My darling husband is turning thirty four. I can hardly believe we have been married for coming up on five years. Despite the trials (my brother's passing, soon-to-be three moves and three beautiful but trying kids!) I have never felt so blessed. Whitney, that's because of you! You are my greatest blessing. Look at this guy--how could he not be a blessing!
For your birthday I thought I'd list 100 things I love about my wonderful husband: 1. First and foremost your love for the gospel. It inspires me. Your willingness to help, to give, to bless others is inspiring.
2. Your love for your kids is truly amazing. I am so grateful to have such a wonderful father for my children!
3. Your love for me--I am so glad that even after 6 years of knowing you, you still show me you love me every day.
4. Your adorably unique way of seeing the world. How can I explain this? Let me just say, you came up with "Mosting."
5. Your sense of humor. This will be a no-brainer for anyone who reads your blog. You brighten my life.
6. Your hard work--you work so hard to support our family and I am so grateful for your willingness to slog through whatever gets thrown at you to "bring home the bacon."
7. Your easy going nature (which I take advantage of sometimes). You let me pick so many many things.
8. How you take care of everyone around you. I first saw it with your mom, but you take care of your mom, your sisters, your brothers, your friends. Everyone's life is better for having you in it.
9. Your generosity. This one may go hand in hand with number eight, but it's different. You are always willing to give and not just to family and friends. You are the only person I know with a stack of McDonald's gift cards and a few cans of chili in your car for homeless people.
10. Your strength--here I am talking about sheer, brute, HULK-type strength. I'll never forget when we first moved to Hershey and I saw you rip a double sink sized counter right off the cabinets in the bathroom. It was glued down but that didn't stop you. Muscles bulging--my hero. :-)
11. Your smile is beautiful, and infectious.
12. Your silliness. You once pointed out that my brother Jesse, in addition to being smart, could also be silly. You were saying it as a compliment, since those things seldom go hand in hand. Well, they do with you too. I love your silly streak.
13. I love how excited you get when your car goes zoom.
14. That little boy excitement--I LOVE IT and you're the only person I know who has it. You dance when our kids are born--a little dance of joy. You get a silly grin on your face when you get a new gun. I could go on and on. I love your excitement for life.
15. You have thoughtfulness that puts others to shame. I remember when we were first dating and you made me a scrubs pillow/pillowcase to hug when you were gone, you made me a stamp chest and then whittled me a little kangaroo to put my rings in... Stephen (a friend from work) said, "Man, tell that guy to tone it down. He's making the rest of us look terrible." He was right. You put the other guys I'd met to shame. You still do.
16. Your guilt. How can I love your guilt, you ask? Because you feel all this guilt just for sleeping. How could that be a positive? You want to help me out, you want to spend time with your kids and family so much that you feel guilty for SLEEPING and not being with us. That is a manifestation of your love for us and I am so grateful for it. Now, get over it and sleep already. Haha.
17. Your frugality. You are willing to toss your frugality on the pile for me, which I appreciate, but when left to your own devices, you economize. I love that. You were so frugal when I met you. It impressed me then and it still does.
18. Your beautiful eye. Are they blue? Yellow? Green? I love trying to figure it out!
19. Your teeth. Glad your parents got you braces. Money well spent!
20. You have great legs...
21. I am so impressed by your running. 7 miles at the drop of a hat--holy cow.
22. You help me so much with the kids. I really appreciate it.
23. You also help around the house--laundry, dishes, etc.
24. I love your cooking. Chicken parmesan, enchiladas, grilled pizza, to name a few.
25. I love how you always clean up after dinner, no matter who cooked. :-)
26. You support my crazy baby clothes-buying habits.
27. You always walked my dog, even though you didn't even like dogs.
28. You look really hot with a shaved head. :-) Good thing your mom rotated you like a rotisserie chicken!
29. I loved those wrinkles around your eyes when we met. Now, many thousand smiles later, I love them even more.
30. Your humility--I should have put this up higher on the list. When we met it was the very first thing that attracted me to you. You could have been preening like a peacock about being so smart, and so good looking but instead you were very humble, crediting your accomplishments all to hard work. I love you for that.
31. Your height. I love that you're so tall and I can stand completely under your chin (unless I'm in heels.) It makes me feel small and cute.
32. You always tell me I'm beautiful, even when I'm 190 pounds and pregnant, or after I have the baby and I'm 40 pounds over weight.
33. You insist on moving anything even slightly heavy--one of the many ways you take care of me.
34. I love that you wanted me to find someone to clean the house for me. Thank you for pampering me.
35. And similarly, that you wanted me to get help after having this baby. You spoil me.
36. You bought me a kindle before I even knew I wanted one--and you never complain about the multitudinous books I buy, despite the mounting expense!
37. You always take care of whatever stresses me out--taking the baby to doctor appointments and giving her baths until she's a little older--to spare me the stress of hearing her cry.
38. You always surprise me with little things to show your support--like the Christmas you bought me all those baby carebears for Dora's room (before she was born).
39. You never complain about girl movies. (Well maybe a little but you're a good sport.)
40. You are totally incompetent at facebook, which I love about you.
41. You are always helping people out with medical advice.
42. I LOVE that you're a doctor. It's HOT and also just impressive.
43. You support me working.
44. You support me writing. Remember when you sent me to Panera Bread every single day off you had so I could write my second book? Yeah.
45. You watch the baby so I can do situps or work on my scrapbooking.
46. You helped me make cards for a while too--even buying me a "Whidget" stamp.
47. I guess this is sort of like 42, but I love having a doctor around with tiny kids. Any question I have, all the little things they bonk and knock and smash--I have you here to ask all my questions and be a hypochondriac,
48. I love when you can fix the kids up--like when we were in Bandon and Dora got that eye infection and you just took care of it--so much easier than finding an urgent care...
