Happy 35th Birthday, Dave

35 Things I love about you:

1. The dimple in your chin
2. Your blue, blue eyes
3. Your boyish smile
4. The way you make me laugh
5. Your mad "key-tar" skills
6. Your loyalty
7. Your drive (not talking about your car here)
8. Your eyelashes (thanks for giving them to the kids)
9. Your work ethic
10. Your pancakes every Saturday morning
11. Your love of movie-going (don't forget the popcorn)
12. Your kindness and service - always willing to lend a hand to others
13. You took me to Hawaii
14. Your easy-going nature (keep trying to rub off on me)
15. Your dedication to family
16. Your endless nicknames for the kids and me (Feline, Munch, Rionicle, Nuchacho, Buchen, to name a few)
17. Your long legs (may our children get them, please)
18. The way you communicate in movie lines ("But what will I wear?")
19. The invention of tweezers and how well you use them
20. Your patience with me and the kids
21. Your smoothies
22. The way you diffuse a tense situation with your quick-witted-ness
23. Playing Mario-Kart with me
24. The way you make me feel beautiful no matter how I might actually look
25. Your love of the Lord and church service
26. The way you father our 4 beautiful children
27. Your love of getting the mail in anticipation of something "good"
28. The way you kiss me in front of the kids, thereby grossing them out completely - one day they'll appreciate it....
29. You take over with the kids after a long day
30. That you do all the driving on road-trips
31. Your amazing back rubs
32. You don't care what others think
33. Your land-surfing skills
34. You don't sweat the small stuff
35. You picked me to take along on this amazing journey through life and the eternities.

Happy Birthday, babe!

My Hero