Every year I make it a point to try to make a special deal out of Chris' birthday seeing that it is the day before Valentine's Day. That making it a very high potential of getting lost in the shuffle. Similar to my birthday getting lost in the shuffle of our Anniversary, but he never lets that happen! Last year was a real downer because I was in the hospital having my uterus removed due to my cancer scare, so both his birthday and Valentine's Day were lost. So I had some making up to do!
Seeing that we're in the same economic situation as so many others in the world today, this year was really about the things that matter most. In fact this year's theme was "Make Time in '09!" I truly want Chris to become healthier in many ways this year, and time is always a factor for him. So everything I did for him had that in mind.
I had to work on Friday, but as soon as I could I began preparations for his surprise dinner! The kids helped by cleaning up the house and setting the table for a nice dinner! I prepared his favorite meal, Chicken/Mushroom rolls with Rice and Chicken Gravy. I added individual baked Acorn Squash drizzled with Maple Syrup, Brown Sugar, and butter... a smashing hit! Then replacing the traditional birthday cake, I made Chris his favorite Chocolate Cream Pie and for the rest of us a Coconut Cream Pie, my first ever! I was actually impressed with myself!
After Dinner we did presents! I started out with a book that details 50 of life's most important things to remember! Also a little card to remind Chris that his "hopes are my dreams!" Then to help him with his goal of getting healthier this year, I re-enrolled him at his favorite gym! I also purchased him Bob Harper's Yoga DVD! He was soooo excited! It was the best gift he said anyone could give him! Well that and the foot rub that the girls gave him while we watched a movie! All-in-all, it was a great day for Chris!
For Valentine's it was relatively low key, but just as sweet and thoughtful. We spent the majority of the day with the kids! I always try to have a little gift and card for the kids and they always look forward to that as well. During the morning we traveled through the snow to Springville to watch Connor's last Basketball game of the season. He did awesome and his team went undefeated!
Before Chris and I went out for the evening we exchanged our little gifts with the kids and got them settled for the night. They were good to go with a night ahead of them and a tournament of Guitar Hero! As Chris walked me to our clean car I noticed my side of the car decorated with red and pink gel hearts on the window. Inside on my seat were chocolate covered hearts and my traditional TWO cards from him. It was very cute! I loved the decorated window! Chris always gets me two cards for every occasion. This time though he purchased a recordable card in which he actually sang "You are so beautiful!" Chris NEVER sings! It was awesome! I loved it! Chris had made reservations for us at a little local Italian Restaurant for dinner, and we then went to a double feature afterwards. I gave Chris his present at dinner. I had picked up another book in which there were messages of all the many different reasons I loved him. They were of course generic love messages, but I took the time to write on each page a personal message that made them pertain to just him and I. I think I decided that it is the non-bells-and-whistles Valentine's Day that suited us the best!
All that being said, I wanted to pay tribute still to my husband like I have been doing my kids on their birthdays and such ever since I started this Blog of mine. And so I thought I would capture 47-items that I know or love about him in honor of his big day! Oh, and also, the music is in honor of him as well! Because you all know I wouldn't willingly or knowingly put this stuff on my playlist! Love you baby! Happy Birthday!
1) Chris was born on February 13, 1962
2) There have been 85 Friday the 13th's in his lifetime thus far (Bet you would like to know how I figured that one out, huh!)
3) He is the youngest of 3 members of his family...all boys!
4) He is still his Momma's "Sugar-Darlin!"
5) He was born and raised in Richmond, VA
6) He went to school in an all Catholic-Boys School
7) He played tennis competitively in High School and College
8) He started out as a Culinary Chef before becoming a Pastry Chef
9) In Richmond he owned his own Bakery named "Sweet Confections"
10) His dream is to own his own Wedding Cake business again some day!
11) Favorite color is Orange
12) Zoey is his dog from his childhood reincarnated!
13) He has never been to Disneyland or Disneyworld
14) He hates change, especially sudden Change!
15) Loves sour cream!
16) Eats Ketchup on everything!
17) Thinks Fry Sauce is disgusting!
18) Has drank Diet Pepsi since he was a young child!
19) Has a hidden desire to do stand-up comedy!
20) Ran a marathon once, will never do it again!
21) Loves designing, building, and collecting any sort of Gingerbread houses (the largest one he built stood over six feet tall and five feet wide)
22) Has a weird fascination for "Weirdest Moments" or "Most Outrageous" TV type shows!
23) He is a closet "Twilight" fan!
24) His favorite Holiday is Halloween
25) His favorite season is Fall
26) He has a passion for working-out at the gym
27) His favorite part of Christmas is stuffing stockings
28) He loves chocolate almost as much as he loves me!
29) Loves watching our TV shows together!
30) Loves going to the movies
31) Loves to have his back scratched
32) Loves foot rubs
33) Loves to snuggle
34) Does NOT love to be woken up at night
35) Loves music and his iPod (Thinks it is the coolest invention ever created!)
36) Loves his children
37) Can't wait for his children to go away so that he and I can start dating again!
38) Does not like doing yard work
39) Has beautiful green eyes
40) Has a constant body temperature of 99 or higher!
41) Makes the world's best chocolate chip cookies in less than 10 minutes!
42) Always kisses me goodnight.
43) Hates drinking water!
44) Does not tolerate pain well!
45) Does not often get sick!
46) Is there for me when I am!
47) Is my best friend!
3 comments:
I never pegged you as the domestic goddess type, but your dinner sounds yummy and the pies looked edible! Chris sounds like a good guy, and a very lucky guy to have you for his wife!
Domestic Goddess??? yeah, Not even close! But yeah, I was pretty impressed with dinner and the pies!
Now all you BFFs of mine, now you are the Domestic Goddesses that I live to be like one day!
Love all the sweet things you did for your hubby. He sounds like a keeper! And he is just as thoughtful as you, to decorate your half of the car! How cute is that?
Mmmmm, you got me thinking about the acorn squash with syrup and butter. And your pie was oh-so-pretty!
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