34 Things about Lou!

Today was Lou's birthday! I am so blessed to have Lou in my life.  Its hard to believe we have celebrated 13 of his birthdays together! That's a teenagers life worth! This year has made me appreciate Lou so much more than I ever had and I feel like I've always felt pretty grateful for Lou.

Lou came home late Friday night and had to leave again for Boise around 5:30 this evening.  It was a short visit but we will take whatever we can get of Lou. The kids just love when he is home, they hardly even pay attention to me, but I am fine with that.

We celebrated Lou's birthday by going to the Hogle Zoo as a family. We realized last week that the kids hadn't been to the Zoo since Joshy was one!  (besides a trip to Zoo Lights but that's a little different even then I think Josh was only 3 or 4)

I love doing things together as our cute little family of four.  Les Schwab tires has discount tickets for the zoo, so the kids were able to get in free with our ticket purchase. We saved $20, score!

We had a blast at the zoo together. I think my favorite exhibit was Rocky Shores, it was all the bears. Usually the elephants are my favorite but the bears won out this visit. I especially loved watching the grizzly bears swim in the water.

The kids were a lot of fun and they did not complain about the heat even once!  They don't have the train running but they do have a carousel. 

Of course we had to drink out of the Lion's water fountain. (That is in fact the only lion we saw, I guess with the zoo building the new African Safari they don't have lions right now)

I am glad we did something different (for us) for Lou's birthday and something he loves, Lou loves animals very much.

Lou is my very favorite person. I am so glad he was born and made his way into my life.

34 things about Louis:

1. Lou is kind, he has never insulted me ever.
2. Lou is smart- he knows so much about everything.
3. Lou never thought he'd live in Utah past college but now considers Provo his home.  (at least for 2 more weeks)
4. Lou is athletic, he can do any sport activity that he tries to do, he has so much natural talent.
5. Lou loves cheez- its- anytime I buy them from the store he gets super super excited.
6. Lou's favorite calling was as stake auditor.
7. Lou only watches sports on TV if I am watching them- in fact Lou doesn't really watch much TV at all, we do love Netflix though.
8. Lou lets me control the remote- he is usually busy doing something else when we watch TV/Netflix
9. Lou is the 2nd of 5 children but was the first child married in his family.
10. Lou is an eagle scout
11. Lou used to own a golden pheasant
12. Lou loves FJs and has owned two in his life.
13. Lou likes salty treats better than sweet treats
14. Lou's favorite Jazz player ever was AK47.
15. Lou loves Star Wars- Empire Strikes Back is his favorite episode (I think that or Return of the Jedi)
16. Lou can play the guitar and piano a little bit
17. Lou never eats eggs around me cause he's nice like that
18. Lou wants to own his own sailboat someday.
19. Lou's favorite hot cereal is grits.
20. Lou caught a magpie and kept it in his basement keeping it hidden from his parents for awhile.
21. Lou doesn't really have a favorite food but he loves seafood, thai food and mexican and well a good bacon cheeseburger.
22. Lou loves to read and his always reading on his phone.
23. Lou is a very good friend. He has good friends who would do anything for him.
24. Lou has saved all the "honeypots" (notes you'd write people in the ward and the activity committee would pass them out during ward prayer)  I wrote him when we were single.
25. Lou's favorite soda is Mountain Dew but is leaning more towards Coke Zero now.
26. Lou always always assumes the best in people
27. Lou can quote Star War lines (like "Look sir, droids") with his cousin Zac or his friend Kenny for hours. With those guys its pretty much just part of their conversations.
28. Lou is super artistic, he can draw, sew, do wood working etc.
29. Lou loves his children.
30. Lou was on a swim team when he was a child and a cross country team for a year or so.
31. Lou is the most easy-going person I've ever met- he has helped me be less tense. Lou is able to take on other peoples stresses and help them find peace.
32. Lou had a black lab named Nellie.
33. Lou loves video games but hasn't had much time for them the last three years or so.
34. Lou is the best friend and best husband for me.