Our 5th anniversary

This is my anniversary post. We had ours last week, but were in the middle of sick kids and other trials. One night, after the kids were down, I made some insanely good chocolate mousse for Shaun and I to enjoy for our anniversary celebration. (I’ll share the recipe soon, gotta type it out:) Here’s what I love about my darling friend:

• He gets all excited when there’s a fix it task around the house. Gets his tools out, takes Ethan to Home Depot, comes back and enjoys taking care of the home.
• Is an awesome worker, does the laundry for me on his days off, cleans the kitchen every night with me before we crash.
• Is incredibly better at loading the dishwasher than I am, and laughs kindly at my crazy assortment of dishes everywhere when I load it.
• Makes hilarious ‘Bruce Lee’ karate sounds when making the first cut on a vegetable, fruit, etc.
• Makes me feel good about my photography when he looks at the finished product, and says “Man, they’re going to love that!”
• Hasn’t lost his ability from our single days to plan the most awesome dates ever!
• Shares my love of action movies, and laughs when I find “Terminator 2” on cable, right at my most favorite part of the mall fight/T-1000 chasing John Connor on bike scene. (Yes, those are the exact names and yes, I’m still a huge tomboy dork:)
• Makes me laugh so hard with stupid, funny one liners. Days later, I’ll remember them out of nowhere and start laughing uncontrollably. Boys wonder why Mom is so weird.
• Puts up with my quest of trying new, heavenly pasta recipes.
• Gets way excited for a chance to grill some good meat outside.
• Super father to our boys, and they love their da-da so much.
• Is a supreme grizzly bear when it comes to protecting his family, but melts like butter for his eternal sweetie:)
• Is the best Paramedic on the planet. So educated on anything health, anatomy, sickness. Really knows well how to deal with drunks and legals, thanks to nine years of his job. Just laughs at them, while doing his job, ha ha!
• Is very attractive to me, of course, but when he’s in the ‘line of duty’ so to speak, doing his job, I find him stinking hot. One time at church, an older woman passed out and was having a hard time. Shaun came and knelt down by her, checked vitals, did assessment and his usual work. Lots of people were trying to peek in to see if she was ok. I just wanted to see him do his thing, and tried very hard to not faint in the hallway from swooning.
• Always makes me feel safe.
• Loves his family with all his heart, and just wants to give us the world.
• He’s Captain Redbox, bringing me home the latest new movies out that look decent.

Oh, there’s so much more, but I love him dearly. It took me a long time to find him, but it was so worth the wait. We both wonder ‘when did these kids get here' and where did the time go, but love our new chapter in our lives. Happy 5th to us:)