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Today is my favorite guy's twenty fifth birthday. He's halfway to 50, has been on earth two and a half decades, has been in my life for almost four years, has been the best daddy to Emma Claire for the past ten months, and we don't know what we would do without him in our lives. In order to celebrate his birthday I thought I would do a list post all about him

1. He was the CUTEST baby. {Other than Emma Claire of course}

2. EC looks a LOT like him. People don't believe me when I tell them so here is some proof...

 3. He and I are the same age for seven days each year. 

4. On our first date he choked on an ice cube.

5. He is going to hate me for sharing #4 with you. 

6. He is the one who went out and bought my pregnancy test to find out I was pregnant with Emma Claire. He also knew that we would have a girl right after the test turned positive. 

7. He picked out Gracie from the shelter when she was a puppy.

8. He has a rainbow assortment of polos. {read: several hues of each color}

9. He waited until I was "officially" his girlfriend to kiss me. Which didn't take long. We were official after knowing each other for a week. What can I say, when you know...you know!

10. He taught me all of the back roads of Waco when we started dating. 

11.  He has twin brothers.

12. He is an excellent cook. 

13. He has the ability to take a simple desert and turn it into a masterpiece.  The picture below was a skinny cow ice cream sandwich. He brought this to me and I was shocked what he had turned it into!

14. I wrote him a note each day during training last fall. He kept all of them. 

15. He secretly likes when EC gets up in the middle of the night if he has been on a trip and has just returned home. He will go get her and bring her to me. 

16. I love that he appreciates a clean/organized house and notices when I make small changes. 

17. He loves my cooking even when I don't.

18. He said the L word first and when he first said, "I love you" I said, "Thank you" ha!

19. He brought me home to meet his family when we had been dating for four weeks.

20. One of the silly things I love about him is that we hardly ever argue about what to watch on TV. We love the same shows and can almost always agree on what to watch.

21. He graduated from Baylor with a degree in Religion and is an ordained minister.

22.  He was the one who got Emma Claire to laugh for the first time. And can almost always get her to smile quicker than me.

23. He finished up his masters when EC was younger. He did a lot of his course work with her in his lap. 

 

24. The first time I made him taco soup he talked about it almost every day for a week. You would've thought I made him a five course meal!

25.  One of the things I love most about him is that he is such a hard worker and is so dedicated to provide for our family. But since you already knew that I also love that he is my #1 blog fan/cheerleader/supporter/editor. It's true. He always reads my blog posts and talks to me about them. I love that.

Happy birthday honey! I hope that your 25th year is a great one and that we make many more happy memories together. I love you!