Corny.

Maybe I'm just in a lovey dovey mood. (if you don't like corny, you can just move on and skip this post)
Or maybe its because Garth has been gone most of the day.
Or MAYBE its because he's gone everyday, and I'm mostly here doing online classes.
Possibly.
But I just am filled with a lot of gratitude for my husband tonight. I probably should say I am always full of gratitude for him--but tonight I'm especially overflowing.
Garth always has a full schedule. His school work is really demanding and hard. We are both students, but I don't have the pressure of perfect grades for grad school so I willingly procrastinate. Garth is currently being trained to be the executive secretary in the ward, and he is beginning to work two different jobs. Somehow he still finds time to clean the kitchen, or make dinner one night, or sit down and play checkers with me. (I destroyed him).
Most of all he always makes me smile.
There are a lot of moments I don't want to forget.

Like that time he planned all the meals for the week, went to the grocery store, and wrote them all out on the menu planner and WOULD NOT LET ME COOK. When I asked him why he wasn't letting me cook he said, "I want to cook for the whole week. Not many husbands can say they cooked dinner for their wife for the whole week."

Or that time I was sick and hooked up to an IV and he said "Lets play a game called GUESS WHAT I'M THINKING!". I thought he was kidding, but he was dead serious. I thought of something easy, and it didn't take him long to guess it.
You just ask questions like "Is it a person place or thing?" "Do you use it in the house?" "Do we own one?" etc. 
What did Garth think of? A window. Who guesses a window? Garth sat there and laughed at me because I had no idea and he was so excited to stump me. My clues were, they're in your house, and you can't drive without them. Really?
So to make it harder I thought of a push pin. Garth asked questions and deciphered things for almost 40 minutes until he finally got it. At this point he wanted to play again and I said "Are you kidding? I thought of a push pin so you would never want to play again."

Or that time that Garth danced with me in the kitchen when I was upset. That's actually happened a couple times...he's a good man.

Or that time I was really really stressed and Garth and Kyle were hanging out in the living room. I told them I was going for a drive. I didn't realize that to men that meant they were in trouble. I came home to an empty sparkling clean house. 10 minutes later Garth and Kyle came back with flowers. When I told him he hadn't done anything wrong he was surprised. He thought for sure I had been mad at him. But hey I got flowers right? [:

Or the look on Garth's face the first time he held my hand. He was terrified. I later found out he had tried to convince himself to do it about three times previous to the time he actually did. 

I even laugh to think about the times Garth and I tried to end things and move on. We were long distance and both thought we were a little crazy. It didn't work.

Or when we got called to be Ward Librarians and Garth's first response was, "YES. Now you get to be the HOT LIBRARIAN. SWEET." haha..

I love that Garth and I can pick on each other and laugh. Sometimes his wit surprises me.

I love seeing Garth with kids. I remember one time watching a movie at his sister Ana's and looking over to see Garth asleep with his nephew Aiden sitting in his lap asleep.

I love that when we were dating I had a favorite song that reminded me of him, and he went home and learned how to play it on the piano, recorded it, singing and all, and sent it to me.

Or that time we had a picnic on a pair of Garths jeans from his car because we forgot a blanket. [:

And that time I told Garth to be careful blowing out the candles, and he didn't listen and got hot wax allllll over his face.

The time he told me he wanted to marry  me, and all I could say was "Oh Okay, thats nice." (didn't feel like I had that answer for myself yet.)
And then I took him to the bountiful temple --my fav-- to tell him I got my answer and I wanted to Marry him too. And he got really nervous when I started talking and thought that I was ending it with him.. haha. I said, "really? you thought I brought you to the temple so I could say 'yeah can't marry you but I'll marry someone else here someday'". haha. 

 Or when I was miscarrying and he just drew on my back while I cried. He gave me countless blessings, each one with words I needed to hear.

I just love him. Best friend I could have ever hoped for.