This blog post is dedicated to my amazing husband, Matt, without whom I would not be the person I am today.
Happy Birthday to you my wonderful husband!
There aren't enough words I could say to describe how wonderful you truly are.
He is the first one to offer to help friends and family when they need it. He is kind, generous, extremely hardworking, loving, understanding, and absolutely brilliant with an incredible sense of humor. Oh does that man make me laugh. Friends & family, you know what I exactly mean.
So today I want to tell a couple short stories about the generosity of this man because he has never wanted credit for doing things for others. He has always said that's like celebrities donating to a cause and then telling the world how wonderful they are for doing that. He doesn't do things to selfishly make himself look good. He does them because he is genuinely a generous person who loves to help... however secretly it is.
When I first moved up here, I was having a hard time being away from friends and family. I was completely homesick. Matt, not even thinking twice, asked me what friend did I need to see to help with homesickness and he quickly booked a plane ticket for them to come up and visit. Just for me. Now that the years have gone by, there have been several more plane tickets bought for family/friends to visit us, but it was really his way of bringing home up to me. I can never really express how much that meant to me during those times. It just made me love him even more.
I will also never forget a few years ago, when there was a dark period in my family and my baby sister was supposed to head off to school in Maryland. Because of the things going on, no one knew how she was going to get there all the way from Indiana. Matt, not even budging, started pricing out rental cars for us (because we didn't trust my little car at that time) and we started to map out how we were going to swing this because we weren't going to let the things going on in our family stop my little sis from going to university. So we, or Matt actually, drove from Canada to Indiana to Maryland and back. Which is a very, very long trek, but in the end my sister made it to school and that's what mattered. Fortunately, by the time we reached Indiana, my parents decided to help too, so it all worked out. The fact that he was so quick to jump in to help make sure my little sister got to university is just a prime example of what a great guy he is. I can't thank him enough.
Lastly, I cannot even explain the depth of how supportive he has been throughout our very long and emotional journey to start our family. He has been my rock and pillar of strength. Always keeping his wonderful humor throughout the process and ready to do whatever it takes. He is going to be the best dad and our future children hit the jackpot for the father and role model they will have in their life. I can't express how much your love & support means to me. I love you to the moon babe!
He is probably going to kill me for posting some of the wonderful things he's done because he likes to do them secretly and selflessly without telling the world. But I think the world deserves to know what an amazing guy he is and just a few of the many generous things he does. It's just the tip of the iceberg in the great things he's done.
I love you and Happy Birthday Handsome!
Don't kill me for posting some goofy pictures hahaha!
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| Beautiful smile :) |
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| Cute as a button. |
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| Shower cap to protect all that hair. |
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| Merry Christmas. Santa likes BBQ & Beer. |
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| Ice skating with Tobey |
Love you! Have a great day!
