Josh Gad Thanks Spouse Ida Darvish for Saying ‘Sure to This Bundle of Idiocy’

Glad anniversary, Josh Gad and Ida Darvish!

The couple lately celebrated their seventeenth wedding ceremony anniversary collectively on Could 11, Gad shared in a submit to Instagram. The pair of actors, who share two youngsters collectively, met in 2004 after co-starring in a small Santa Monica manufacturing and wed 4 years later.

“17 years and counting. On daily basis, I pinch myself that you just mentioned sure to this bundle of idiocy and madness,” Gad, 44, wrote within the submit’s caption. “Thanks for becoming a member of me on this journey referred to as life and for giving us two lovely and superb women. Love you babe.”

The actor shared a equally candy tribute to his spouse the 12 months prior, through which he joked their marriage might “legally have its personal driver’s license.” He added that their partnership has been by way of a variety of unexpected challenges, however with “presents we by no means might have imagined,” he wrote in a submit.

Gad — greatest identified for his position as Olaf in Frozen — and Darvish, who cast a profitable profession as a online game voice actor, first linked after they portrayed a married couple in David Ives’ play All within the Timing.

“I fell head-over-heels for her. On the time, she was 29 and I used to be 23, and we had been each shocked after we discovered the opposite individual’s age,” he recalled to The i Paper. “It was a type of issues the place it was simply kismet and we’ve been collectively ever since.”

The longtime couple now shares two daughters: Ava Tanya, 14, and Isabella Eve, 11.

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Through the COVID-19 pandemic, the couple needed to navigate their youngsters’s distant studying, Gad informed PEOPLE in December 2020. Ultimately, the 2 women grew to become “execs at digital faculty,” which Gad fully credit to his spouse.

“The true hero of the second is my spouse, Ida,” Gad informed PEOPLE. “For someone who by no means signed as much as be a trainer or a principal, she’s completed an unbelievable job at being each.”