Happy 30th Bday, Zac!

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you,

happy birthday dear Za-ac, happy birthday to you!

Today is Zachariah's 30th birthday, he's been soooo excited, it's all he could talk about for the past couple of years in fact! Let's see...what to say about someone as special as Z...I've known him for 8 years now (and 1 month, technically). Eight years ago today, in fact, we weren't quite officially dating, and I brought him some special coookies for his 22nd birthday. No, not those type of special cookies, this was BYU, remember? Haha...okay, not funny. Those birthday cookies were actually made by my sister, and I was at her place typing a paper and remembered it was the bday of "this guy who likes me", so she let me take him a plateful. And that plate of cookies cinched the deal, he was in love. The rest is history. Okay, that's not really true, either, but everything worked out one way or another and now, 8 years later, I'm married to a wonderful 30-year-old, who is still 22 (sometimes 14, or maybe 17) at heart.

He's such an amazing daddy, and he does soooo much for me. I know this will come as a shock to most of you, but I am lazy. Yes, lazy. Zachariah is not, he's always getting stuff done around the house. I'll wake up from napping on a Saturday morning, and he'll have a pile of emptied boxes to take out, or he'll have tried to clean the kitchen, or he'll have planted a garden. He loves to camp, hike, rockclimb, geocache, and scuba dive and is really good at all that stuff. He's super handy and can fix cars and all sorts of things. He's also pretty talented at building, and even finished our basement back in VA all by himself. (Well, with my help, of course...someone had to spackle and paint, it's not all that fancy plumbing-framing-drywalling-wiring stuff!) He's also a great sport when it comes to doing things that I want to do, like play basketball, or go shopping. He is terrific at making up his mind about something and doing it -- he doesn't just talk about it, he does it. And he helps people, and has a wonderful, strong testimony. And he's so adventurous, I love that! Like for our first Christmas married we bought super cheap tix to Europe (super cheap because it's freezing there in Dec) and drove around for 10 days. We only spent 3 nights in hotels/hostels (did I mention how extremely frugal he is?), all the others bundled up sleeping in the VW Golf we rented. Even the night that I had a horrible fever. That was a very long night, but hey, what an adventure! We only showered the 3 times and changed clothes maybe 4 times. Fun stuff. And, he is suuuuuch a good cook! Seriously. Yummmm...curry...

So, here's to your first 30 years, Z, and to the eternities I have to celebrate with you. Wow. In another lifetime, you will be 60. Now that's old. (Unless you who are reading this happen to be 60ish, then, haha, joking! ;) Happy birthday, Zachariah, I love you!!