02Dec
Happy Birthday to YOU, Happy Birthday to YOU, Haaaappppppyyyyy  Biiiiirrrtthhhday tooooo  KATIE, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!
Today is Katie’s birthday! In honor of her birthday, I figured to would tell you a few things about her.
1 – Katie is an amazing person and I love her.
2 – Katie loves receiving gifts. Â (I love giving her gifts, but I love to mess with her and make her think that I’m a slacker and didn’t buy her anything or that I forgot about it entirely. It makes the gift-giving process much more enjoyable for me. Â And I love messing with her.)
4 – Katie is a GREAT mom. (I knew she would be)
5 – Katie is a horrible driver. One time in high school she was driving her car behind mine and crashed into me at a stop light. Â True Story.
6 – Katie gets really grossed out by the strangest things, like food in the sink drain.
7 – Katie hates coffee.
8 – Katie loves wine.
9 – Katie has ZERO tolerance for alcohol. Â Anyone that knows her can tell you this, she is the only person I know that after a SINGLE glass of wine she has this cute little grin on her face.
10 – Katie loves country music.
11 – Katie also asked me one time, “why are the Beatles such a big deal?”
12 – Katie loves to sing, really loud, but she has an ear piercing voice.
13 – Katie loves Holidays.
14 – Katie is a light sleeper and sometimes makes me wake up in the middle of the night to search the house for burglars, or squirrels, or the bogeyman.
15 – Katie won the National Spirit of Women Award when she was high school. Â She went to the capital and met Maya Angelou and got a personalized congratulations video from the first lady Hilary Clinton.
16 – Katie loves charity so much that she jumped in to the long island sound in January for the Penguin Plunge a few years ago.
17 – Katie cracks herself up.
18 – Katie has used cue-tips EVERYDAY of her life until her doctor told her last week that the pain in her ear was probably caused by that.
19 – Katie lives by Emily Post’s rules of Etiquette. Â Trust me, if she ever meets the Queen of England she will know how to act.
20 – Katie is the most loving, caring, thoughtful person I have ever met. Â I love her more everyday and I’m so happy that I get to spend my life with her. Â We have come a LONG way from the days when we could share a locker and make-out in the back of cars. Â This is only the beginning, and I can wait to see what happens next. Â I love waking up next to you, I love your smile, I love that beautiful baby boy that you brought into this world, but most of all I love to call you mine.
Happy Birthday Pookey. Â I can’t wait for Sushi Palace. Â :)
-Chris
1) Lori @ I Can Grow People: Have a great dinner at Sushi Palace, you two! (12.02.2009 09:33am)
2) Julia: Happy Birthday KATIE~ Thank you so much for your wit and inspiration and for sharing everything that goes along with that with us! Hope you have a great one! (12.02.2009 09:51am)
3) Sue V.: I hope you have a wonderful birthday, but with a husband like that how could you not. Thank you for providing that bit of joy to my day each morning. Happy Birthday! (12.02.2009 09:59am)
4) kay: happy birthday katie! and enjoy the sushi and the dessert, whatever that may be! (12.02.2009 10:21am)
5) Julie: Happy Birthday Katie! Great Post Chris. julie (12.02.2009 10:24am)
6) Shannon: Happy Birthday! I hope you have a great day, and enjoy your sushi! (12.02.2009 10:24am)
7) Mindee@ourfrontdoor: Happy Birthday to a fellow Q-Tip addict. Hope you have a wonderful day. Mmmmmm . . . sushi. And Chris? I'm sure she only hit you because she was concentrating on your rear view mirror, trying to catch a glimpse of her beloved's face. And now you mock her for it. On her birthday. (12.02.2009 10:36am)
8) Diana: Have a wonderful birthday Katie! You deserve it! (12.02.2009 10:41am)
9) Katie: Thanks, Mindee. That is EXACTLY what happened. It had absolutely nothing to do with talking on my cell phone while driving... (12.02.2009 10:50am)
10) Dad: Happy Birthday Kitten, I love you bunches!!!! Dad (12.02.2009 10:52am)
11) Suzanne: Happy Birthday! Hope you have a great day! (12.02.2009 10:53am)
12) Sarah H.: This is so cute!! Thanks for posting Chris :) Have a great night out! (12.02.2009 10:53am)
13) Laura: Awwww how sweet!!! :) Have a great night out, you guys! Happy birthday Katie! :) (12.02.2009 10:59am)
14) Sarah @ BecomingSarah.com: So sweet =) Happy birthday!!!!!!!!!! (12.02.2009 11:30am)
