6 Years of Joy

So, Yesterday, although a little early, I celebrated 6 years with my beautiful bride! It was a great day. Here are some of the highlights!

Our day started off with more celebration of Courtney's birthday. Sheesh...must be nice. Today we had breakfast at the PCH Grill with Lilo and Stitch! (another really cool character dining experience) It was really fun. Lilo and Stitch joined us for breakfast and brought the kids in for hula lessons, as well as a couple other cool games and activities. All of the food was really yummy and and the kids had a blast. I was really excited today because, although she has riden it before quite a few times, Courtney began to fear Splash Mountain and refused to ride with us until yesterday! I really wanted her to ride wuth us so she finally did! The picture that was taken was priceless; it really captured the sheer terror on her face as we plunged down the 50 foot drop. She lived to see another day, contrary to what she had expected. We also caught a few of our very favorite shows at Disneyland yesterday; The Aladdin Musical at California Adventure, and Billy Hill and the Hillbillies in Frontierland! Both are REALLY great entertainment! If you ever get over to the happiest place on earth, I suggest you check those two shows! The next highlight of my day came in the form of communication with a great friend of mine from home; Preston! It was so cool to get a call from him just to say that he hoped we were having a great time! We also talked a little about some exciting ministry opportunities we have coming up in the future. I love Preston and his family and I'm SO looking forward to serving along side him. I can't wait to get back; The Weekend 2008 at Calvary Santa Fe is only a couple weeks away! I'm really looking forward to it! Anyway, as a perfect end to my day, I settled the kids at the hotel with dinner and a movie (the hotel room has a dvd player) and then I took my wife on a wonderful date to THE BEST meal we've had yet; a little place called Steakhouse 55 here in the Disneyland Hotel. We had, probably the best filet mignon I've ever had with a couple really killer side dishes. This was definitely THE highlight of the trip for me. Just a little alone time with my wife, over a really great meal, at one of our favorite places in the world. I can't tell you how much we both enjoyed our time together. It has truly been an awesome six years with my best friend on this earth, and it seems to get better every year. One of the cool things about marriage is that it points to something much greater; our relationship with Christ! As Christians, we're called the bride of Christ. Although our marriage relationship should point to Chrst, my fallen and flawed love for Kristi, as great as it is, could NEVER in a million years compare to God's unconditional and unending love for His bride; the church! Be encourgaed to know that, if you belong to God, He loves you with a special and jealous love! Just like I am a jealous husband, and want all of my wifes affections to be for me, so God wants all of our affections to be for Him; not the things of this world. And even though we don't live up to that expectation, and we DO desire "stuff" more than we desire Him sometimes, His perfect love remains steadfast for us! As we realize how we fall short in this, let us be quick to repent of our sin, and seek to be satisfied in Him alone! He is so good to us! It's been a great few days but it's almost over and we'll be glad to go home and be reunited with all of the family and friends that we love SO much! We missed seeing our church family on Wednesday! Well, I'll go ahead and post some pictures from yesterday. We'll be at the park till about midnight tonight, so I'll blog and post pics about today sometime tomorrow morning. Thanks for caring enough to read our blogs. Hi Dad, Mom and Felicia! It's been fun keeping in contact with you guys! I wish you guys were here with me! God bless...