Happy 28th Birthday Matt!

This is what you looked like last year.

This is what you look like now!

 Today is your 28th birthday!!!

These are things about you that are true today:

 Jobs: Client Service Coordinator at Banfield Pet Hospital & Daddy

Things I love about you: You are my very best friend.  You love the Lord.  I am so thankful that God gave me such a faithful husband.  You are also hilarious and incredibly loving.  You are an individual--you do things when you want, how you want.  You have great compassion.   You are an amazing husband to me. You are an incredible father to Tyndall. 

You are my favorite person to hang out with. I love that you kill spiders and bugs for me even though you don't like them either. You love Nala & Zoe so much.  You remind me to turn to Jesus instead of you sometimes. You really love your family. You aren't perfect, and you know it. You're real! You help me to be real. I love your eyes. Your kisses. Your hugs. I love how you get excited about things I think are silly. You do the dishes and laundry. You read out loud to me.  You do yard work.

 

Activities/Interests: Movies!, Pets, Hanging out with me, Nala & Zoe, spending time with Family, Reading, TV (stuff we have on DVD or can watch online), Aquariums, Wii-ing,  watching scary movies, photography, animals, playing games (Nertz, Spades, Settlers...), playing games on your Kindle, watching Spongebob, cartoons, traveling.

Favorite foods: Fried turkey, Japanese, Italian food, Sushi, Salads. Ginger's frosting. Desserts! Sugar, Brown Sugar, Powdered Sugar. Raw hamburger meat. Stove Top. Rice. 

Least Favorite foods: Anything Breakfast. Meatloaf. Grandma's Mac & Cheese.

Things you did while you were 27:  Took lots of grad school classes-spent a few weeks in Virginia at Liberty.  Our home study was finally approved!  Paid off all our credit cards!  Got a Great Dane.  Bought a house.  Student taught at an elementary school & at a high school.  Got a veiled chameleon. Became a Dad!  Got your Master's Degree!  

Favorite Movies/Shows: too many to name: (You didn't finish watching all of your movies that you own in 2012.), The Nightmare Before Christmas, Blue Planet, Planet Earth, Christopher Guest movies, Transformers series, LOTR series, lots of cartoons...

 

Last year, I wrote about how we had so much to celebrate last year.  It was much more joyful than the previous year.  And look at what God did this year!  A house, a completed degree, and a son!  There were some challenging times, definitely busy times, but how wonderful things are now!  God has answered so many of our prayers. I am so thankful God has allowed us to live life together. 

 I love you, Matthew! Happy 28th Birthday!

P.S.  You just got your diploma in the mail.  Congratulations!