Tomorrow is Chris’ 29th birthday, and since I have written happy birthday posts for Corbin (and plan to write one for Bennett) I thought I should include my hubby in the fun. There is a note going around on facebook that requires you to write 25 random things about yourself, but I thought in honor of dear husband’s birthday I might instead list 25 random things you might not know about Chris!
1) He jumps into bed. I mean literally, as in both feet off the floor at exactly the same time, landing on his side with a spectacular flop. And he does this every single night, regardless of his mood or energy level.
2) He regularly has deep introspective conversations with me about who he would be if he were a super hero. He almost always decides he’d be Batman, but we have to have the conversation anyway.
3) He loves to cook big elaborate Saturday morning breakfasts for the boys and me.
4) He struggles with where to use the words ‘gone’ or ‘went.’ What I find so adorable is that he knows he has this problem and often stops to think about which one to use, and then invariably chooses the wrong one anyway.
5) He has to have a favorite character on every show we watch. This character might change from week to week, but there is ALWAYS a favorite.
6) He knew he wanted his first born son to be named Corbin before we ever met. And while I tell people its a word out of the Bible that means a gift set aside for God, he actually got the name from the Bruce Willis character in the movie Fifth Element.
7) If he could live anywhere in the world it would be in the mountains in British Columbia Canada.
8 ) He isn’t afraid of anything…except SHARKS!
9) He knows more about vampires and zombies than he knows about Geography, Classic Literature or American History. If they made a monster version of Trivial Pursuit he would own your a** every time.
10) His pet name for both of our boys is ‘Ninja.’
11) Although he didn’t always do well in a class room environment, he can sit down with just about any programming language manual and teach it to himself in a week.
12) He is one of the most servant hearted people I’ve ever met. He treats strangers like friends and friends like family, and there is nothing he wouldn’t do for a person in need.
13) He tries not to be to messy when it comes to our house, but when it comes to his car, all bets are off! The boys and I won’t even go near the thing for fear of what might be living in the glove box or sticking to the door handle!
14) His favorite band of all time is 311 but his music tastes are pretty varied these days.
15) He paid every cent of his own way through college by working as a full time projectionist at a movie theater, waiting tables and later doing web design with his best friend Luke.
16) He and I met while we were both waiting tables at Princeton’s Grill.
17) He hates gangster movies because he finds them really troubling, but horror movies don’t phase him.
18) He can and has fixed just about everything around our house by himself from the dryer to the garbage disposal to the garage door.
19) He can’t wait until the boys get older so that he can coach their Pee Wee Soccer team.
20) He has a series of dances, all of which are named after animals, that he does when he is in a good mood. Ie: the happy bear dance, the crazy monkey dance and so on and so forth. The dance moves are all pretty much the same, its just his facial expression that varies from one dance to the next.
21) His favorite junk food is Crystals and his favorite beer is Guinness.
22) He was in a Johnny Cash music video when he was a toddler.
23) Even though he is 29 his family still buys him Star Wars toys for every Christmas and Birthday.
24) He hardly ever gets sick so when he does its as if the world might end (this one comes to mind because he is currently on day 5 of a rather nasty sinus infection and dear Lord is he ever feeling pitiful!)
25) He makes sound effects for just about everything he does…God really knew what he was doing when he gave this man sons!
but my very first and very favorite job was working on a large horse farm. Three other kids and I got paid minimum wage to feed and water the horses, muck out their stalls, dump buckets of horse manure that weighed as much as we did onto the back of a spreader, turn out the horses, cobweb the stalls, fill the outdoor water troughs, throw down hay bails from the loft and generally get as dirty and smelly as we could possibly get in the process. I did this every Saturday from 6 a.m. until 5 p.m. in the bitter cold and sweltering heat from the time I was thirteen until I was almost fifteen, at which point I had saved up enough money to buy a horse of my own. I have never been so tired or or so satisfied after a day of work in my entire life.
