To sum up our life...

After celebrating our fake anniversary, we went to the Macey's grocery store beside our apartment complex to get a yummy cake, and Jacob saw that sign. He bought it for me because he thought it adequately summed up our life since we got married.

We got married in June of 2009, shortly after Jacob was put on academic suspension from BYU, which also meant that he could no longer work at his job because he would no longer be attending BYU (he worked in the bookstore on campus).

Within a month from the day we got married, we got pregnant... still while Jacob was unemployed.

In March of 2010, we had our little Naomi-girl, and we decided that I would not be returning to teach next year so that I could raise her and be a stay-at-home mom. Jacob's current job didn't pay nearly enough for us to live on--we needed both of our incomes to survive--but we felt that it was the right decision despite the fact that we had no idea how it was going to work out.

In the beginning of June, Jacob lost his job, and we made a quick decision to move to Missouri at the end of the month. We had been planning on moving to Missouri anyway by the end of the year so Jacob could attend Mizzou (they have the program that he wants, and BYU does not), but since we had nothing holding us to Utah anymore, it made sense to move now. So we packed up everything we owned and drove across a few states to our new home... without having any money, a new job or a definite place to live. But again, we felt it was right, so we did it.

And now we are living with his family (more on that later), still penniless and job-searching... and still confident that somehow, everything will work out.

We couldn't wait for success, so we went ahead without it!