Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to my handsome husband!

I truly take Matthew for granted every day and it's days like today that make me stop and realize how blessed the boys and I are to have him.

Matthew is a wonderful dad.  The boys love their mom for sure but adore their dad too.  Outside is their thing and fixing things is theirs.  They always love being a part of what he is working on.  The other day Carson just watched him mow through the window.  They love to wave goodbye to him every morning from the garage door.  Matthew is great at trying to invest in them.  He not only just plays with them but works with them and tries to teach them all the things they should be learning at their ages.  He is always working on instilling discipline.  ( much better at it than me, I'm much quicker to loose my cool)

He is the spiritual leader of this house, he is always there for me.  Prays for me and the boys, and prays with our boys.

He is smart, hard working and provides for us, which allows me to stay at home most days.
His patients love him.  He really gives them his focus, time and knowledge and is great at what he does.
We are so proud of him for that!

He isn't selfish and is always giving of his time to someone or something!
He's quick to help when I ask.

He can work me up like nobody else in the world, but he can also calm me down like nobody else can!

We are extra thankful for him today on his special day!


Happy 30th Birthday!

Meet My Other Half Link Up

I saw this think up and thought this was a great idea.  You always get to hear from me and Wednesday's happen to be Matthew's day off so he had no excuses but to sit here and answer these fun questions.  

1. What are your thoughts on your {wife's} blog?  She is a hard worker and has done a good job on it.  I'm just glad that she enjoys doing it.  Mostly, it keeps her out of the taverns...
2. Do you know what IG stands for? How about OOTD? A quick Google Search tells me that its "Inspector General."  I doubt that's the answer you had in mind. Google did tell me that OODT is "outfit of the day." However, it would make more sense to me if it was "OfoTD."  Oddly, I thought I kept up with these phrases fairly well. I'll have to ask Jen about IG later.  I must admit, some of the blogger lingo, like "amazeballs" tends to annoy me. 
3. How long would you say you've been together?  I would say that I agree with whatever Jen says...  but probably around 9 years.  Dated for 2 years, married for almost 7.
4. Does her working out and eating healthy make you want to join in?  Haha... Not a chance.  People make fun of me for working out. I tried muscle sculpting about a year ago... turns out when you have no body mass, its hard to tone nothing.  Don't be hating, ladies.  Just telling it like it is; I am 5'10" and have never weighed more than 140 lbs on a good day, with shoes on and pockets full.  
5. Is there anything you can do to inspire her to workout/eat healthier?  I am proud of what she does already.  In fact, I think she thinks about losing weight too much.  We have made a lot of changes already to improve what foods we eat.  To me, some people take it over board.  So far I'm ok with the changes to our eating choices.
6. What do you love best about fit/healthy life?  The fact that I no longer have to hear Jen complain about hives everyday.  Also, since she no longer takes 15 benadryl a day, she can stay up later with me (I'm a night owl).  
7. What do you like least?  Sometimes the working out and marathon training takes valuable time, so she gets frusterated.  
8. How long did it take you to agree to answer these questions?   5 to 10 minutes... took longer to agree on a photo.  

And here is the hubs in pictures!  We realized as we go through pictures that all we have is pictures of the kids and we never take them together!    We need to work on that!  

Our Wedding day almost 7 years ago!

 Our Engagement Picture

2010 When we were only a family of 3

2012 at Carson's 1st Birthday Party