Things We Like About Mark

The world would be a better place if everyone got a list like this for their birthday. [And if everyone knew the Mark that Krista does.]

Things We Like About Mark

by Krista and Bryce

edited by Janel [with brackets], on the assumption that not everyone can handle reading the word "pannus" in a blog

1. He’s nice.
2. He doesn’t hit other cars too often.
3. He likes to “love you tender.”
4. He has big calves.
5. He does a mean shoulder roll. [He credits Danielle for this move.]
6. The nutcracker, Mark, a bathrobe. [If you don’t know, don’t ask. It was a late night.]
7. There’s usually whole milk in his fridge. [Uh, Bryce, I think that’s for the 1-year-old, not the 100-pound-birthday boy…Maybe the 100-pounder should drink the whole milk.]
8. He reads blogs.
9. He has purple eyelids [as does his posterity…mostly daughter #2, who looks a lot like his mom].
10. He taught Eliza to say “adios” [and other things in Spanish].
11. He listens to late night woes from in-laws [and his spouse].
12. Two words: big nicey [which is somehow different from #1, I guess].
13. White and delightsome [in the words of my mom for the times she exchanged her usual pants for shorts].
14. He puts up with Wilson cat jokes and presents. [It’s true. As proof I offer the fact that Becca and Jordan gave him a Christmas cat potholder. And I thought those were only available on the black market…I mean Big Lots.]
15. [Okay, I won't deprive you of Krista's warped sense of humor:] He doesn't have a pannus. [Look it up if you want, but don't say I didn't warn you.]

Happy birthday, Mark.