5 year anniversary!

This past Friday, April 2nd, Valeria and I celebrated our 5th year of marriage.

We were married in 2005, and It is hard to believe that it has already been that long.  While we were out that evening celebrating, we came up with our Top 10 moments since we have been married.

Here they are (in no particular order):
Top 10 Moments in our First 5 Years:

1)     the birth of our first son Joshua Carl Greene Jr.  (we were in the hospital from Dec. 31, 2007 until Jan. 3, 2008. He was born Jan. 2 It was awesome!)

2)     the birth of our second son Eli Lucio Greene (he was born April 30, 2009)

3)     Jeremiah came to live with us  (the last 2 years of his high school career Jeremiah lived with us. he is still like our son and so much a part of our family)

4)     we went horse back riding together in the mountains on our honeymoon

5)     we went on our first mission trip together (st. thomas, we both had been on trips before, just never together)

6)     we had the amazing opportunity and experience to introduce our sons to the ocean. (one of the greatest moments of my entire life)

7)     we saw God really move in our church youth group (in 2006, we took 22 people to Myrtle Beach, SC for a week. 7 people on the trip saw the ocean for the very first time. several others got saved. it was such an awesome memorable week)

8)      we spent our first anniversary out at the farm owned by Russel & Linda McDaniel (it has no running water. I got terribly sick. We took a nap in the pasture and woke up surrounded by cows…scared.)

9)     JJ taking his first steps (he was 1 year and 4 days old when he walked for the first time. With all honesty, his first time walking was with basketball in hand, all the way across the room, to the fisher price goal to dunk it…i was thrilled)

10)     the both of us graduated from Southern Seminary with our Masters degrees (if this had not happened, we would not be in the great position we are now of pastoring our wonderful church, FBC Fairdale)

We know there are many other great moments, but these 10 really stand out to us.  With all this said, we echo Paul’s words that “we are what we are by the grace of God.” We do not deserve any of this goodness. We are humbled to be so blessed.