We have been married for 31 years and have 5 adult children (1 boy and 4 girls). We have been gifted a firm foundation with both of our parents who have now been married for 60+ years. We were married while Doug was attending dental school and had our first child before he graduated. We lived in married student housing at the time with few modern conveniences – like dishwashers and in-house laundry machines. Tami worked outside the home until our 3rd child was born and then quit her job as a physical therapist to stay home full time. While there have been many self inflicted stressors throughout our marriage, including starting and running a dental business, helping plant a church, and help starting a private Christian school in the valley as well as home schooling our children in their early years, we consistently prioritized our relationship with God first and foremost, and our marriage was a close second. While it’s not been without effort and some bumps, our relationship has regularly been and continues to be the largest blessing in our lives. We would be happy to share some of the things that we have learned from our mistakes and also some of the things we did with intention that we believed produced good fruit.