I loveth thou, let me count the ways.....

Things I love about you Abbey:

1. Your beauty (I'm proud to have you beside me - I married up for sure)
2. Your eyes (They've always been pretty enough to paint, Betty just beat me to it)
3. Your smile (It can be seductive when genuine)
4. Your hair (Whether it's straight or curly or both)
5. Your way of decorating (Even strangers feel at home)
6. Your willingness to help others in need (You're a magnet)
7. Your uncanny power to always have the ingredients for cooking dump cake (One of my favorites)
8. Your growth in your relationship to the Lord (Even through the pain)
9. Your strength (Many people lean on you)
10. Your way of changing direction in your passions so easily (From People magazine and TV to reading Crabb, painting, and writing)
11. Your common sense (It's not really hard to stand out in that category living with Mr. Gullible)
12. Your submissiveness to me even when I'm wrong (Thanks)
13. Your love for your family (And sometimes mine)
14. Your giddiness with me and the children (I really like it, it's just so loud sometimes)
15. Your opera voice (not your Mrs. Bunker as much)
16. Your sense of style (Again, not that hard when living with me, where people need 3-D glasses to look at me when I dress myself)
17. Your ability to win any argument just because you want to (I'd love to be that smart)
18. Your commitment to making sure that we have pictures of our family (Left to me, we'd have nothing but memories)
19. Your ability to vocalize the needs in your life (Rare, in my world)
20. Your brother Rob (What a great friend I've found)
21. Your sense of how to think like me when you have to (So you understand)
22. Your purity (Thank you)
23. Your taste in music (The White Oaks of course)
24. Your protection of our children's eyes and minds (To even ripping pages out of a library book)
25. Your patience in letting me watch football (War Eagle)
26. Your being proud of me (That means so much to me)
27. Your being willing to stay home with so many children (Sometimes some that aren't even ours)
28. Your silky pillow case (If you were gone, I'd miss the sound of swish-swish-swish as your trying to soothe yourself to sleep)
29. Your ability to keep a secret (And your faith in me to trust me with them too)
30. Your laughter (You really are a fun person to be with)
31. Your humbleness to drive a minivan b/c of your children (There are some moms who won't)
32. Your growing love and trust in the Lord (There's nothing greater)
33. Your love for me (I lovest thee as well)