10 things I love about you...

I'm feeling a little sentimental today. After all, it's Jason's and my 10th anniversary. So I thought I'd actually put into words a few of the things I love about my hubby and peas:

To Jason:

1. You can always make me laugh. Regardless of the situation.
2. Only you know how to make me feel like the most beautiful woman on earth. Even though I swat you away and tell you not to grab me in public, I secretly like the way you can't keep your hands off me. [But I'm still gonna pretend like I don't.]
3. I love the way your lips curl when you fib...and how you try to hide it by grinning a big cheesy grin.
4. I love your matter-of-fact, no BS way of dealing with people. That way folks always know where they stand with you. I wish I could be more like that.
5. You keep me young. Your horsing around and playing makes me feel like a kid again -- even when I'm trying to be serious. When you tackle me and throw me over your shoulder, I feel weightless and giddy just like when we were teenagers.
6. I love watching you play with our children.
7. You're good at everything! You're athletic. You're smart. You can beat those stupid video games. Man, you're amazing!
8. You can put me at ease and I know I can lean on your strength to get me through anything.
9. I love your intense, take-no-prisoners approach to sports. You take it so seriously, and I like to see you so involved in something you enjoy.
10. You're the only person in the world that knows how to "brush my feet."

To Hannah:

1. I love how you stare intently at me when I'm telling you something new. How you hang onto my every word and believe everything I say.
2. You make me laugh -- even when you don't try.
3. I love your great big imagination.
4. You see everything as BEAUTIFUL. You remind me to stop and take note of the small things I often overlook...a teeny flower hidden beside the doorstep, a caterpillar, a star or cloud.
5. Your laugh is the most beautiful music in the world.
6. I love the way you hug me and kiss me -- especially at bed time.
7. I love the way you squnch up your nose when you smile.
8. You bring out the best in me.
9. I love watching you play. Whether it's computer games, or "pets" or babies -- you are so intense when you're in your own little world.
10. I love the way you're starting to do more things on your own. Brushing your teeth, getting in the tub or bed by yourself, dressing yourself -- it's exciting and sad at once.

To Carter:

1. I love how you wave -- like Granddaddy waving from the porch. Arm straight up, fingers spread out.
2. I love to hear you babbling and pretending that we understand what you say. (Like Roll Tide, although I still say you're just saying "rah rah.")
3. Your hugs make my heart melt.
4. Your sweet little smile when you're doing something you shouldn't makes it SO HARD to get onto you!! (But you already knew that!)
5. I love the way you love your night-night.
6. I love your on-command smile. Everybody else does, too.
7. I love how strong and brave you've been since your accident -- even when you have every right to scream and try to run away.
8. I love how you've made our lives "interesting." There's never a dull moment when Carter is around!
9. I love how you hold my finger and lead me around.
10. I love how you cross your little feet when you sleep in your carseat.

God smiled on me the day you each came into my life, and I can't imagine my life without the three of you. Even though I don't always do a good job of showing it, I love you three more than life itself...always remember that.