always and forever!

as we finish up our week of celebrating daddyc's birthday, we are all exhausted and have attended some really fun parties be it adult OR handy manny parties with tools (so cute!) and i have hung the camera up for just a minute.  Last night we had a table for TWO, Martinis for ONE, bourbon for one, FOOD for twelve, and a year of good times reflected together!  Good stuff.


HAPPY BiRthDAY!!!
i love you to pieces daddyc and YOU ARE OLD as dirt...
grow old along with me the best is YET to be! (i can't remember who quoted that, sorry!)




some reasons why:
i love my coffee EVERY morning that you never fail to deliver
i love that you love playing with our boys,really really love playing with them
i love your zest of life even as we get older
i love that we can act our AGE or NOT 
i love how you help me out when i am on the brink of breakdown whether it be taking the nightly book reading over, doing the dishes, etc. so that i can engulf myself in sex in the city RE-RUNS intently
i love that you want to take me to italy SO BAD but i just really want to go to the beach instead (i will work on that!)
i love that you don't judge ANYONE and that we can befriend any living thing and just enjoy the company and the funny thing is we do just that....really enjoy them!
i love you for seeing the looks on the boys faces when you pull down the street, bikes and chubby cherub legs go as fast as they can to get to you....is it YOU? or the chance to drive the car down the street? you decide. i think its YOU
i love that you LOVE to take CARE of us and provide....i hate that sometimes it stresses you but your comfort, strength, and love are endlessly over pouring and we, all 4 of us, feel so safe and taken care of. thanks for that x 4.

i love that you always open my door, pull out my chair (be it on the patio, front porch, fancy dining, office meeting), offer my drinks or re-caps AND all the lucky girl/girls i am chatting with too, always pick up the check with no mention of the cost of our enjoyment (as if we are on our first date), hold my hand going down stairs as if i am 82 (no offense you 82 year olds), and how you truly TRULY believe i deserve the moon and back (when secretly i probably don't....although you'd have to give up a good fight against my mom&dad on that one) and mostly how i always feel like the most important thing in the world....be it running clothes with NO shower, or dressed to the nines for a black tie event.....

most of all i love YOu for LOVING me so openly, honestly, whole hearted-ly, with all of your being.
OH by the way. You have a birthday TOdAY.... so fun.
Happy birthday lovey dove and i can't wait for our honeymoon-ish vacate later this month (meaning no kids)!