Lucky Number 3 - In His Thirties

Happy Birthday Big D!!

Today is Big D's 33rd Birthday and as I have over the last 14 years, I wanted to be the first person to wish him a happy birthday!  This year I wasn't... I'll blame the Ambien and his Best Friend who never sleeps.

Big D is beyond happy and content right where he is in life and I can only imagine it's the greatest gift he could ever ask for.  I think he is not-so-secretly hoping Sweet Kamille Baby is born today, because how awesome would that be?!

3 is his favorite number, so being 33 must mean that this year will be a great one!

There are so very many things that I love about Big D, and I've decided to write a list. I have to admit it's somewhat of a task, but one I'm happy to complete.

A list of 33... Here it goes:
1. I love that you are a dare devil and will never back down from a challenge. (I DO love this, even though I'm bound to have a few panic attacks thanks to you!)
2. I love how eclectic your taste in music is. I never know if it's going to be Texas Country, TuPac, Alice in Chains, or Phil Collins playing in your truck.
3. I LOVE that you are one helluva swimmer (Especially since I'm a non-swimmer).
4. I love the color of your eyes (Tiger eyes).
5. I love your cute tushy (ALWAYS have) & I love that you love mine!
6. I love that you win any discussion about the most rebellious thing someone has done. Hands down!
7. I love how liked you are by others because you are YOU.
8. I love the way you help and talk to elderly women and make them blush like a 20 year old.  Seriously, ADORABLE!
9. I love the way you loved your Nanny and would have move Heaven and Earth to keep her happy.  I love the way she loved you!
10. I love that you appreciate my head full of useless knowledge.
11. I love that you never pretend to be something you're not.
12. I love that you can make me laugh more than anyone else I know.
13. I love that you absolutely appreciate my shoe addiction, because you have one of your own.
14. I love that you can fix anything I break (minus the ducktape).
15. I love that you respect the way our Lil Man looks up to you.
16. I love the way you love my girlfriends and appreciate how important they are to me.
17. I love how you will grab hold of me and kiss me as if it were our last.
18. I love how much you love sports. (Did I just say that?)
19. I love that you can quote lines from so many movies.
20. I love listening to you sing (Even if you don't always know the words... Yes, it still makes me crazy!).
21. I love that you bring me coffee most Friday mornings as I get ready for work. You don't even ask if I want it, you just know!
22. I love that you don't require a hot meal every night for dinner. You are beyond happy with any meal I make!
23. I love that you will drop everything for anyone who needs help. Your heart is SO BIG!
24. I love that you will watch every single episode of Sex and the City a hundred times, just to spend another second with me!
25. I love how people in your life will never have to question your loyalty (Even if you begin to question theirs).
26. I love how possessive you are of me as your wife when people are being disrespectful to me.
27. I love how you support all my extra activities and very gently let me know when I am in over my head!
28. I love how particular you are about your hair (or lack there of).
29. I love the way you make me feel like I can do anything and succeed.
30.  I love how the baseball kids love you as their coach, when most parents think you are completely insane.  The kids love you and THAT is what counts!
31.  I love that the simplest of things keep you smiling!  Like the Big Red Thunder From Down Under!
32. I love that what we have is so very different from every other relationship, but somehow it works for us and it works so well.
33. I love that you are the man I get to spend the rest of my life with!

I love your guts Abel Jones! Have a VERY Happy, Happy Birthday!

Little White Chapel - Link Up with Holly and Mel

Holly and Mel are hosting a Wedding Deets Link Up today and so I thought... Why Not?!

Let me first start by saying that I never dreamed of having a big wedding, I never picked out a beautiful wedding dress and I never had these visions that would last a lifetime. 
My dream was to find the perfect man, have a beautiful family and spend a life together that would fill my heart with happiness every.single.day.  I am living my dream!  I NEVER stopped and wondered if a wedding was important to Big D...

SO, my first trip to Vegas and TEN YEARS into our relationship, Big D surprised me...

Location -- VEGAS, baby!  Big D told me to get dressed for a night on the town, the limo showed up (not surprised... I was born to be driven from destination to destination by a driver I can hardly understand), we pulled up to a building and got out.  Big D looked at me and said, "Will you marry me?" and my response, "What would you do if I said NO?"... He said, "It's a long walk back to Texas!"  How could I ever say "NO" to this man?!

Bridal Party -- It was just Big D and I... We wouldn't have it any other way!

Colors -- We didn't have colors, but the Vegas Strip was ALL THE COLOR I NEEDED!

First Dance -- No dance for us, so we spend most Sundays dancing around the house together.  LOVING the life we live! The song I would choose is Fat Bottomed Girls... I kid, I kid! I'd choose Feet Don't Touch the Ground by Stoney Larue.

Honeymoon -- Hellooooo! We got married in Vegas!  That was honeymoon enough for me!  I might be Miss America, but I'm a low-key Miss America. 

What Would I Change? -- Not one thing... Honestly!  This type of wedding would not work for everyone, but it's the marriage that is most important of all.  I am in a marriage that I could never have dreamed of! 

How we fell in love is so precious and this man SAVED ME!

A DOZEN Years!!!

"It was an improbable romance. He was a country boy. She was from the city. She had the world at her feet, while he didn't have two dimes to rub together. But in spite their differences, they had one important thing in common, they were CRAZY about each other." - The Notebook



Today is our twelve/two year anniversary!!

12 years ago this month, I began dating the Man of My Dreams & two years ago today, I FiNALLY married him!

I fell in Love with Big D the moment that I met him and I haven't stopped falling since that day.

I want to be one of "those" couples, the ones that are old and gray, but still look at each other with tenderness and refuse to walk alone without holding the hand of their love. I want this for us. From this day forward...

Big D, I absolutely LOVE that you picked me to go through life with and I love that no matter what happens, you are STILL the Man of My Dreams!

*Tiffany

Give Thanks - 11/10

Today, I am Thankful for a Husband who is as CRaZY as I am!! No matter how iNSaNe my ideas might seem, he works to help make them a reality. He's definitely a KeePeR!!


Big Daddy in Vegas

Wordless Wednesday - Big D Skydives

Here's the Hubster jumping out of a perfectly good airplane... Enough said!