in honor of spending nine years together with my lover and bestest friend
i thought i would share a little bit about us.
1. we drink too much diet coke.
2. we enjoy watching tinkerbell movies with the littles
3. our favorite place to vacation is lincoln city, oregon or moab, utah.
4. our favorite place to eat in lincoln city is moe's.
5. our favorite winter treat is my grandma s's coffee cake and my grandma h's clam chowder.
6. we like rainy days.
7. we both love the movie
when harry met sally. and quote it often.
8. harry was one of the names i liked for our son until mr.p made many inappropriate jokes about the name and it ended there.
9. we lived four blocks away from each other as kids and our dads worked together. they even came over to our house for dinner and games. and neither of us can recall this although our parents tell us it's true.
10. we were very convinced that our first child was going to be a baby boy and were beyond shocked to find out it was a girl.
11. we loved living in bend, oregon and miss it often.
12. we had "our place" in bend called the breakfast club. it is a tiny little diner on greenwood that is open from 6 am until 1 pm. we would meet there on lunch breaks or go there together before work.
13. we were married for five years before we had our first baby.
14. we were so smitten with our first that we decided to have a second right away.
15. we love dogs.
16. we have had five dogs since we got married. izzy, june, jasper, betty and charley.
17. a couple of years ago we watched
the way we were together for the first time, and now we randomly sing "memories" to each other.
18. i shaved his head for his very first time when we were engaged.
19. we think that nothing smells better than coffee and evergreen trees.
20. he realized he wanted to marry me on a date at the haunted forest.
21. our moms are polar opposites.
22. he thinks the house is too cold and i think the house is too hot. all year round this goes on.
23. he is obsessed with socks. wool socks.
24. i am sick of buying him socks.
25. he introduced me to the joy of thrift shopping.
26. we now enjoy thrift shopping and yard sale's together.
27. camping is our favorite summer activity.
28. we have never been fishing together.
29. we have spent many nights on the way to visit mr.p's family that we slept in the back of the durango cause we were too tired to keep going.
30. neither of us knew what sodomy meant and asked his mom one day who died laughing at us.
31. he likes neutral paint colors for our home and i adore color.
32. we would rather go out to breakfast than out to dinner.
33. we both love vintage kitchen appliances.
34. we will one day own a smeg refrigerator.
35. he does not want to go to disneyland because he does not like waiting in lines.
36. i think this is hilarious and we will go to disneyland anyways and he will have fun.
37. he secretly is really looking forward to going to disneyland with the littles. i can tell.
38. he enjoys reading nonfiction.
39. i have a home magazine buying problem.
40. he gives me the best hugs.
41. we are more homebody's than out on the towners.
42. we look forward to swiss days each year.
43. we stay up way to late every night so that we can hang out for a bit while the littles sleep.
44. or sometimes we conk out at 8:45 waiting for them to hit the hay.
45. we still have not seen the latest james bond movie and really, really want to.
46. he always makes a big deal out of holidays.
47. and no matter how hard i try he tops me in the presents department.
48. we go on a drive up the canyon every sunday.
49. we are saving up to buy a trailer.
50. when we play tennis together he purposely hits the ball over the fence. grrr.