49. I love your dedication to reading your scriptures.
50. I love your love for the prophet and your respect for the local authorities.
51. I love the love you have for your mom, your dad, and your family. It was what first helped me realize what a good hubby you would be.
52. Even though you think our kids are spoiled (what?! haha) you spoil them anyway--getting them treats, buying them a dozen toys for their birthday. I love seeing how much you love them in spite of your hangups about material things.
53. I love your blog. So funny and sweet.
54. I love how you take the kids on little trips and adventures. Very cute.
55. I love your freckles. SO CUTE. :-)
56. I think it's cute how easily you burn. I know this is an odd thing to remember fondly but when on our honeymoon I sort of sloppily just put some sunblock on your back (because who really needs it anyway, right? I never burn...) and then you had white hand prints on there that didn't burn and everything else was red... Sad!
57. I love how you like to swim at night.
58. I love your obsession with guns. And cars. And camping. I love how you get all worked up about things.
59. Your excitement about things like a cross country drive is really cute.
60. Your kindness to MY family is wonderful and a blessing. You're always thinking of things you want to do or buy for my dad or brother.
61. I love that you supported my sister living with us for a year.
62. I am so grateful you're letting us move down right by my family.
63. I love that you let me basically make all the decisions about things like a house, etc.
64. I love how you always have candy bars. And gatorade.
65. I love your desire to have a year supply of food. And then some.
66. You supported me in going up to Dallas like every weekend when we were in Temple. I really appreciate that and always will because that helped you get to know Jesse while that was possible. And it helped me mend some fences.
67. I love how you always drive because I hate it.
68. I love that you plan all our trips and handle all the legwork.
69. I am always impressed by your directional capabilities. I even love our detours, like that one we took up on the East Coast while you were at Harvard for that rotation...
70. I love your propensity to get little snacks whenever we stop, even at Target.
71. I love your love of travel. Like seeing the Danube, for instance--we'll enjoy that one day.
72. I appreciate your patience with me when I am slow or get caught up in something.
73. I love how you deal with my crazy. From baby fits to spastic hormonal outbreaks, you take it all in stride.
74. I love how you want to be wherever I want to go--even if it's Disneyworld or Paris, which might not be your ideal vacations.
75. I love going with you and the kids to our condo out in Florida. Such fun memories! And many more to come.
76. I love cooking with you.
77. I look forward to doing P90X with you--you motivate me in so many ways, it will be nice to work out together.
78. I love that you did Body Pump AND Body Flow with me. SUCH a great guy. And secure!
79. I love you will wear what I want you to--like a full size Ken Doll!
80. I love how you trust me to handle things, but aren't critical when I foul up.
81. I love how you spin your wedding ring with boyish charm, but if you press me, I'll never admit it again.
82. I love how capable you are--from remodeling a house to putting up new blinds or working on a car. If I need it done, you can do it. You just do it.
83. I love what a good father figure you are for Eli. He couldn't have a better role model.
84. I love that you will say sorry if you did something wrong.
85. I really really love that you'll say sorry to me even when you didn't.
86. I love your adorable backside. You won't want me to put that in here, but I figure no one else is reading it by now, so my secret is safe. It's why I love those jeans I made you buy. Yummy. :P
87. I love that you just pop some excedrin and get up even when you're tired if I need help or if I am sleep deprived.
88. I love how you let people yank your schedule around and mistreat you because you want to be a team player--and you never complain. Don't worry--I do it for you.
89. I really appreciate how hard you worked to get where you are--and I am so glad you're the example for our kids to follow.
90. I love that you support me in things you don't even want me to do-like pumping-if I say it's what I want. And even when it makes your life much harder.
91. I love that you never criticize me for buying anything. Not many husbands can say that. (Mostly that might be because I am so close to perfect that my purchases are all good ones.. haha.)
92. I love when you curl up around me. It makes me feel loved.
93. I love that you're not afraid of PDA.
94. I love that you tell me you love me all the time, in front of other people and your family, too.
95. I LOVE that you never ever flirt with anyone else and only have eyes for me.
96. I love that you don't even admit to liking any movie stars. It makes me feel loved. :-)
97. I love that you bring me treats--even when I'm on a diet, shame on you.
98. I love that you always want the best for us and work hard to make it happen.
99. I love how you hug me. And you always make sure you hug and kiss me before you go to work.
100. Mostly I just love spending every single minute I can with you. I drink it in. Your time off is my best time.
I love you Whitney Taft Baker... every single whit of you. :-)
xoxoxoxo
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Bridget
5 comments:
I love this! Especially how you do all the complaining for him about his schedule - I can relate to that! Sounds like you got yourself one great guy :) And I definitely read the part about his butt ;)
Happy Birthday Whitney!
I love how you still call me Aunt Jane and come to visit me when you come to M.L.
Bridget, I was still reading... I read every last one and enjoyed it. You're a grateful wife and that is one thing that helps to make you guys such a good pair. (I loved your closing line.)
Happy Birthday Whitney. I love and appreciate you.
So i just read all the 100 things without knowing one of you but i absolutely love the idea and the style of the text. I really enjoyed reading!
Oh, and I live near the Danube :)
Oh...and I love Whitney because he married Bridget.
Bridget, what a nice tribute to a first-rate fellow. You are a lucky lady to have such a great husband. I didn't know if I'd have time to read all 100, but I did.
Tell Whit happy birthday for us again.
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