32 Things I Love About You

Happy Birthday to my wonderful husband, who gets to be a year older than me for nine whole days. To celebrate him turning 32, here are 32 things I love most about him.

1. He gives me a hug, a kiss, and tells me he loves me every single day.
2. He reads bedtime stories to Sydney every night.
3. His playfulness when he wrestles with the girls.
4. That he cuts his own hair
5. He always notices when I've cleaned the house.
6. Our mutual ability to recite Seinfeld lines to each other with perfect intonation: "The sea was angry that day, my friends." "I'm DRIVING the bus!" "We had a deal!"
7. The way he dances
8. He loves to exercise and is persistent about asking me to exercise too.
9. He always compliments me on dinner and says "thank you" even if all I did was put a pizza in the oven.
10. Cereal, also, is a perfectly good dinner to him.
11. He will watch "Grey's Anatomy" with me, even though I think he (not so) secretly hates it.
12. He has given up watching "CSI" just because I couldn't handle watching it anymore.
13. He doesn't complain that I refuse to get cable tv (even though we wouldn't have to pay for it).
14. He reads books.
15. I know he's a really great teacher.
16. He's way smart.
17. He is loyal to his friends.
18. Our secret code to tell each other "I love you"
19. That I can lean over to him in church and he instinctively knows to turn his watch towards me so I can see what time it is.
20. His freaky ability to sing cartoon/commercial/old tv show jingles, word for word. Seriously. It's some sort of gift.
21. He has limitless patience with me.
22. The amount of time and effort he is putting into our backyard
23. He's a great gift giver (diamond earrings one year for Christmas, trip to Maine this year).
24. We can play cribbage together, and even when I beat him, he will still play another round.
25. He will do laundry, vacuum, straighten-up, and cook without being asked.
26. His commitment to Tuesday nights: dinner, Dutch Brothers Coffee, story time at the library
27. We promised never to go to bed angry, and have stuck by that promise all our marriage except one night when we had a stupid argument over the dog.
28. The way he looks at me when we hear the theme song to "Antique Roadshow"
29. His passion to be a man dedicated to serving God.
30. His love of good smelling candles, and a willingness to spend a small sum of cash on peppermint candles because that's our favorite
31. When I told him I was afraid of having another baby for fear he'd be disappointed if we didn't have a boy, he said, "I'd never be disappointed. I love my girls."
32. He lets me put my freezing cold feet on the back of his legs when I crawl into bed at night.

Happy Birthday, Iokona.  {* * *}

Love, Me

Comments

[Katy Lewis]

What a wonderful gift this post was. Happy birthday Jason!
Weird, but Ben's b-d is today too....

[Goslyn]

What a perfect birthday post. Happy birthday, Jason. Sounds like Steph's got herself a fantastic man.

[Jeri]

Can you clone him?

[Stephanie G.]

Hi-
picked you up through Beck.
This is a lovely list. What a lucky guy!

[Megan]

I hope I marry someone as great as Jason one day! : )

PS. Today is my dad's birthday too!

[Karen]

Love the 32 things. And yes he is a great friend, I have seen that shown many times. :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

[Margaret]

Happy Birthday to your wonderful husband! I love his 32 things; he sounds like a great guy.

[amy wood]

Happy Birthday Jason! We've always enjoyed you too! Have a wonderful day!

[Inkling]

Happy birthday to him, and upcoming to you--and we would be happy to babysit for a birthday night out any time!

[Tyler Lewis]

Happy Birthday Jason! You are a wonderful person and a great friend. May God continue to bless you and your family!

[Beck]

Aw. He sounds like a sweet, wonderful man - happy birthday to him.

[Rachel]

Happy Birthday Jason.

[Danielle]

Happy Birthday Jason! Hope that you had an awesome day! Love the 32 Steph!
~Danielle :)

[Jess]

Happy belated birthday to Jason! This is such a sweet list! Sounds like you're a lucky woman and you're very aware of that. :) And I'm totally telling Steve that Jason gave up CSI for you. I looooathe that show.

[violetismycolor]

I hope you celebrated in style, despite the cold. Much love to you both.

[Carolyn]

"# He will do laundry, vacuum, straighten-up, and cook without being asked. "

It must be a Staley man thing, but mine won't cook. :(

I guess I should be happy with the fact that he cleans up after me and our dirty little dog.

See you guys soon!!

[ccap]

What a lovely list. Hppy belated birthday, Jason!