Happy Birthday Matty!

My main squeeeeeze and numero uno Dad of the Year is turning 33 today. I truly appreciate him EVERY DAY, even when I’m giving him crap about not rinsing off his plate of mustard (don’t ask), but especially on this day, I want to reflect on his awesomeness.

We have had a crazy month or four. Big decisions. Extra work. Crazy schedule. He has been there right by my side, my equal in every way (probably my superior, honestly), supporting, picking up slack, working hard and doing it with his cute Matty grin (most of the time anyhow). Just for fun, I’m going to list 33 things that are awesome about Matt:

1. He is always thinking of cool things to show the kids and wants them to learn and experience.
2. He can seriously rock a woodshop.
3. He likes good TV.
4. He is an excellent date.
5. He is a super hard worker.
6. He cleaned up two episodes of puke in the middle of the night and didn’t wake me up.
7. He can knock out an IKEA build in record time.
8. When I leave him with the kids, I have no doubts that they will be well taken care of and happy.
9. He does laundry.
10. He gets along well with my family.
11. He is responsible with money.
12. He is tall dark and handsome.
13. He is an excellent friend and I love spending time with him.
14. He always goes the extra mile.
15. He loves Colorado.
16. He is a grill master.
17. He is very social and loves to have people over.
18. He never begrudges me a girls night out.
19. He researches every purchase to the nth degree.
20. He loves to travel.
21. He takes and picks up the drycleaning … there are donuts involved, but he still does it.
22. We have a great time talking together.
23. He is an excellent teammate and partner.
24. He has loads of enthusiasm.
25. He is very generous.
26. He loves a good road trip.
27. Ben and Tabby adore him.
28. He has the dubious task of taking the kids to school every morning.
29. Even without training, he can usually beat me out in a race.
30. He is always keen to try something new.
31. He is always keen to learn something new.
32. He places no restrictions on Tabby because she’s a girl or Ben because he’s a boy.
33. Life with him is never dull or ordinary.

We don’t tend to do major gifts for each other and since he recently got his mountain bike fixed and bought a new mobile phone – both of which were big ticket items – I’m doing something smaller.

After school and work today, Ben and I will be making him a lovely Victoria Sponge cake, filled with lemon curd along with a nice dinner. There may also be one or two other little surprises in there.