Ben has been a part of my life for just over a decade now, and I thought a post was in order to list the 10 things I love most about the person I have known and loved for about 10 years now. Plus, with all the past time post as I catch up, I figured a present one was in order. I can’t believe how fast time flies! It seems like just yesterday I was sitting next to the cute blonde boy, who had just told me how much he liked me, as we were flying home from Branson, Missouri. I am so grateful for every year since then, and this post is dedicated to the 10 reasons why.
Disclaimer: This post is about to get VERY cheesy. I love how Ben treated me so wonderfully as his friend, just to treat me better as his girlfriend, just to be even sweeter when I was his fiancé, just to be even more incredible when I became his wife, and got even more amazing (if that is even possible) when I became the mother of his child. It seems so often, relationships diminish in the romance department as time goes by, and I am so lucky to be with a man who cares enough to keep things fun and keep finding ways to show me every day just how much he loves me, and proving just how lucky I am. I tell ya, folks-I got the better end of the deal when it comes to marriage. Ben, I love you and thank you for making me the luckiest girl in the world!
#1-I love how Ben pretends to not want something just so I can have the last piece of pizza or cake or candy or last anything really. I have to really fight him to take it when I am not even interested and he really wants it.
#2-I love how he helps around the house, like ALL the time, without being asked. This is rare-I know-and being the OCD neat freak that I am, it means so much to me! He has even stayed up until 3 a.m. to help me get the house perfectly clean. I also love that every time he vacuums he lets me be the first to walk on the carpet. I just love the way the carpet feels after it is just vacuumed on my bare feet. Yup, I am a weird one. He also helps out by cooking. He cooked pretty much the entire time I was pregnant with Jayden, due to horrible 9-month long morning sickness, and can now cook pretty much everything I can. I have been cooking since I was 8, so that is saying something!
#3 I love how Ben will (and always has) randomly turned up a song and insisted he dance with me. Whether pulling over randomly on the side of the road in high school, to stealing me away from the mop to romance me in the middle of one of the late night cleanings mentioned above. It is so adorable and romantic and I just love it!
#4-I am SO grateful he loves and honors me, and took me to the temple to be sealed for time and all eternity. I am so grateful I get to call him mine forever.
#5-I love that after a long and hard day I come home to a relaxing bubble bath, candles, comfort food and music or a chick flick waiting for me. I am especially grateful for those times he does this for me after I have vented and taken my frustrations out on him. That is love on his part right there-BIG time!
#6-I am grateful for what an incredible priesthood holder he is and how hard he tries to better himself as a person to be the best he can be. He is a good example of bettering yourself every single day, and inspires me to do the same.
#7-I am SO grateful for what an incredible husband and father he is. He loves Jayden and I SO much and sacrifices so much to take care of us, and show us just how much he love us. Jayden and I just adore him, and for good reason too!
#8-I love how sweet and tender he is with me. I am spoiled all too often with amazing massages, romantic love letters, and sweet surprises. He always finds a way to turn a hard day into a happy one, and a tear into a smile. I love him so much for that. He is sensitive and that is a strength in men, my friends, not a weakness.
#9-I love his eyes and his smile and his broad shoulders and just all of him! He is so handsome and I am so lucky to have landed such a good looking and absolutely incredible man to be my best friend, my husband, my companion and the father of my children. I am SO overwhelmed with gratitude every day for him!
#10-I know that this post has focused on a lot of the wonderful things, but the thing I love most about Ben is his willingness to work through the not so wonderful times in life alongside me. We have been through so much the past 10 years, and it is so comforting to know that through all the times of weakness in life and in our relationship, we have come out that much closer and stronger and better for it.
Love is not the passion and romance and everything being perfect, but the little things. The patience, the forgiveness, the friendship, the compassion, and the charity. The passion and romance is amazing, don’t get me wrong, but it is the much deeper emotions that keep love alive and strong.
I LOVE you SO much Ben! Thank you for the past AMAZING 10 years and here is to many, many more to come! I am so excited for life and eternity with you!
Always and Forever!
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