Man Post

You all may think you have the best husband in the world, but you're wrong. Because I do. Looking through my past posts, I realize how much play the kids get and how little my hubby gets. Well, here's a post to help equalize the situation.

REASONS I LOVE AARON:

The other day I went grocery shopping in single digit weather (it's the only thing grocery shopping in nice weather). I drove up to find him outside with the kids building them "polar bear caves". Not one but two caves, and for not one, but two hours he was outside with them. In the freezing cold. HE LOVES HIS BOYS and will do anything for them.

HE IS ALWAYS WILLING TO HELP OUT. In November our furnace broke. Luckily I was out of town for Thanksgiving, and Aaron was gone working a lot so he didn't have to be in the freezing house too much. But instead of hiring someone to fix it, he fixed it himself. And he doesn't know anything about fixing heaters. It saved about $300.

A couple of weeks ago I bought paint for three rooms in our house and I was all ready to do it myself. He immediately intervened telling me that the paint wasn't good for me or the baby and did all three rooms by himself. Primer and paint, no small feat!

Last week one of the belts in his car broke. Once again, instead of taking it in, he thought he'd give it a whirl and try to fix it himself. Here's me thinking, "you and your soft doctor hands are going to fix your car?" So he bought a new belt for $12 and a one day on-line subscription to Mazda's car manual... and he fixed it himself. You know, it's just like cooking, just follow that recipe, right? Ha! He doesn't know much about cars, but my grease monkey is slowly becoming the resident handy man. Him and his soft doctor hands.

HE'S SO CUTE. Even his kids want to look just like him. (Destroy is his clone).

HE'S A KID AT HEART! I think the thing he misses most about So Cal is Disneyland.

See? The only different is the gun (now he has REAL guns).

HE'S AMBITIOUS AND DEDICATED. It's one of the things that attracted me to him so much when we first met. I didn't really care what he wanted to be, I was just really impressed that he was so driven in his goals. Not only is he like this with work/school/training, but in other aspects of his life also. You know, like mastering Guitar Hero and Mario Kart. Those important things in life.

He MISSES SLEEP for hours on end just so that he doesn't miss anything fun that the boys and I are doing. Like going trunk-or-treating after you've been awake for 36 hours.

HE LIKES TO COOK. Especially breakfast and anything on the grill. And not only does he like it, he's dang good at it! Aaron can make some mean scrambled eggs and he's got some scrumptious grilled dishes under his sleeve. Come visit us in the great state of Indiana and he'll whip something up for ya!

HE'S AN EXCELLENT TEACHER and he finds lots of moments to take the opportunity. Not only does he teach the kids, but me as well. I'm sure I've said it before, but he has a large reservoir of strange facts in his head. It never ceases to surprise me. The primary kids love it when he subs for their classes.

HE LOVES HIS FAMILY (meaning us). He always puts us first. He rarely goes to anything social unless we can come too. He's very considerate and caring of us and our needs.

HE LOVES TO PLAY WITH HIS BOYS. From building train tracks, to legos, to reading, to playing board games, to sledding and swimming, there's nothing that he won't do with them. And they love it!

HE TELLS ME I'M BEAUTIFUL. Even when I know I'm not, or when I look like a cow. Like here with Destroy,Here with Search,
Or here with Dodge.

He even tells me I'm beautiful after I've birthed a child and am anything but.HE LOVES BABIES. I think he's more excited that I am for baby Dodge to make his appearance. He's always enjoyed holding babies and isn't ashamed to be animated and goofy to make them smile. He was always better at soothing the boys when they were tiny than I was.

HE LOVES ME.

AND I LOVE HIM! I'm so grateful to have him in my life.