Thank you

In Kennebunk, Maine, for a day away for our birthdays (2 days apart!)
It's funny how we forget to say "thank you" sometimes. I try REALLY hard, as a general rule of thumb, to be appreciative of everything I have instead of wishing and cooing about the things I don't. It's taken me a little while. (Maybe more like a lot a while...)
Today, I am thanking my incredible boyfriend, Chad.

For making every morning and every night perfect. "I love you" begins and ends every day for me, and, well, I love you for that.

For laughing at my jokes even when they're not funny.

For listening so closely to me that you actually remind me what I've just said.

For putting up with the millions of pictures that I take and just smiling for the camera because you know you won't escape it anyway.

(For letting me frame those pictures and put them all over our house!)

For knowing exactly how I take my coffee.

For knowing my favorite scratch tickets and surprising me with them.

For going grocery shopping with me. I love bickering over what we'll make for dinner.

For showing me the beauty in every situation. (Even the yucky ones.)

For telling me I'm beautiful, even on the days where my hair sticks out 3 feet in every direction and I look like Mufasa.

For drinking diet coke when we go to the movies because you know I won't touch the regular stuff.

For smiling and saying "yes, dear" when I wonder out loud if you can hang up pretty decorations that I buy. It's just because I'll hang them crooked.

For being my best friend.

For supporting me in whatever I attempt to do (and say that I'll attempt to do. Cheering me on as I start YET another scarf is just so sweet, though a little pointless, but you do it anyway.) Cheering me on while I finish my degree and forever spend our nights together job hunting...that means more than you know.

For agreeing to the philisophy, "Love me, love my horse." She's my world, and when you tell me to get my butt to the barn (and offer to help fix fences & take pictures...) it lights up my world.

For not asking me to change.

For being so forgiving. And selfless.

For loving me.


I find myself very, very lucky to have one of the best men out there, and I would not change a thing- thank you, thank you, thank you!

Thankfully (yes, thankfully),
Janelle