Four Years Ago Today...

...Jake and I were married on the sandy white beach at the Riu Negril in Jamaica. We were joined by our family and close friends and celebrated by ringing in the New Year the next day as a married couple with a pretty sweet tan (or, in Jake's case, a nasty New Year's Eve Day sunburn).

Our wedding day was one of the happiest days of my life, and something I wouldn't change one thing about. Everything was absolutely perfect and we were blessed with friends and family who believed so much in Jake and I as a couple that they were willing to fly to another country to witness our marriage -- with only two months notice. Shotgun wedding due to a pregnancy perhaps (for those of you who don't know the whole story)? No, no, no. That wasn't the case at all. It was more of a shotgun wedding due to a pending deployment. Which, was delayed for eight months after the wedding. We were thankful to have that eight months together as newlyweds though, that's for sure.

Let's see... to sum up the past four years as the Sherman's:
- we married in Jamaica
- April got a new job with Wells
- Jake continued locking things down at Central Middle School
- we said bye-bye to the city and hello to Hartford when we bought our new home
- got a puppy
- Jake was deployed
- April got another job with Wells
- Jake returned in '06
- April got pregnant
- Bought two new vehicles
- Bought two snowmobiles
- Bought an ATV (reckless spenders, much?)
- April got another job with Wells (seriously)
- Bought a nursery set
- Had our baby Layla Jennifer
- Wrecked one snowmobile
- Sold the other (cuz we're grown ups)
- Killed a bunch of deer
- Won the lottery (hehe... who's still paying attention)
- Lived happily ever after

Happy Anniversary Babe! Love you!