I'll love you 33 ways to anywhere

Happy Birthday Andy!  You are 33 today.  I told you that you were a third of a century today and you corrected me by saying you wouldn't really be a third of a century until January 30th at 8 AM - because then you would be 33 and 3 months and 1/3 of a day.   Always the over analytical engineer huh?  :) That's OK that is one of the reasons I love you.  Here are 33 ways I love you darling!

1. Just what I said above - you are so funny how proudly nerdy you are.  I love laughing with you about your little nerd ticks and qualities. 
2. Last night you watched all of the kids and kept them out of my hair for several hours while I worked on the service project at church.  You even kept them alive!  I love you
3. I love the mouse squeak you make when you are laughing too hard.
4. I love how you simply adore your little girls.
5. I love that you work so hard at work and that everyone respects you.
6. I love that you are the type of dad that makes it a matter of course that your son wants to be just like you.
7. I love how even very late at night when we both want to sleep - if you know I am stressed about anything you ask if I want to talk about it.
8. I love that you really love what you do.  That you enjoy it is one of the best blessings in my life.
9. I love that when you talk to the kids about me you call me "Mommy" to them and not Mom.  It shows the tenderness you see in my role.
10. I love that we have very similar senses of humor. 
11. When you do something you do it thoroughly every time.  I love that I can depend on that.
12. I love how you look so young to everyone but that you are getting a distinguishing amount of salt and pepper throughout the sides of your hair.
13. I love that are easily amazed by me.  This makes me feel good even when I think I haven't really done much.
14. I love how you have such a way with people that they always feel that you really do care about them and they like you instantly.  They feel this way because you really do care about them.
15. You have a real talent with words.  I can write down my feelings and express them in a way that satisfies me but you can speak difficult words to people in gentle ways - making hard situations go smoothly.  It is simply amazing.
16. You are very strong.  I don't know where you hide all those muscles but I like it anyhow. 
17. I love how utterly amazed and surprised you are when someone complements you - it never takes me by surprise.
18. I love the little crinkly smile lines by your blue eyes that almost always are on your face.
19. I love how completely unobservant you are when you come home from work and I am in my PJs, hair a mess and the kids look like orphans and you casually say "did you go anywhere today?"
20. I love how you immediately revert to a 6 yr old whenever you are around something sweet.
21. I love how completely and honestly you dove right into the madness that is my family.
22. I love how no matter how long I have been married to you I am often caught by the thought of how much fun it has been.
23. I love how you make an effort to get to know my girlfriends well enough that you give really good suggestions when it comes to gifts or advice concerning them.
24. I love it how your voice gets really high and you show such huge excitement - declaring praises whenever Ruby does something new developmentally.  You are such a huge ego booster for the kids.
25. I love how you pretend your little no-frills 2004 plain grey Toyota Corolla is a rally car as soon as snowy weather hits in.
26. I'm pretty sure you are the coolest person ever - well in the nerd category that is. :)
27. I love that you are from another country - it makes this boring went K-12 grade with the same people and lived in CO my whole life girl feel a bit more exotic.  I love that you consider yourself an American now though.
28. Embarrassing Secret Alert: I love that you secretly love Pride and Prejudice and that you enjoyed the Twilight books.
29. I love that you will mow the lawn in stripes even though it takes longer just because you know I think it looks so nice.
30. I love the way you explain difficult concepts to the kids and even I understand them better.
31. I love the way you look in those jeans.  You know the ones.
32. I love that sometimes when we go out to eat and you order something that I sometimes make at home - you always say how mine tastes better.  And I think you mean it.
33. Lastly, I love that I've loved you for 28% of your life and that that percentage is only going to grow larger.

There you have it - here is to another year older and better still!  Muah!