Happy Birthday!

So much has happened! I can never seem to stay caught up on all the things that Rod's
intense motivation and determination can allow us to accomplish. So I made a giant post to celebrate what we have done and RODS BIRTHDAY!

Rod turned 25 September 17th!
So here are 25 things to celebrate him.

1. He loves me enough to go all the way to Vegas to pick us up a fridge! He is the master craiglist watcher.

2. He is the sexiest rock climber alive...
3. He forgives me when I chicken out...even if I have done the climb before...sad I know.

4. He let's me read and inspired me to read his favorite fiction...The Work and the Glory

5. He lost some of his equipment so happy birthday! Quick-draws and runners for you my dear. Did I mention that he lost them because we went together and I distracted him...we left without getting them back...and when we went this last time we almost forgot them again due to a craving for frozen yogurt :) Thanks Angel for searching in the dark with him.

6. He builds me things....like a pantry in our laundry room :)

6. He builds cupboards too. He is amazingly talented!

7. He never leaves anything unfinished...see where the hole used to be??? Nope you don't.
8. He is a wonderful teacher and he teaches me anything and everything he knows. Like how to caulk and paint this here cabinet...

9. He loves pizza, so I learned to make crust and breadsticks!
10. He can install doors!
11. He sees and creates beauty. Look at those doors!

12. He loves fruit trees and he finds amazing deals, $10 a tree: 2 peach 2 nectarine 2 apple and a pomegranate bush...later we even got a pear! The pear tree took a turn for the worst but we think it will make it. We also lost an apple tree to a wind storm :(

13. He makes sacrifices...his beloved dirt bike he traded for our fridge and...

14. a basketball hoop! Because he loves basketball!
15. He gets everything done quickly and does a quality job! He dug this hole in 1 day. And by one day, I mean in about an hour before we had to go to work.

16. So he can plant his favorite part of his birthday...a SWEET in-ground basketball hoop.17. He never gives up
18. He believes strongly in our little family
19. He loves the gospel
20. Rod loves me as much as I love him
21. Rod is the best best friend you could ask for
22. He is intelligent, logical, yet creative and intuitive
23. He refuses to let life pass by and makes things work even when it is hard
24. He is grateful-he doesn't take anything we have for granted
25. Rod Peterson is the love of my life!

I have been whining around about all the work we have to get done on the house. Now that things are getting closer to done I am surprised that it does feel good. Rod and I were talking and he said "I am excited because now our lives can really start."
I am ready to put up posts of Rod painting...cause that is when the fun really begins!!

Surprise, surprise

Rod is pretty hilarious. Monday he went on and on about cleaning up the house from all of the projects because we could not find ANYTHING through all the mess. It got so bad the clutter was filling our thoughts. So much so, that Rod and I searched for his keys for 30 minutes on Saturday and found them in his pocket...of the pants he was wearing...Whoops.

So resolved to get the house spic-and-span so we could isolate the debris of any upcoming projects I came home from work on Monday...and this is what I found.

Rod ripped down a wall in our master bathroom. Just tore it down. Wait, wait, wait...isn't that more of a mess? Yes, yes it is.
So we have started another project and I really don't want to clean anything up now.

Rod does everything to code! Hahahha...well it worked anyway.

Hatchet, hammer, pliers, broom...the bathroom will be beautiful, just don't get in his way!

It is coming along, and it does feel a whole lot bigger, without that blasted wall.