My Favorite Guy

Today is Joseph's 24th birthday! We have already had a fun day of celebrating with our parent's and look forward to celebrating more next weekend with our whole families. If you know Joe you know he is incredibly lovable. He is one of the sweetest, most considerate people you will ever meet. He is loyal and loves with his whole heart. Of course some of the things that I love about him change and some stay the same. I love his heart for the Lord, his quiet, steadfast faith. I love, LOVE his heart for his family. Lastly, I love his ability to always make me laugh. We have fun all the time. While these 'loves' will never change, the little things about him that I love shift and change with time. Instead of 24, I will share 12 things that I'm loving right now:

12. His Fashion Sense: Lately Joe has been very interested in creating a personal style. He does research and I love this! I find it quite entertaining.

11. His Peace: The past week or so have been a roller coaster of emotions with his job situation; but, the whole time Joe never lost faith that it wouldn't work out. He was so comforting to me even when it should have been the other way around.

10: The way he looks when he wakes up: Joe is sooooo cute when he is asleep. He looks like he did as a little boy, and when I go in there to get him up he is always so sweet-this has not always been the case ;). His hair stands straight up in the back and it's ADORABLE!

9. His wake-up song: Nearly every morning when I wake him up he sings a song. I keep saying I'm going to start writing down the songs he sings because they are very varied!

8. Our Routine: I guess this doesn't have to do with just Joe, but I have really been loving our routine lately. We eat at the kitchen table and talk about our days, look at a magazine/website together, watch our favorite TV show on the given evening, pray together et cetera.

7. His Love of Kids: Ok, don't get any ideas-really, but it is the cutest thing, every time there is a baby/toddler on TV or whatever he goes "aww, so cute" or something to that effect. If it is what God has for us I know he is going to be such a loving dad!

6. His Detail: Every time Joe tells a story he gives you every detail. It cracks me up!

5. His Sentimental-ness: Joe is still carrying the room key to our cottage on our honeymoon. He has trouble throwing anything away and whether or not he will admit gets choked up at the sweetest things.

4. His Dreams: Not any in particular. We love to talk about our future. Whether that's where will be living in December, or what tub we are going to be in our master bathroom in our dream home.

3. His Light-Heartedness: Of course Joe can be serious, but he has an infectious spirit about him. I'm not sure how to put it into words, but he makes me happier than anyone in the whole world.

2. His eyes: I have been trying to get all of the wedding pics (900+) printed slowly over time, and I have just noticed what sweet eyes he has. There is this one picture of the "mother-son dance" and he is looking at his momma so sweetly. Just melts my heart.

1. My Feelings: The other day my voice teacher asked me "how is married life, I know the first year is hard.." and I can honestly say it is wonderful! We have tiffs obviously, but our relationship has never been better. We grow closer each and every day. The other day I was driving home and I looked in front of me and there was Joe, and I guess because it was unexpected my stomach got butterflies. I was so excited!

Happy Birthday, to my favorite guy! I love you more than I can express.

This is a song I would sing to Joe a lot when we were in high school. The first time he cried :)