Best things in life are free

The best things in life are free and you can't buy them!  Today I'm thankful for my precious boyfriend.

• He tells me he loves me every day
• He always puts my needs above his, because he is selfless
• He always wants hugs and back rubs, and tells me he could hug me forever and ever
• He tells me I'm beautiful every day
• He always opens the car door for me
• He cleans my house even if I'm not home
• He thinks of all these precious things to do for me without me asking
• He does cute things like gets me a bouquet of roses and sets it in a vase after cleaning my entire house
• He renovated my house with me like it's his own
• He's building me a patio
• He made my entire kitchen, installed cabinets, appliances
• He brought home a farm door and told me that he asked to keep it so he can re-purpose it and make me a desk.
• He helps to cook food
• He washes dishes
• He helps me with anything heavy
• He is a man of good character with a really sharp sense of right and wrong
• He is godly and goes to God in prayer and goes to the Bible for wisdom
• He is a good, loyal friend to the few friends that he has
• He massages my feet and my arches when they hurt
• When I have PMS pity fits, he melts them with a sweet kiss on my forehead
• He's so kind to me even when I don't deserve it, which is the sweetest part of it all
• He treats me like a queen and I don't know where he gets all these ideas of how to be the most precious boyfriend.  I always tell him he came trained.
• He gets really geeked out about Lord of the Rings/Star Wars/The Hobbit
• I don't have to feel like I'm speaking to a zombie when he's thinking about sports.  He isn't sports obsessed.
• He goes to my house when I'm not there and makes my bed for me!! On soo many occasions.  
• He's working 10 hour days overnight this week in construction.  He didn't want to be on unemployment so he took a temporary hourly job doing something unrelated.  God doesn't make any mistakes, and surely he will use everything.
• He pursued me even when I wouldn't date him. 
• He always sends me flowers. 
• One day after I got home from class, he had been waiting for me at my house.  He asked if I was hungry and after I said I was, he pulled out two bowls of salad for us, and he cut out the shape of a star out of an apple slice and had it sitting in the middle of my salad.  
• One time I came home from work and he was at my house painstakingly making me ravioli from scratch.  It took him three and a half hours.  He shaped all the ridges with a fork too.
• I honestly don't know how I got so lucky.  He didn't fit any of my traits on my dumb "boyfriend list." So go ahead, make your lists, but your real man will not fit that list, and that's a good thing.  Maybe it's because my dad said he has been praying every day for my spouse to be a godly Christian man since the day I was born.  It's too bad my dad won't warm up to him, even though the guy he's asked God for has already been in my life for years.   Sometimes families can be really awkward, and I have one high up on the awkward list.  I think with each generation of a Christian home, you build a stronger family tree with the kinks worked out every generation.  I am really hopeful for the kind of relationship Ben and I can share with our children!
• I love him more and more and we've been together for over 5 years
• Even if my parents won't be excited for my marriage, we will be, and that's all that matters.

The cover of a card he got me one Valentine's day