Thursday, April 24, 2008

26 things you might not know about Tom...

1. His favorite color is green
2. He hates cucumbers and green beans and avocados
3. He plays guitar to me at night, he even brought his guitar to the hotel on our wedding night and played for me
4. He can draw...really well, actually
5. In high school he won a national math contest
6. He never eats breakfast and when he makes eggs he puts onions and garlic in them.
7. Everything he eats he wants to put hot sauce on. His famous line is "mmm, you know what this needs? (this is where I roll my eyes) Hot sauce!"
8. He hates to shop, I buy all his clothes
9. He seems to be a natural at every sport he tries...Ping pong, softball, trail running, snowboarding, raquetball, golf, cycling, hockey, ect...
10. He actually owns a pair of ping-pong shoes
11. He is a barber, on his mission he found himself doing this quite a lot.
12. He speaks fluent Norweigan, he served a 2 year mission in Norway, he learned and spoke the language fluently within 4 months!
13. He played his guitar on the street to the people in Norway to get them to listen to his message..it worked! (but, mostley on the teenage girls jk:)
14. He grew up in the middle of 6 brothers
15. He is a hard core adrenaline junkie, I have to threaten him with divorce not to cliff jump, sky dive, or ride a motorcycle. It's a miracle he survived until he met me...
16. His unfullfilled dream: to be a air force pilot, you know like top gun. He has better than average eyesight and very fast reflexes so he would have been awesome at it
17. He dreams of taking flying lessons and getting scuba certified
18. He plans to write a book someday about Norweigan vikings
19. He is an awesome father, he bought a tandem bicycle to go on long bike rides with his boys
20. When we met he lived in a shack on the beach, washed windows and mostly snowboarded all the time. He didn't even have a car. We got engaged one week later and married within a month. 21. He loves pickles, buys gallon size jars of 'em
22. He teaches guitar lessons to kids in our neighborhood
23. He is madly in love with me and lets me know constantly
24. He is scared of spiders and cockroaches..I have to kill them myself
25. He knits! Yes, he knits beautiful sweaters and hats
26. He is married to a woman who loves him dearly

1 comment:

Gallant Family said...

What a great idea. I knew some of those things, but others were a total surprise. I'll have to see how much of it Pete knows. Thanks for sharing. Now it's time to do one about you...;)