Happy Birthday Nathan THE BIG 2 9 !!!!

This is a special blog for my very Special Birthday Man! Nathan is very special in so many ways to so many people. He lights up my life with incredible happiness and laughter. Below are some of my favorite pictures of Nathan as well as some of my favorite things he says, calls me, does and has taught me. Nathan is such a character and one of the things I love most is how he fills my life with constant laughter. With Nathan I never know what he is going to do our say. I am always amazed how he comes up with what he does. My life in never boring with Nathan around because he is always doing something to make me laugh or to get a reaction out of me. I love this about him! For example he was being a rascal one day so I stuck my finger in his ear and twisted. Then he said "ouch, don't you know that a dry willy is way worse than a wet willy? Dry ones are too scratchy in your ear. Wet ones create a nice lubrication for a smooth clean twist in the ear". I laughed really hard. Or the Morning I woke up and my hair was kinda crazy. This shocked Nathan because I usually wake up with normal looking hair. So I sit down next to him and he says " Um I think I see a rat in your hair and some twigs too" I guess my hair was a rats nest.

This is one one my favorite faces of Nathan. He has many faces but this one has to be at the top of my list. So a few funny things he has said recently are "I love you like a fat kid loves cake". (he has a slight obsession with fat kids and chocolate cake, probably because he wishes he was a fat kid that ate chocolate cake all day). "Football is the only thing that isn't allowing our marriage to get to the next level because you won't embrace it". Funny, however I don't agree.

Nathan is a natural when it comes to taking funny pictures. Everything about this picture makes me laugh. So Nathan likes to call me all sorts of names. I never know what he is going to call me next. Here are a few of the things he calls me. And when I say a few it's because he has a never ending flow of names for me. Sometimes he comes up with nice names and sometimes they are gross. These are just a few, " Gus, rufus, cheezy, boomer, squeezy, desert flower, peach blossom, shnooks, babe, snugger, etc. etc.

Nathan playing softball. I love going to watch him play sports. So Nathan is very into his sports, and I barley come in first to his second love of sports. I am grateful I am still his #1. He likes to keep his footballs and basketball by the side of our bed, then he likes to throw them up and down before he goes to bed. On many occasions he brings the balls into our clean bed. Under our covers, snuggled in between Nathan and I in which he says that I need to love his football or basketball and I need to kiss them. I don't want to kiss his nasty, dirty basketball, football and baseballs and I don't want them in our clean bed. Then he says they are our babies and that I need to embrace them in our bed. OH man we really need some kids.

Nathan playing basketball and very sweaty. Nathan likes to teach me all sorts of things. He has taught me to throw a football and how to get a hand off and run the football. In our house he sets up a little course. He is very serious about this. He has me get behind him and gives me the directions. I must look at which heel he lifts and run that way to get the pass off of the football, then dodge the obstacles and run down the hall. If I do it bad and without total commitment and passion he has me do it again and again until I get it right. He has also taught me to fold our laundry to perfection and precision. My way was way to messy and he taught me how to evenly cut cheese for his sandwich so it covers every square inch of his bread. I am now a professional at that skill. But in all seriousness Nathan has taught me so many things that has made me become so much more of a Christlike person. I couldn't ask for a better husband, partner and best friend.

This is Nathan right before he was about to go to school. He got this new back pack that he was so excited about and proud of. So I decided to take a picture and this is the pose he gave me, it made me laugh.
Nathan was not liking that I was taking pictures of him so he made this face.


Nathan's smile is so cute and his bangs in this picture are awesome and funny.

I love this picture of Nathan as a baby. His face was so round and his lips are a perfect heart shape.