Love & Marriage

Are you reading? Are you married? TAG!

1. What is your husband's name? Jonathan Richard

2. How long have you been together? officially, 21 April 1999

3. How long did you date? A little more than three years (sounds long, but subtract 2 for Spain)

4. How old is he? 28

5. Who eats more? Given an equal chance at a given quantity of prepared food, he does; given a house full of ingredients that take more than two steps to prepare, I do.

6. Who said I love you first? I think I did

7. Who is taller? Me, but only by 1/4-1/2"

8. Who sings better? It's a toss-up; I'll claim me, only because I actually sing my voice part and he tends to sing tenor to "help out" even though it's too high for him

9. Who is smarter? This I'm definitely calling this even

10. Whose temper is worse? Mine, and it gets worse as my children learn which buttons to push (whether they do it on purpose or not)

11. Who does the laundry? I do

12. Who does the dishes? Usually me, though he helps every now and again

13. Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? If looking at the bed, Jonathan does, but it changes depending on whether I'm pregnant (need to be closer to the bathroom, adjusted for the slope of the bed when it sags), nursing (need to be closer to the bassinette, adjusted for slope of the bed, position of the baby, and number of mid-night feedings) or lonely because he's studying all night (the whole thing is mine, and all the pillows too)

14. Who pays the bills? I do

15. Who mows the lawn? The cat?

16. Who cooks dinner? Me, because Jonathan and kitchens seem to have magnetic polar differences

17. Who drives when you are together? Jonathan--once I taught him to drive my car (it's a stick-shift) he decided it was his chivalric duty to drive me--and we stick with it because he's a bad passenger

18. Who is more stubborn? Me

19. Who is the first to admit when they are wrong? Usually him, because I'm very bad about holding stupid grudges (see above)

20. Whose parents do you see the most? Mine

21. Who proposed? Jonathan--came up with a whole fairy tale, complete with costumes and supporting cast, and acted it out

22. Who is more sensitive? We're both pretty sensitive, but about different things

23. Who has more friends? Real, close friends, me; people we hang out with, him, I think, but I make a slightly bigger effort to be social

24. Who has more siblings? Even at 6

25. Who wears the pants in the family? Probably me--you know it's a sign when home teaching companions come to you to check your spouse's availability

26. Where did you meet? The floor of the relief society room when we were not quite old enough for nursury

27. What was the first thing you said to your husband? "Ga?"

28. Where was your first date? I think he asked me out (-ish) to the grocery store to buy canned goods for an Institute activity

29. Where was your first kiss? At the playground near his house

30. Where did you get engaged? On a narrow winding road, surrounded by towering pines (100 yards from my parents' driveway)

31. Where were you married? The Houston Texas temple

32. Where was the honeymoon? Galveston Texas, in a 100+ year-old B&B

33. If you could have changed anything about it what would it have been? Not sure--the chaos of a delayed wedding was offset by a smoother wedding (it was worth it in the end, so I guess no)