Hello friends and family,

We are so excited to celebrate our 10 year wedding anniversary this November!! In our 10 years we've accomplished much together. We've begun raising 4 children, acquired 3 degrees, moved three times, lived in 3 states, bought and sold a home, paid off all Sam's student loans, and worked really, really hard to stay out of debt (except for Jeremiah loans from undergrad). Clearly we've been busy and we attribute the growth of our successful marriage to each other but also to you, our "village."

We feel so supported in so many ways by so many of you- either financially at times, with gifts of hand-me-downs or birthday money or watching our kids or with rich and meaningful friendships.

We've been fortunate to travel to many places together with our children. But we have yet to take a vacation, just us, and not traveling for the purpose of seeing family (which we genuinely love to do!).

For our wedding anniversary, we are planning a Staycation. No accommodations, no car rental or flight plans needed. The kids are staying with family and we get our home to ourselves for an entire week!!

A trip like this, even though it's a staycation, is simply not in our budget. At all. (San Diego on one post-doc income is no joke!)So we thought we'd give you the opportunity to "sponsor" part or all of an activity for our 10 year anniversary.

Some things we will be doing but that aren't listed here because they don't cost anything:

-Visiting the San Diego LDS Temple

-Some house projects we've been meaning to get to

-Hiking in Torrey Pines and Mt. Woodson

-picnic and sunset at Sunset cliffs

-San Diego Zoo (we have a pass)

-The Natural History Museum (we have a pass)

-Scavenger hunt in Balboa Park (purchased many years ago and never finished it)

Thanks for your consideration and support in helping us make our 10 year anniversary one to remember.

With love,

Jeremiah and Sam