HaPpY BeLaTeD BiRtHdAy

so . . .happy belated birthday to that wonderful husband of mine.
this year he turned the BIG 38 so here are 38 wonderful things about my guy.

1. born: Arthur Ray Ruggles, Jr. but most people just call him ART

2. he is the oldest in his family with 2 younger sisters, angie and allison

3. he has the most beautiful blue eyes i have ever seen. some days they are so bright.
4. art has never acted his age, in fact when i met him i was really surprised that he was 9 years older than me. . . lol
5. art and i got married on june 19, 1997 in the dallas texas temple

6. art is a thoughtful guy
7. a great father, a trait i know he got from his dad

8. excellent traffic driver, i hate traffic and would rather drive myself. but if i had to pick someone to get me there it would be art.
9. he likes rollercoasters, he once stumped his big toe roding the ratteler with mackenzi at fiesta texas
10. he likes crawfish boils
11. likes hambugers at chris madrid's almost as much as me
12. he likes to sleep late on sunday mornings
13. passes along funny jokes
14. loves play with the kiddos
15. loves to wash his new truck in the front yard.
16. he's a giver
17. somehow, for whatever reason babies and small children love him.
18. it cracks me up to think that when he was in high school he wore a white tux to prom.
19. he served a mission for our church
20. while on his mission members often tried to feed him tunafish and macaroni and cheese (mixed together)
21. if you need directions . . .he's the one you call
22. he is an EMT- T
23. he is always polite to his grandmother
24. he likes to take rode trips
25. he often works two jobs to help the family
26. he likes helping his dad around the house
27. he doesn't usally like to borrow things, he has bad luck with other peoples stuff
28. not long after we got married and went to his 10 year high school reunion, last october we went to mine
29. when art was younger his hair was straight and very blonde, now it is curly and brown.
30. he recently lost over 70 pounds on the south beach diet

31. baileigh loves him because he loves her
32. caleb says he is very nice to them
33. he is the priesthood holder in our home.
34. we will be married for 10 years this june
35. he wants to do what is right for our family
36. he's like a big old teddy bear, you just want to hug him
37. he always tries to get to all of the school activities.
38. he lets me take time out for myself.


thank you art for all you do for us, i love you very much and i hope you had a very happy birthday !


jess :-P