tribute to the LOVE OF OUR LIFE

Today our Man of the house, and will always be the only man of the house (besides our dog Oskar) turned 25.  We are so blessed to have him in our lives.  I wanted to list 25 things we love about him:

1. good looking

2. great daddy and best friend (couldn't have asked for anyone better to spend the rest of my life with and be the father of my children...he is WONDERFUL)
3. fantastic cook (check out his food blog http://themanfullmer.blogspot.com/ and become a follower)

4. knowledgeable

5. hard worker

6. entertaining

7. adventurous

8. love to cuddle with

9. can always make his daughter laugh

10. dedicated

11. willing to try new things

12. good listener

13. likes to garden (we both are perfecting this together)

14. full of surprises

15. clean person (not a slob)

16. appreciates everything we do for him

17. has a passion for educating others (esp. with archaeology or rocks or useless knowledge)

18. gift of learning the Navajo language

19. respect for other cultures/people different from him

20. motivator to read (i hate reading but love laying in bed next to him and reading separate books but at the same time)

21. entertaining

22. good taste in fashion (better then what he wore when we first met...tight brown pin striped pants with a blue dynamite shirt...gotta love your first days when you meet the love of your life)

23. caring

24. considerate of his families needs

25. loves to be with his family when he can with his crazy schedule (keeping fingers crossed that December is our month of luck)

for dinner I made hussle back potatoes, fresh corn on the cob with a garlic butter sauce and a salad and coke from our soda stream...Josh made steak and lobster to go with....it was yummy!

Josh doesn't like birthday cake so I made a double chocolate bread (turned out yummy) with a peanut butter frosting but next time I may leave that off and Adey wanted to put 12 candles in the cake: blue and yellow

(sorry it is side ways...gotta love blogger)

Here we are singing to Josh...Adey was kind of quiet but she really wanted to sing and wanted to help Daddy blow out the candles...she loves her daddy!

she loved the "cake" and I am so glad she is finally learning to smile for the camera