Five Years!

Last Saturday we celebrated five years of marriage. What amazing wonderful five years we have had. The Lord has truly blessed us with a wonderful relationship and wonderful experiences. We now have two beautiful and fun little girls and a house full of adventures.

Matty made the day so very special for me. I was so blessed by the way he showed me how much he loves me and cares for me. But while we were there talking and thinking about five years ago, it brought us back to the Source of life...we wanted to thank the Lord for our salvation. Because He saved us we can have a wonderful relationship and have been able to enjoy so much joy and peace over these past five years and since we came to know Him. His Word says, "taste and see that the Lord is good. Blessed is he who puts his hope in him." We are so very grateful for His Salvation and as we celebrate five wonderful years of marriage, we also celebrate His goodness toward us. Where would we be without him?? I am not sure of this, but I know that it would not be the full and blessed life that we live now.

Here are some details of our celebration:

• Matt took me to a hotel restaurant where we were taken to a private corner balcony on about the 4th floor where he had arranged to have a very nice table for us.



• Matt had bought roses earlier and taken them to the hotel for them to set at the table too!


• Champagne


• A very nice dinner: we ate fresh seafood with the ocean waves crashing on the beach below our balcony


• They even made a heart-shaped cake for us



• And the nicest thing of all that I look forward to almost every year is that Matty writes me a love letter and they just fill up my love tank!


• We had planned to go dancing after dinner but when we went to the disco, we were not too excited about dancing there, so when we got home, Matt put on some Ella Fitzgerald (slow jazz) and we had a couple of dances at home :)

We had a wonderful time celebrating--talking and sharing and just enjoying in the goodness of the Lord.

Well Lidia, that was a great summary, but you left out a bunch... We have been blessed to be in a beautiful location for both our 1st and 5th anniversaries. The 1st was on the Bay Islands of Honduras, and now the 5th was here on the north coast. I have been blessed to have such an amazing wife with whom to share these anniversaries. Sometimes when she is talking to me, I have trouble listening, because I start to think, "how in the world am I so blessed to have this beautiful woman as my wife?" and then I have to pull myself back and remember that I need to be able to respond to her when she finishes and asks me, "So what do you think about what I just said?" :) Lidia is an amazing wife; amazing woman; amazing mom; amazing helpmate; amazing friend. I could not do this life without her and the Lord has used her to get me going on all these adventures! I am absolutely blessed to have a woman who loves the Lord deeply and is continously loving Him more. This makes her love for me possible. She is truly selfless and ever-growing in her love for me and for the girls. The Lord has lavishly blessed me with my Lidia and I am deeply thankful each day that our lives are forever woven together. I love you my poema.