28 Memories for my Hubby's 28th!

In honor of Jacob's 28th birthday tomorrow, I've written out 28 memories!

1. I'll always remember the first time that we talked on the phone to each other. I was so nervous all day long knowing that you were going to call. I coudn't even eat lunch that day. Little did I know, you were equally as nervous. Yet, we ended up spending over 2 hours talking to each other that night and you started to win me over.

2. Meeting you in person. Another day where I was a ball of nerves. I remember nervously watching you pull up to my apartment. I wasn't sure if I had totally lost my mind. Who invites a stranger to visit her!? As it turns out, it's was TOTALLY worth it! We were so nervous that night that neither of us could finish our supper...and now after knowing you awhile, you must've been nervous. You love to eat!

3. Sharing our first kiss during the museum scene in "Ferris Beuller's Day Off"

4. Going to Villa Grove with you for the first time. I was so scared your parent's wouldn't like me. I was terrified to go in the house! Thankfully they took me right in! Then getting you to take me up to Ag Days. We got a funnel cake to share and then road the Scrambler!

5. You getting me to dance with you at Abby and Anthony's wedding. I never danced before that, and I couldn't believe I actually agreed to it! (Secretly, I just wanted to be close to you!) We danced to "Take My Breath Away"

6. Getting engaged at Olive Garden. You were acting to weird that night, so I pretty much knew you had to be proposing. Every time you'd reach into your pocket I would think, "This is it!"...and then you would pull out a Kleenex! But then you popped the question and I couldn't wait until I could become Rachel Elam.

7. Our first Christmas, we drove to Villa Grove together in an ice storm. That was a pretty scary ride!


8. Searching for our first house. We found it in one day! I remember I was dead set on a different house and you kept telling me not to get my hopes up. Then it turned out that I didn't really like that house at all. You still say that you knew this was going to be our house from the moment I saw the front porch!

9. Getting to be with you on the day we closed on the house...my 25th birthday! I came to school with you that day. Then we closed on our house and came here to check it out again once we got the keys! Then you took me to Round Table for my birthday dinner. That was a great day!

10. Moving day! A bit of an emotional day for me (okay...when isn't there a day when I'm emotional?). Sad to be leaving Iowa, yet so excited for our  new adventure in life! Boy were we on each other's nerves that day. We had a giant fight in the car as we were heading to Taylorville from your apartment. Thankfully it cleared the air and made the rest of the day go much better!

11. Our wedding day. The day that seems like it would never came, really did come! I remember the look on your face when you saw me for the first time that day. I was so excited to get to spend the rest of my life with the man that I love. That day was absolutely perfect (minus the glass candle holder that blew up before the ceremony! Haha!).

12. Eating Tato Skins from the vending machine on our wedding night because we were so hungry! It had been hours since we ate and then we realized we didn't even get any of our cake, except for the bite we fed each other!

13. Our Honeymoon in St. Louis. It was the perfect choice and I was glad you convinced me to go there. It was so relaxing, and fun just getting to spend time with each other without any other care in the world. Lots of fun memories made...like: going to the top of the Arch, going to 6 Flags,  and going to the Cardinals game! My first baseball game and you finally got me to cave into getting tickets for the Cardinals Club, which really was an awesome experience.

14. How you make up silly songs about everything! They always make me laugh.

15. Going to the fireworks the first year we were married. I insisted that we go early because I was used to people in Cedar Rapids gathering 5 hours before they started to get a prime spot! We got there 2 hours early and we the only ones in the spot for over an hour. Oops! Then we had to listen to a girl talk on her phone through half the fireworks! At least they were pretty!

16. How you can calm me down after I freak out about really silly things...like the night I added Shake and Bake to the rice instead of the flavor packet! I have a lot of silly freak outs, but you always make it better.

17. How we text each other even when we're in the same room. You started doing it once and for some reason we still do it. I love being dorks together.

18. I remember when you pointed out to me that I skipped #18 (and #21) about 2 minutes ago!

19. The day of the fuel pump incident. I remember driving to church that morning and you said the car wasn't accelerating. Then we realized it was dying and assumed we ran out of gas. For some reason this struck us as hilarious...until Sandy came with gas and it turned out that wasn't the problem. It was rainy and cold. Neither one of us had our finer moments that day, but in the end it taught us both how to handle a situation better and it didn't seem like such a crisis the next time the car died!

20. I love when you pull out the card table and we play board games together.

21. Belting out, "Cherry Christmas" by Neil Diamond together, because that song is basically amazing.

22. Putting up our Christmas tree the first year. We had to go buy one. I picked the tree and you picked the topper. We decided to make it a tradition that you will always put the topper on after the rest of the tree has been decorated!

23. Going to Illinois games with you. I didn't see myself having fun at a game with a team that I didn't care about nearly as much as my beloved Hawkeyes, but I did! You bought me my first Illini t-shirt (pink, because I didn't want to feel like a traitor and wear orange!). I love the atmosphere and cheering at the top of my lungs. But...you'll never get me to sing, "Hail to the Orange, Hail to the Blue..."! :)

24. Taking you to "The Holy Land"...aka (Historic) Kinnick Stadium. Getting to share with you my team's traditions. Riding the Hawkeye Express. Doing the Burrito Lift (haha!) and letting you hear my crazy side by screaming at the stop of my lungs things like, "I LOVE YOU MCNUTT!" Somehow you still love me and claim me as your wife!

25. Going to Cardinals games together. You've taught me SO much about baseball and I love getting to watch games with you. I love walking into Busch Stadium with you ( just picturing it now makes me excited to go to a game this year!) Maybe Pujol's will hit me my Grand Slam this year! Plus I'm your good luck charm. 5 games and I've never seen a loss.

26. Watching fun TV shows together. You've successfully gotten me to fall in love with LOST and House. And I even got you to watch a Reality show with me...I just knew you'd love Gordon Ramsay!

27. Totally random,but hilarious. Remember the time we went to Veracruz and you ordered a side of refried beans. Then when they brought it out an entire entree plate was FILLED with them. Most epic plate of refried beans EVER.

28. I love how you can make me just erupt into laughter sometimes. The moments were we just lay there laughing about how silly be are. Those are the moments I love the very most.

I love getting to make memories with you and look forward to making so many more as we grow old and senile together. (10 bucks says my memory goes way before yours).

I love you so much! Happy Birthday!