1. He is honest.
2. He teaches our children to be honest.
3. He is a really hard worker.
4. He never complains.
5. He looks for ways to see the best in people.
6. He is always willing to help others.
7. He doesn't take himself too seriously.
8. He reminds me to laugh at myself.
9. He never gets mad when I make a mistake.
10. He likes to give gifts.
11. He loves surprises.
12. He can't ever wait until the right day to give me something that he's bought for me.
13. His gifts to me are always better than my gifts to him and he likes it that way.
14. He is glad that we homeschool our kids.
15. He actually enjoys talking about curriculum and school plans with me.
16. He spends more money at used book sales than I do.
17. He is wise.
18. He thinks critically and has taught me to do the same.
19. He loves his family.
20. He loves my family.
21. He really enjoys having friends and family stay with us.
22. He likes to roll out the red carpet and make special things for guests.
23. He makes fancy coffee for me every night.
24. He likes to cook and the stuff he makes is always good.
25. He makes a huge mess when he cooks and is always willing to clean it up.
26. I have never once heard him complain about getting up and going to work every single day. Even when his job wasn't very fun at the time.
27. His truck was (very) used when he bought it almost six years ago.
28. It's even more used (loved) now.
29. The kids affectionately named her Ole Squeaky because we hear him coming before we see him.
30. He would love a fancy truck. Or even just a truck with A/C. That didn't squeak.
31. He never spends money we don't have.
32. He often spends money that we do have on people besides himself.
33. He is reliable.
34. Except when he's forgetful. ; )
35. He greatly enjoys the little things in life.
36. He is a visionary.
37. He dreams big. Really big.
38. He's never afraid to pursue big dreams.
39. He thinks I'm smart.
40. He plays sports with the kids and teaches them how to play well.
41. He's affectionate with Caroline.
42. He's affectionate with his boys, too.
43. He's always more than happy to do or go wherever I want on Saturdays, even though he's been out all week and I'm sure it would feel nice to stay home.
44. He thinks outside of the box.
45. He helps me fold laundry.
46. He doesn't get irritated when it takes me forever to get to his shirts that need to be ironed.
47. He doesn't get irritated when it takes me a year to sew a button on his favorite shorts.
48. He's always coming up with awesome ideas for the house that we'll build one day.
49. He never complains about getting up with little people in the night (when I can get him to actually wake up, that is).
50. He could sleep through a freight train running through our bedroom.
51. He willingly does a whole-house search when I hear a strange noise in the night and doesn't make me feel dumb for asking him to.
52. He genuinely likes to take me shopping for clothes.
53. He has really good taste and I pretty much always like what he picks out for me.
54. He's good at getting babies to sleep.
55. He loves two year olds.
56. He likes to get Thai take-out for us after the kids are in bed.
57. He loves letting the big kids stay up late to play games at night.
58. He enjoys reading.
59. He reads books with me and likes talking about them.
60. It takes him forever to read a book because he usually falls asleep after about two pages.
61. He has Men's Bible Study with the boys once a week in the evening.
62. There has to be a hot drink of some sort involved in Men's Bible Study.
63. He loves winter time and being cozy.
64. He can't quite give up his sweat pants with the elastic band at the bottom.
65. He likes to have Sabbath Sundaes with the kids in the summer time.
66. During winter it's Sabbath Cider.
67. He teaches the kids to work hard.
68. He lets them help him with jobs.
69. He teaches them to play hard.
70. He makes work fun.
71. He likes doing "big boy" stuff with his guy friends.
72. He's fully able to accept and admit when he's not as good at something as someone else.
73. He's good at most everything he does.
74. He loves milkshakes.
75. Vanilla ice cream, orange juice and a banana is one of his favorites.
76. He adores chocolate milk in a frozen glass.
77. He prefers single-flavor ice creams and reminds me that vanilla is an actual flavor and it's not just "plain".
78. He left the Marine Corps for "roots" for our family.
79. He still misses it.
80. He often makes choices for the good of others.
81. He wrestles with the kids.
82. He dances with Caroline.
83. He dances with me.
84. He doesn't really like dancing.
85. He loves music.
86. He teaches our kids all sorts of songs and hymns.
87. He does calisthenics and cadence calls with them.
88. He loves good coffee.
89. He does his research before he buys something.
90. He has beautiful eyes with long, dark eyelashes.
91. He has a mischievous smile.
92. He enjoys good-natured teasing.
93. He only teases those that he loves.
94. He teases me a lot.
95. I knew that I wanted to marry him shortly after I met him.
96. Our first date was to a Sadie Hawkins dance at Belhaven.
97. Girls ask boys to Sadie Hawkins dances.
98. Rumor had it that he was expecting me to ask.
99. I'm really glad he said yes.
100. 13 years seems like a long time, but it's really nothing compared to the 70 that I hope we have left together.
101. There is no one else that I'd rather be doing life with in the whole, wide world, and I'm so very thankful that God picked him for me.

Happy thirteenth anniversary to my very Favorite.