{seventeen} reasons...

for the {seventeen} years that we are celebrating today!

(yep, we got married on Friday the 13th! it's been nothing but good luck for us!!)

1. i loved the southern accent you had when we met

2. i loved how i could tell that you were totally nervous when you asked me out for the first time

3. i loved how you told me it was a goal for you to ask me out. That told me that you were a goal-oriented person (you set that goal at the beginning of the year, our first date was on Feb. 9th)

4. i love how tall you are

5. i love your smile

6. i love your desire to be educated

7. i love your heiney

8. i love your eagerness to spend every minute you can with me and our children

9. i love when you so lovingly rub my feet

10. i love how you tell me you love me each night before we fall asleep

11. i love that we both enjoy the same things 

12. i love that you are willing to try new things

13. i love your dedication to your work

14. i love that you take our kids golfing and go on bike rides with them

15. i love that you love my cooking (even when you don't)

16. i love that you are always there to help me, with anything

17. i love that you chose me to be the one to spend the rest of your life with

i love you in so many ways. i could go on and on.

i am one lucky gal

to have you by my side

for all my life.

Then

and now

I love you forever, for always and no matter what!