50 simple things (I love about my Chris).

For this last Valentines Day, I made a list of 100 simple things that I love about Chris. Here are 50 to share with you.

1. I love your loud laugh when I am in the bedroom rocking one of the kids and I hear it fill up the house from the living room.


2. I love the way you come home. I always know it is you. The way you open the door, put your bag down and come tromping down the hall. I get excited to see you.


3. I love how you get emotional at times when you read a story out loud or sing a song. Like the Christmas when you read the story of the Jewish Santa. And the song “Sweet Caroline (Katherine).”


4. I love how you look when you are sleeping. You have several completely different handsome looks. The smart handsome with you in your dress clothes and with your glasses. The church handsome dressed up in your suit. You look like a very young general authority (te he). The relaxed handsome with you in your shorts and casual shirt bombing around the house. The sleepy handsome, the one that only I am privileged to see when I sleep next to you when you don’t have your glasses on and I see those beautiful brown eyes. And when you have your eyes closed and I look at you when you are sleeping.


5. I love your crazy bedhead. I love that hair with the little bits of silver.


6. I love when you are happy - which is all the time. That expression when you are happy. It is hard to explain but it makes me feel closer to heaven.


7. I love how you are so quick to forgive. I can be mad and say things I should not say. Then I force out a sorry because I think that no one could forgive me for what I have said. And you forgive right then and there and never bring it up again.


8. I love how you make notes of things you like. You have done a report on Camera items that you want, carefully noting the qualities of each item, price comparison and why you like it.


9. I love how you rattle off financial information or information on mortgages or knowledge about the stars and universe and scriptures and life. I often give you a blank stare in that I don’t understand but you are so patient with me. You explain over and over until I say, “oh yah, I get it.” You never get frustrated with my simple-mindedness.


10. I love how you talk in your sleep and when I tell you, “Chris, you don’t make sense, are you awake,” you say “yes, I am awake.” Then you go right back to sleep and to snoring (at times).


11. I love feeling so warm and safe in your arms when you hug me.


12. I love how you call Caeleb “Snuggy Goo!!” and you give him horsey rides. He gets so giggly.


13. I love how you need a night table so you can leave your glasses on it.


14. I love how you enthusiastically say “Good!” every time I ask how work is going.


15. I love your cooking and watching you cook. You are so precise in your measurements and timing.


16. I love how you insist on shaving before a shower so you can wash off the whiskers.


17. I love the feel of your whiskers on my cheek.


18. I love how when I mention something from the scriptures, you take it so much further and pull out other verses and broaden my understanding ever further.


19. I love how you always keep track of who has prayed last and who’s turn it is. I never do.


20. I love that you hit the snooze button and can go right back to sleep. I marvel at that. I can’t do that!


21. I love how you slap your knees to 80s music and sing along – It makes no difference to you where you are when you do it although my face may go a little red.


22. I love how you play the drums on the steering wheel.


23. I love how you eat slowly and you have everything just right and in front of you before you eat. I always lost the “slowest eater” contests when we were dating.


24. I love listening from a distance as you talk in your daily meetings with your co-workers on the phone. You have so much confidence and power in your words. I look up to that so much! If only I could capture it and have it in my own life.


25. I love how you make yourself peanut butter and chocolate chip sandwiches.


26. I love how you have to have honey on peanut butter and banana sandwhiches. It just can’t be done without the honey. I never thought about that before. Also, some types of soup are not soup to you without crackers.


27.  I love how you shiver so much even when the day isn’t that cold. Yep, that is my man from the mild, “warm” Vancouver Island.


28. I love how you whistle a tune after your phone meetings in the morning. That is how I know you are done.


29. When you go shopping, it makes me giggle and smile. Yah, a bit upset too sometimes because of what you buy at times. But I love how you justify what you buy with, “but it was on sale.”


30. I love how you go up and down the ilse when shopping. Every ilse has to be seen just in case! I remember our shopping date to Costco when we just started dating.


31. Chris’ Chilicold + Katherine’s Spanish word isimo = Chilicoldisimo. To be used on really cold days.


32. I love how you baby powder up, not only yourself, but the whole bathroom as well.


33. You love miracle whip on cheese sandwhiches and a light in the room when watching a movie.


34. I love that you were never “popular” growing up. You don’t feel like you have a “cool” reputation to uphold.


35. Open face Jam sandwiches for breakfast, lunch and snacks!


36. I love that you are not obsessed with sports. Sports really aren’t your thing and that is okay. Your idea of a good sport is a nice relaxing hike in the mountains where you can take pictures or everything!


37. I love your knowledge of the stars. I mentioned this before but I really do marvel at the knowledge you have of astronomy. You know the answers to pretty much all of my questions about life and the universe.


38. I love how you go cross eyed without your glasses on. Just a little but it is so cute and handsome all rolled into one. Elva has that too. And Caeleb – just a little.


39. You can stay up until 4:00 am watching Star Trek and Dr. Who. In fact, when you watch TV, you cannot fall asleep. That amazes me! I can fall asleep in seconds to a movie.


40. I love how you brighten up when you talk to your Mom and Dad and brothers and sisters. I can see that twinkle in your eye and hear the excitement in your voice.


41. I love how you listen to 80s music while working and I can hear it anywhere in the house.


42. I love how you can stretch out your famous egg miracle whip sandwhiches into so many. It is like Jesus feeding the multitudes with fish and bread. It is like Mary Poppins pulling out a lamp from her handbag. When I make them, I can’t make nearly as many with so few ingredients. Amazing!


43. Mrs. Dash and Garlic for every meal!


44. I love a Chris song called “Name.” (the country song). It brings memories of short car trips around Calgary. It has new meaning in our life now since loosing Lily through miscarriage.


45. I love how you call me sweetheart.


46. “Why don’t we just dance.” That song on Youtube, dancing around our old apartment. You introduced me to that song.


47. I love how you would sing “making memories of us,”when we were dating and you would focus on “I want to honor your mother.”


48. I love watching you comb your hair in the morning. You have your own style.


49. You have never complained about changing a poopy diaper.


50. I have never met anyone with as positive an attitude and as even keel a temperament as you have. 3.5 years of marriage and I still feel that way.