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- He got up with Afton during the night and let me sleep in during the morning.
- He spent the whole day with me.
- Played games with Steels and laughed our heads off.
- Told me I'm beautiful/"hot" more than once.
- Helped me clean up before bed.
- Took care of Afton a lot so I could rest and get rid of a migraine.

Just a Few Cute Texts.

Sometimes Brad says really cute things and make me smile:

Cute! Look at you go baby! Those look great. You are so wonderful, and i love seeing you be excited about being a mommy.  You're going to be the best.

You're adorable sweetheart. I love you so much. I really do appreciate everything you do for us. And we are totally gonna have the loan paid off in time. Look at us go! It's you really, I didn't have anything to do with it.

Only because I have you to show me how to be the best parent there is.

There are plenty more. Just like to remind myself how sweet my man is when he doesn't even try.

Just Grateful.

I went to a dear friend's funeral today and as heartbreaking as it always is to lose a loved one, sometimes it gives you the opportunity to reflect on the blessings in your own life and realize how much you really have. She and her husband had a wonderful, sweet, and very passionate love story, and I never want to take my sweet man for granted again.

I am grateful for a sweetheart who loves me unconditionally. I am grateful that God brought us together and made us perfect for each other. I am grateful that Brad is by my side through everything I am experiencing in this life, the good and the bad. I am grateful that we are both healthy and have good qualities of life. I am grateful he is my best friend and I can tell him anything. I am just grateful he is mine. Forever.

Found Some Goodies - Summer 2014

I found some little notes that I wrote over the summer when I was on bedrest, and I will definitely need these for future reference!

Reasons I'm Grateful for Bradley:

• For being patient with my g's struggle
• All the little gestures:
• getting me my pills
• packing up our stuff at Bear Lake while I napped
• getting me drinks
• playing with my hair
• forehead kisses
• driving me around while I couldn't drive - doctor, groceries, cravings, etc.
• Being friends with my family
• Loving the cabin
• Comforting me for the dumbest little things, but not criticizing me
• Dropping everything when he came in and saw me crying
• Making me feel beautiful

He's basically just wonderful and I'm so grateful he's always been there for me.  I couldn't do the good times or the bad without him!

My Husband: My Life.

I'm so grateful for my sweet spouse.  Not really for anything in specific lately, but just kind of for everything lately.  My Bradley is so good to me.  Every day he comes home from work and tries to be so supportive.  I complain and whine and moan about being pregnant and he is so wonderful and is always there for me.  Regardless of how far I push him and what mean things I say, how unreasonable I am, he just continues to trudge on and be sweet with me and do everything he can to help me.

Brad is my true Prince Charming.  He is wonderful.  He is perfect for me.  He is a long list of things I couldn't ever finish.  I'm just so grateful that he is mine.

My Amazing Man

There are some days I look at my life and I am just overwhelmed with how wonderful it has turned out to be. It is in no way perfect, but in a lot of ways it couldn't get any better. My Bradley is mostly to thank for those days. He has been especially attentive and amazing lately and I don't know what I would do without him.  Just to name a few examples of things I love:

-When he talks to sweet baby girl.
-When he comes up behind me to hold me and baby girl.  Or any time he rubs my tummy and gives me that look of pure bliss and excitement. 
-He is always on top of the garbage... Sounds silly, but it's so nice to have one thing that I never have to worry about, and trust me, I'm great at worry!
-With how crappy I've felt (this whole pregnancy) he has picked up SO MUCH of my slack over the last 4 months. He is ready and eager to help with any household chore. 
-He remains patient with me. I wasn't an easy wife to put up with before Nugget was created, but I'm turning out to be a tyrant of a pregnant woman and he has been so great about staying calm when I'm being a beast. 
-The way he looks at me.  I always read about it in fairy tales or saw it in movies, but Brad truly has a look and smile that he gives only to me and it still makes me melt after over 6 years of being together.
-How much he makes me laugh.  It's usually the dumbest little things, but we can just giggle for huge amounts of time and it does amazing things for my stress level!
-The many back rubs I've gotten lately.  This little chica does not do anything good for my lower back and I'm constantly whining or cringing about it. Thanks heavens Brad is right there to rub it out and try to alleviate some of the pain, most of the time without me even asking!

I could go on and on, but those are just a few of the things that I'm especially grateful for lately.  It would take me days to write all of them! Love you, sweetie.  You are my world and the best future daddy out there!

Thanksgiving Week 2014.

After the most terrifying night of my life and almost losing our sweet baby (yes, everything is ok now) I was put on bedrest for the whole week of Thanksgiving.  (Did I mention he brought me flowers the day after the craziness?  My own prince charming!)  There was so much do to and so many places to be and it made it very difficult for me to keep up good spirits while laying on the couch - especially with so much family around and so many fun things to do.

The thing that made everything ok...the thing that usually makes everything ok...was the constant and outstanding support of my amazing husband!  There was cleaning and cooking to do leading up to Thanksgiving and Brad took care of all of it.  While we were at family festivities he always made sure I had food and beverage whenever I needed it, did extra chores at my parents' house to make up for my lack, and spent time with me when everyone else was around the table socializing and I couldn't participate.  He made the holiday so much more bearable and I literally could not have handled it without him.

Not only that, but after all the cooking and cleaning was done on Thanksgiving, he voluntarily and with a smile on his face pushed me around Temple Square Friday night in my embarrassing wheelchair, and didn't complain once!  We got left several times, separated from the group, I got crabby, and the whole time he just grinned and bore all of it!  I'm positive there is no one as patient as my man.

Then, on Saturday, after a crazy morning of family pictures, Brad and my siblings proceeded to decorate my whole house, including the tree, for Christmas, per my request.  Even though he was exhausted from the crazy week and his really only time off this whole year, he trudged up and down the stairs, carrying boxes, unloading red after green after sparkly decoration, and proceeded to help "deck our halls" AND did it all while letting me watch "White Christmas" from my spot on the couch, for the first time this year (yes, I said first...I'm a little obsessed and he's wonderful about putting up with it playing over and over again in December).

He made it the perfect holiday week.  What could have been an excruciating week filled with worry and more trauma, ended up being a wonderful holiday with my family and zero concern about things getting done.  I love how dependable my Bradley is and it's so nice that I can count on him always.

To top it all off, while I still haven't been feeling 100% this week and trying to get back to normal life while he goes back to work, he's taken the days in between shifts to put up Christmas lights, and clean up the house.  Could he be any more wonderful, and could I be any more ungrateful?  I've been a pretty terrible pregnant partner and he has been a champ through this whole thing, just asking how he can help me while I vent and complain to him every day.

In a nutshell, I'm just so grateful for a man who takes such good care of me, even when I don't deserve it.  He loves me unconditionally and is constantly serving me, and I need to be better about being grateful and acknowledging the many, many things he does on a daily basis.

I love you, honey.  You truly are the best!