Jenelle Evansand David Eason are celebrating two years of marriage.
In honor of their second wedding anniversary on Monday, theTeen Mom 2alumna and her husband posted tributes to each other on social media.
Sharing the same set of photos, Easonwrote, “Happy 2nd wedding anniversary to us babe!”
There’s no doubt that the past four years have been a roller-coaster of ups and downs for the couple.
Earlier this year, Evans and Eason temporarilylost custody of their childrenin May after heshot and killed their family dog,Nugget, for biting 2-year-old daughter Ensley in the face. Two months later, Evansregained custody.
On July 3, a judge in Evans’ custody trial case ruled that her 5-year-old sonKaiser— whom she shares with ex Nathan Griffith — and Ensley would be returned to her,TMZ reported.
Kaiser’s father, Griffith, was ordered to return his son to Evans, TMZ reported. According to the outlet, Evans’ mother, Barbara Evans, still maintained custody of Jace, 10. (Evans shares Jace with exAndrew Lewis.)Eason’s other daughter, Maryssa, was, at the time, in the custody of her mother Whitney Johnson, according to E! News.
Speaking withPEOPLE Nowexclusively earlier this month, Evans said that her marriage to Eason is “stronger than ever.”
“I mean, especially because of the [child protective services] thing that happened. We had to be so strong during that,” she said. “It was so hard to just hear accusations as a parent that aren’t true.”
As Evans reflected on the difficult two months that her children were separated from her and Eason, she began to cry.
“Having to go through that as a couple, sorry,” Evans toldPEOPLE Now, tearing up. “Not being around your kids for two months for no reason and there was no evidence or anything against us. And that’s why it was ultimately dismissed.”
Jenelle Evans and David Eason.Jenelle Evans Eason/Instagram
“My house is just so alive and my kids are there every day. And then to wake up and it’s so silent and it’s only me and him — and we usually cook breakfast every morning and they were gone,” she said.
During thePEOPLE Nowinterview, she also defended her husband, whoconfirmed for the first time that he killed Nuggetand explained his reasoning for doing so.
“It was a situation where my daughter, her health, her safety was in danger,” Eason explained, referencing Ensley.
“This was something that nobody wants to ever have to do. The dog was aggressive. Yes, she might not be huge or whatever, but you know when a dog bites a child on the face more than one time, then it should never be around the child again,” he added. “If you give the dog up for adoption, one day it’s going to be around children again.”
Coming to Eason’s defense, Evans later said: “David has grown up in the country lifestyle — he hunts, he fishes. The way he was raised is really different than a lot of other places. We understand that people ares scared of the whole gun thing, [but] they just don’t understand it from David’s perspective.”
source: people.com
