where we are headed and not where we have been.  This is why from the time we got together we had a vision of our first 5 years.  This upcoming weekend we will celebrate the 1 year anniversary of our 5 year plan... huh, you ask?  We are celebrating our 6th wedding anniversary!  As this weekend approaches, I think about what we have accomplished and how blessed we are, and I get emotional.

Other than being a 5 year plan, we didn't necessarily set deadlines or due dates for each item. We just knew that this was what we wanted our first 5 years of marriage to look like: get married, pass our CPA tests, work hard to advance in our careers, live in an apartment to save money, buy an acreage lot, build a house, and then fill that house up with babies!  

Obviously our parents were proud of us for all of it, but their most popular question was "When are the babies coming?" This is how the plan got its "official" name... an easy response was we want to be married for 5 years before we have kids. That answer didn't stop the questions. Will you get pregnant at 5 years or have a baby at 5 years? And guess what...we almost nailed it, August 1, 2014 was our 5 year anniversary and 2 weeks later I went into labor!

While the first 5 years were great, this past year has been amazing!  There are no words to describe the joy that Dexter has brought to our family. The first 5 years were planned and thought out, but this year we have learned to fly by the seat of our pants! It has been a year of soul searching, finding the joy in life and becoming comfortable in our own skin!  

Bo became the family chef, searching and trying new clean recipes to help fuel us and keep up with a baby on the move.  Dexter has become our Coach and motivator to work out and continue to push ourselves. With these changes, our happiness and stress levels have changed drastically, we have become comfortable in our own skin.  Finding the "Why" in our lives has made all the difference!

As we celebrate this past year, you can be sure we have started to think about the next five years and the things we hope to be celebrating on the 1 year anniversary of our 10 year plan!