Paul's Birthday

I am now two months behind so here goes.  Hopefully I can get caught up today.  

A Happy 31 to the love of my life.  I was so grateful that we got to celebrate on a Saturday this year.  It was a pretty great day.  We went to the temple in the morning as a family and switched off taking care of Audrey so that we could do initiatories.  

After that we went out for lunch at one of our favorite Italian places where we decided to never order something new because we were disappointed that it wasn't as good as what we'd ordered before.  Why does that always happen?

After lunch we came home and took Audrey swimming the rest of the day.  Later that evening we invited James and Jenny over for cake and presents.  The cake was one of my best ones.  All Paul ever wants is chocolate so I have to get creative with the insides or I start to feel bad that it's the same every time.  It was so good!

Paul has a thing for really bright flash lights.  I think it's an engineer thing, or a Kendall thing. I can't ever decide considering most of the Kendall's think like engineers.  We will always be prepared for the next blackout!  His one request this birthday was a head lamp so that he could work on the cars at night in the garage.  I researched and found the best one I could find.  I think Paul was happy that Dean and James were just as excited about it as he was.   Paul's usually the researcher so I was pretty proud of myself for knowing more about flash lights than I really ever cared to. 

On this special day I had to list a few reasons why I'm so grateful that Paul is my other half:

Nothing is more important to him than his family.  He will drop anything for us and he's not afraid to tell people where his priorities are.  

He works so hard to provide a living for us and he never complains even though I know that work is so hard for him right now.  

He genuinely cares about other people and will go out of his way to help them.  

He's the best Dad.  He comes home after a long day at work and he puts everything he has left into playing, reading endless stories, hide and go seek, princess tea parties, and chasing.  

I love him more and more everyday!

Happy Birthday Love!