I Love This Guy...

Happy birthday to my Jeff!!! This photo is a smidge old, it was at the Astro's game on Labor Day 2009. The missionaries needed chaperones, so we volunteered. I don't remember much about the game, but I do know that according to every sports article, I have married a real man. He was able to snatch a foul ball out of mid-air while sipping a Coke. I don't even think he blinked.

Anyway, sometimes it surprises me how much I love Jeff. I know that sounds crazy, that's why I married him, right? But sometimes it really does catch me off guard and I realize that I really, really, truly love him with every fiber of my being, more than I've ever loved anything or anyone. Lately it's just little things that make me catch my breath and think, "I really am so lucky... I am SO lucky to be with someone like him..." but it's happened so often lately. How could you not love someone who:

• Carries you to your bed after you fall asleep on the couch, and even takes over your squirrel feeding duties...
• Cooks you dinner when you come home...
• Makes you laugh all the time..
• Makes you think of them every time any song about loving someone comes on the radio....
• Has so many inside jokes with you...
• Gives you the bottom of their ice cream cone because they know it's your favorite...
• Cleans the house up for you if they know you had a long day...
• Holds your hand and always gives you hugs...
• Tells you they love you constantly....
• Says the most sincere, sweet things...
• Makes sure you are taken care of...

And on... and on. He really is one of the kindest, sweetest people I have ever met. And today he is turning twenty nine! Can you believe he is getting that old? I can't-just look at that baby face. How is he really so close to thirty??