Yesterday Ali and I celebrated our 5th Anniversary as husband and wife. We were married on a beautiful December day in Guthrie, OK in 2006. The past five years have been simply amazing through the fun times and the hard times. We have grown closer every single year and this past year was no exception. We faced several challenges with so many transitions in our lives but the Lord was faithful and brought us through them all. Yesterday we started out the day watching this year’s anniversary video I made. I’ve made one every year since we’ve been married and it’s one of my most favorite things to do every year. This year we broke out all of the stops and spoofed a scene from “LOST” for our opening. We watched all 120 episodes of LOST this summer thanks to Netflix and we loved it so much we wanted to include it in the video. For dinner, Ali and I stopped by the all new Oklahoma Joe’s in Broken Arrow, OK for their grand opening. I will blog about that later this weekend. We split a Jumbo Chicken Z-Man with fries which was just enough to tie us over for our second dinner at Mahogany Prime Steakhouse. I’m convinced they have the best Filet Mignon in Oklahoma. I have yet to find a better filet in my travels. I gave Ali a diamond tennis bracelet this year since I haven’t bought her anything jewelry-wise since we got married. With this being our fifth anniversary she definitely deceived something sparkly for putting up with me for this many years! Overall, we had a fantastic anniversary and I can’t wait for the next one with all the challenges we will meet before then. People ask us how we’re so happy with one another and how we seem to fall more and more in love each year instead of drifting away like most couples. The answer is always simple. I married the one God made for me. The reason we know this is that when we met we were both seeking to know God more and when we met, it was never so clear that we were the ones for each other. I fell in love with Ali the first time we sat down and had a conversation. A few years earlier I may not have given Ali a second look as I was looking for a “different” kind of woman. When I started seeking after a godly woman instead of a worldly one, I was given the gift of Ali and I knew in my heart very early on that I was going to marry her. So when you marry the right person, it’s pretty easy to grown more and more in love with them every day! Thanks again for all of the congratulations you have sent our way, we are truly blessed to have such good friends! Now sit back and enjoy the four months of hard work I put into our 5th Anniversary video! -Barnezy-
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