15) Taryn: What a presh! Happy Birthday!! (12.02.2009 11:42am)
16) Tressa: HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATIE!! I so wished I knew it was your birthday, I would have mailed a gift. Who doesn't like gifts on their birthday!? I'm going to put something in the mail even though it's late, just because your my special blog friend! ;-) Great post Chris! Made me tear up feeling the love that you have for your Katie! (12.02.2009 11:48am)
17) Camille: Kyle won't take me to sushi palace EVEN on my birthday, so consider yourself lucky! : ) Happy birthday, friend that I hope I'll meet someday! (12.02.2009 12:27pm)
18) Ashley: Such a SWEET husband!!! I hope you have a WONDERFUL BIRTHDAY!! I am very thankful for you and this blog! Enjoy your sushi! (12.02.2009 12:36pm)
19) Abigail: What a sweet husband you are Chris! Happy birthday Katie! and I am with you on the q-tip usage!! I don't believe your dr. that it's what has caused your ear pain! I think ears are happiest when they are dry and wax free! (12.02.2009 12:54pm)
20) Sarah C. H.: Happy Birthday Katie! (12.02.2009 01:58pm)
21) Jenn C.: Happy Birthday Katie!!! (12.02.2009 02:21pm)
22) Sara: Cutest post ever!! Happy birthday Katie!! (12.02.2009 02:26pm)
23) Mindee@ourfrontdoor: Nope, nothing at all. I knew it. (12.02.2009 02:35pm)
24) Ashley: Just found your blog and I love it! I'll be back regularly. Have a wonderful birthday! (12.02.2009 02:49pm)
25) Sarah Barker: Happy Birthday Katie!!! Love the post, so sweet. Love, Sarah (12.02.2009 03:48pm)
26) Nona: You have a very nice hubby! Happy Birthday Katie!! (12.02.2009 05:05pm)
27) KP: Happy birthday from Minnesota! (12.02.2009 05:51pm)
28) Allison: Happy birthday!!!!!!!!! (12.02.2009 05:53pm)
29) Ella: Birthday Greetings from Australia - have a great nite out!! (12.02.2009 06:25pm)
30) Allison P.: Sweetest birthday post ever! Happy Birthday, Katie! (12.02.2009 06:53pm)
31) Allyson: what a wonderful post :) happy birthday! (12.02.2009 07:30pm)
32) Heather: ADORABLE!!! I hope you have a great birthday Katie! (12.02.2009 08:54pm)
33) Beanie's Nana: Happy Birthday, Kitten. I remember when you once hit a car in a parking lot and got so nervous after you backed up that you hit the poor guy AGAIN! After the policeman made his report he asked you to wait until he was out of the parking lot before you backed up. Hilarious now, expensive insurance back then!!!! Love, Mom (12.02.2009 09:06pm)
34) Zoe: Awww, so sweet. Happy birthday, Katie! Hope you have a lovely day! (12.02.2009 09:17pm)
35) Ginny: Happy Birthday, Kate. I'm so lucky to have you for a sister and a best friend. :) (12.02.2009 09:29pm)
36) Jayme: Happy Birthday Katie!!! (12.02.2009 10:52pm)
37) Angela: Happy Birthday Katie! Hope you have an awesome day! Love, Angela (12.02.2009 10:54pm)
38) Rosemary: Happy, Happy Birthday Katie!!!! I hope you had a wonderful day and enjoyed your dinner. Great post from a very loving husband. I look forward to hearing all about it tomorrow. (12.02.2009 11:26pm)
39) Sandy: Just made it...HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!! (12.02.2009 11:44pm)
40) Katie: Happy Birthday from one Katie to another! You are blessed... hope your day was wonderful! (12.03.2009 01:05am)
41) Shannon: Happy Birthday and what a sweet husband you have! And wow - that's pretty awesome to win such a high award like that! (12.03.2009 07:05am)
42) Kelly H: Happy Birthday Katie! (12.03.2009 09:28am)
43) Katy: Happy birthday! (12.03.2009 09:38am)
44) Joanie: Hope you had a wonderful birthday Katie! (12.03.2009 10:47am)
45) Deb: I hope you had a great bday! Your first bday you got to celebrate with the bean too! (12.03.2009 01:17pm)
46) holly your biggest fan, but not fattest.: i always knew we had something in common... hooray for Sagittarius'. if only we could celebrate our birthdays together... i mean, it may not be YOUR ideal gift, but it would seriously be one for me! happy birthday... i am glad you were born. (12.03.2009 04:20pm)
47) Suzanne: Happy Birthday Katie. I really get a hoot out of your blog. I wouldn't miss a day. (12.03.2009 06:44pm)
48) Jessica: Happy Birthday!! Hope you have (had? I have no idea what your bedtime is...) a wonderful day!! (12.03.2009 07:00pm)
49) Megan: Happy Birthday Katie!! (12.03.2009 07:18pm)
50) Meghan: It's belated, but Happy Birthday! I hope you had a great day and that the year ahead is fantastic! (12.03.2009 08:47pm)