Friday, August 28, 2009

Happy Birthday D!

D was so nice to post a list of things about me on my birthday that I thought I'd do the same for him. Or in other words, it's payback time, Baby.

D turns 31 today, so here goes:

1. His favorite movie is Misery. Others include The Mission and Drop Dead Gorgeous.

2. He makes me laugh every single day. Like last Saturday when I was in a moody all day and couldn't get the tv to work and he kept telling the kids, "Mommy needs her programs." I tried so hard not to laugh, but I did.

3. He has run two marathons.

4. He worked as a cashier in high school.

5. He loves trying new foods and never wants to go to chain restaurants.

6. He's sweet. One time on Valentine's day, he cued the cd player in my car to our song so it was the first thing playing when I turned on the car. Awww.

7. Yesterday he brought home a dozen roses (yellow like my wedding bouquet) and my favorite candy bars for our anniversary even though we decided we wouldn't get each other anything.

8. He's very neat and organized. My friend Julie got in his car a couple weeks ago and said, "This is the cleanest car I have ever seen!" And it is.

9. He likes a good fight and he takes care of all our dirty business. We're getting our Direct TV upgraded to HD for free on Monday thanks to him!

10. He mows, edges, and weed whacks all .17 acres of our lawn every week.

11. He's a very fun dad. C and O want nothing to do with me by the time D gets home.

12. He LOVES to travel. I won't even attempt to list all the countries he's been to.

13. He was obsessed with Snoopy as a child.

14. He also wanted to be a pumpkin farmer when he grew up. I'm personally glad he chose the lawyer route :)

15. He's a very good piano player and makes his debut as ward organist on Sunday. Coppell 1st Ward, 11 am. Be there.

16. He is an Eagle Scout.

17. He has seriously asked me if I would consider "Cosmo" as a middle name for one of our children. He has all sorts of good ideas. Max Cosmo. Ty Cosmo. John Beck Cosmo. Um, no.

18. He is SO EXCITED for football season to start. Heaven help me.

19. He served a mission in Honduras and Belize.

20. Whenever he takes C to the store with him he buys her some sort of toy, candy, etc. She loves going to the store with him.

21. One time he surprised me on my birthday with a trip to New York. I thought we were dropping his cousin off at the airport on the way to my parents house, but it was the other way around. We were getting dropped off for a weekend in NYC!

22. He loves holidays and goes crazy decorating our house for Christmas.

23. He likes scary movies, but I refuse to go with him. He always makes his younger siblings go with him when they come to visit.

24. He likes when people use correct grammar and he likes correcting grammar. I quickly learned the difference between further and farther and lay and lie, and that it's "another whole" not "whole 'nother."

25. He used to take me to fifty cent wing night at Buffalo Wild Wings every Tuesday while we were dating in Ann Arbor.

26. C calls him Dawan and he likes it.

27. He once cut O's eyelashes because he thought they were too long. He only got one eye because I caught him after the first.

28. He hates when others brush their teeth in front of him.

29. He has an uncanny ability to look at anyone and tell you what animal they look like. Our brother-in-law Tyler really does look like a large mouth bass, a nice looking one of course.

30. He's a LOST fanatic and often sends me articles with LOST theories. It's adorable.

31. He's the perfect match for me. My family is always saying they can't believe I found someone so perfect for me. I agree.

Happy Birthday D!

4 comments:

  1. Wow, what a really nice tribute to Dallan. Seriously, you have me convinced he's the best man on earth. Happy birthday, Dally!! Sending lots of beavers and chitters your way!

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  2. I laughed out loud when you said the teeth brushing thing. He was fanatical about that on the mission. Hated when anyone would brush outside of the bathroom. Forget the lizards on the walls and rats in the drains, just don't get your Crest suds near me.

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  3. This is priceless. I have personally experienced numbers 8, 9, 15, 24, and 28. Number 18 would seem to explain that long, leisurely "walk" we took together near the MTC on a P-day that coincided with a BYU football game being played so achingly close - and yet so far away - at Cougar Stadium.

    Happy Birthday, Big D

    -Marc

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  4. Happy Birthday Buddy! The toothbrushing cracks me up, he didn't bother telling me it bugged him until we'd lived together for quite a while and I had been walking around the apartment brushing my teeth every day.

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