2) I love that you can bench press me, even if you do workouts named after other women.
3) I love your crooked smile that you give about freely and the twinkle in your eye when you're trying to get something you know you shouldn't have.
4) I love how you can stand up and give a fire-cracker speech about absolutely anything off the cuff.
5) I love your ingenuity and watching you fix just about anything, except maybe the toilet.
6) I love how well you can pack 1000 square feet of my luggage into our car.
7) I love that you don't (usually) complain about my excessive luggage.
8) I love you for that first picnic and that first run in the rain.
9) I love your hair and all the different directions it points at various times of the day.
10) I love the conversations we have in the middle of the night when you are sleepwalking, even when you tell me to go get into the dishwasher.
11) I love you for that time at your apartment right after graduation when you made everything perfect.
12) I love you because you've loved me since before I knew it and still now when sometimes I don't deserve it.
13) I love you because you're so funny, even when you don't mean to be.
14) I love you because you're _always_ happy and that makes me happy.
15) I love how tenderhearted you are and that you've given that trait to our son.
16) I love your height and that somehow you make my giant frame feel dainty.
17) I love your laugh, especially when it's so hard you can't breathe.
18) I love how you chase our son with as much joy as he gets from crawling away from you.
19) I love your sense of direction and your ability to tell which way is North just by looking out the window.
20) I love that you've fought overseas for our country just because you thought it was the right thing to do but gave it up when I asked you to.
21) I love that you know how to kill a man with your hands but that you have the most gentle soul of anyone I've ever known.
22) I love your unparalleled integrity.
23) I love that we have the same music tastes and I adore that I can predict when you're going to belt out to Willy Nelson or Johnny Cash when you start banging on the steering wheel.
24) I love how open you are to trying new things, even if they are green and leafy.
25) I love that you hate to argue and love to make up.
26) I love that our son has you as the example for all that a man is supposed to be.
27) I love how selfless you are no matter how tired or hungry or pained you are.
28) I love your cooking.
29) I love that you are my partner in absolutely everything and that being with you is the only place I really ever want to be.
30) I love how endless your memory is and how much of an asset you are when I need to impress someone.
31) I love you because I always have, beyond my understanding, and always will, beyond this life and the next.
Happy Birthday, dearest.
I love you.
1 comment:
Happiest birthday, Stephen! I feel so fortunate to have you in my life and that you make on of my bestest friends the happiest girl in the world.
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