why I like being married to Nathan

-He is my best friend in the entire world. Seriously, what is better than hanging out all day with your best friend? Falling asleep to them, waking up to them, making dinner with them, laying around doing nothing with them. It's the bomb.

-He laughs at everything I say.

-He watches really stupid movies and TV shows with me, even though I know he doesn't like them. *coughonetreehillcough*

-He does the dishes all the time.

-He is a "do it" kind of man. Where I am more of a "let's see how long I can procrastinate this" kind of woman. When there is something that needs to be done, he does it.

-His testimony and faith in the Gospel is so strong and inspiring. He's definitely my rock.

-When I am whiney he humors me.

-He tells me I look beautiful every single morning.

-He scratches my back as I fall asleep each night.

-He let's me listen to music he hates.

-He tackles work and school full time so that when the time comes, I won't need to work and send our babies to day care.

-He acts like a little kid with me.

-He is so willing to serve both me and others. He always puts people before himself. Always. He is the most selfless person I know.

-When he asks how my day was, he genuinely wants to know everything about my day.

-Even though there were a handful of girls basically throwing themselves at him, he chose me.

-He holds my hand in his sleep.

-He is so freaking handsome. 

-Sometimes when I take a weekend nap, I wake up to a completely clean apartment.

-He's got baby fever just like me.

-He takes his priesthood duties very seriously and would never do anything to compromise that.

-His number one goal in life is to love and take care of his family. It's pretty dang cute when he talks about it.

-He doesn't get all super smelly and sweaty when he works out.

-He's the funniest guy I know. He can always make me laugh. Literally always. Even if I give him a weird look and pretend not to laugh, I am laughing inside.

-He likes to take a billion pictures and videos just like me. Our lives are going to be ridiculously documented. 

-He texts me funny movie quotes during the day.

-He likes when I sing. At least he pretends that he does.

-He sacrificed everything to serve a mission, and he wrote me faithfully even when he was busy.

-He waited for me long before I ever waited for him. He loved me patiently as I ran around Provo dating losers pretending I didn't want to be with Nathan. Good thing he is so patient.

-His love is pure and selfless.

-He can fix anything. Lap tops. Cars. A broken VHS. Shower heads. Shelfs. The air conditioning. He can build anything too!

-We share common goals and dreams and it's fun to work towards them together. 

-He's the nicest guy in the world. Everyone loves him!

-He always smells really good.

-He supports me in everything I do.

-When I casually mention something I want, he remembers it, and he usually gets it for me.

-He hates to argue and is really good at apologizing.

-He makes the best freaking pancakes in the entire world. I literally cannot understand how they are so fluffy.

-He lets me rationalize my diet coke addiction.

-He never judges me or tells me how I should live. He leads by example and inspires me to be better.

-He is creative and in my humble opinion, a musical genius. He writes piano arrangements that make me cry.

-He promised me that one day, he will buy me my own horse.

-He will sit and listen while I go on forever about which of my nail polishes are summer, fall, winter, or spring colors and he never once asks me to shut up.

-He wants to make it to California to live one day. 

-He lets me vent without trying to fix all my problems. 

-When I was working, he woke up early so he could make me a lunch every day.
-He's always calm and rationale which helps a lot because I am almost never calm and rationale. 

I realize that we have only been married 2 months and everyone and their mom likes to give me super depressing marriage advice about how it won't always be this way and I get that. But Nathan and I have been "married" for pretty much four years and we've been through quite a bit. (Seriously, don't lump us in with the typical, quick, "Utah" marriage. Nathan will get mad at you. And it's scary). I know time and money and babies will change a lot, of course. But it won't change the fact that promising eternity to my best friend two months ago was the best decision I have ever made. For better or worse.