Jamie & Joshua: Five Years Together!

Last week we celebrated our 5th Anniversay! It is about time that we start documenting our journey - here are some highlights of the the last five years.

~YEAR FIVE~

October 2009 - September 2010

Signed papers to start construction on our new home on our 5th anniversay. It will be in Lehi, UT and will be completed around December 6th

Blessed Lillie on September 5, 2010

Welcomed Lillie Ann Solomon into our lives on August 16, 2010 at 12:55 pm. She weighed 7 lbs 3 ozs and was 20 inches long and had hair! Here is a picture just hours after she was born.

Found out we were having a girl in March 2010

Jamie graduated in December 2009 with her Masters of Accountany.

Found out we were pregnant on December 6, 2009 - due around August 12, 2010

~YEAR FOUR~

October 2008 - September 2009

Both graduated with our BS degress from UVU in December 2008 - Jamie's degree in accounting and Josh's in Information Systems Management

Jamie started her Master of Accountancy degree at the University of Utah in January 2009. She commuted every day to be in class at 7:30 am

~YEAR THREE~

October 2007 - September 2008

Purchased our next home - a condo in Orem in May 2008. Growing up, Monopoly was my favorite game so we decided to pursue it is real life. We rented our townhome in Provo and decided to purchase a Condo that needing fixing up and the we would rent it. We planned to only live in the house six months and then move, but we ended up hear for for 2.5 years. We spent an entire year retexturing and painting the walls, new tile & carpet, refinished the cabinets, put in a new bath and adjusted a wall in the bathroom.

Jamie started working part-time at Universal Industrial Sales, Inc in August 2008. Planned on only being there during school, but ended up being a flexible place to enable us to start a family.

We added the first addition to our family in November 2007- Tobias J Solomon aka Toby - our handsome miniature schnauzer. We got him when he was six weeks old and we sure love him.

Josh took first place in the UVU business competition winning $3,000.

~YEAR TWO~

October 2006 - September 2007

Went to Mexico for 10 days in April 2006 - Unfortunately we lost all our pictures to a hard drive crash, but here are some on facebook - http://www.facebook.com/#!/album.php?aid=20706&id=513118780

Purchased our first town home in Provo, UT in July 2007

Josh starting working for ACR in March 2007 and we both continued school at UVSC.

~YEAR TWO~

October 2005 - September 2006

Both graduated from the LDSBC in December 2005 (We will not miss that place) and Jamie started Spring Semester at BYU on a full tuition scholarship and had to transfer to UVSC in August 2006 to complete her degree where she could work full-time keeping our insurance benefits to maintain Josh's health care while finishing school

Jamie worked at Washington Mutual, BYU and then started at Countrywide Home Loans, Josh started working at UVU in September.

Josh had to start 8 weeks of radiation treatment in November 2005 on his pituaray tumor and was not able to go to school or work for about 9 months of our first year of marriage - we had so many miracles and were so blessed during this time in our lives.