It's Christmas Eve, and all the world is at peace ...

... when I think of you.

I know I don't have to worry about this but ...

... even though I know I don't have to worry, part of me is still trying to worry about how this post will be three posts I've done in a row without you doing any, and maybe that will make you feel like you're slacking which I definitely don't want to do.

Obviously it's a super-silly worry since you did SO MANY entries in a row at the end of our list of 350 things we love about us, and even though I did feel like I was slacking, I didn't feel bad about it because you'd told me it was totally okay I was slacking and even that letting me slack was like a present you got to give me and how giving me presents always makes you feel awesome (which it should because you are!), so ... yeah, anyway, it's a silly thing for me to worry about.

Is it okay if I tell myself that worrying about it is sort of like a present from me to you because it shows how much I super-duper care about your feelings? (I hope so, because I'm definitely telling myself that!)

...

Elle. OMG, this is such a goofy-doofy post. But I love you so much I just had to post something tonight and now I feel great about it because I know you enjoy when I get all goofy-doofy and it just makes my heart so full and warm to think about you enjoying things.

You're the best most wonderful woman a girl could ever ask if they should get married to each other, and I am so lucky we did and that we're going to!

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!

(I have such a beautiful fiancée!)

I Love You!!!

I'm so lazy lately! But I figured I better take a second just now and be non-lazy enough just for a minute to tell you how beautiful and wonderful, and thoughtful and soft and kind and funny you are ... and how joyful you make me in my heart!

So there you go!

All the smooches,
your crazy-about-you fiancée,
Ariel

I Am SO Lucky!

Not very many people get to be with somebody as wonderful as you, Elle.

In fact, I can count them and there are only exactly five besides me!

Smoochies!!!

An Ode to Doing

Assertion
Inversion
Insertion
Exertion
Immersion
Immersion
Immersion

The certain

Perfection

Of your person

Endless

We're forever.

Even if our list is done now!

Thing Number Three Hundred and Fifty

The Three Hundred and Fiftieth Thing I Love About Us Is: You.

You mean the moon and the stars and the world to me. The exquisite calm of a forest lake where all the beauty of nature stands reflected. The view from the height of the highest monument humanity has ever raised. The passionate heat of volcanoes. The glee of a stunned crowd cheering their team's impossible last-second victory against a challenge no one expected them to master.

The glory of adoration. The exuberance of affection. The sweet buoying power of acceptance

You are every experience, live every emotion, and embody each and every quality I could desire from my existence.

You are my Best Thing in the Universe ... and I love you with all my heart.

Thing Number Three Hundred and Forty-Nine

The three hundred and forty-ninth thing I love about us is when one of us says, "Almost ... there ... oh! Oh, I'm ... so ... close ... "

Thing Number Three Hundred and Forty-Eight

The three hundred and forty-eighth thing I love about us is the pure certainty I feel within your arms that I am safe.

Thing Number Three Hundred and Forty-Seven

The three hundred and forty-seventh thing I love about us is holding you loosely in my arms to look into your eyes.

Thing Number Three Hundred and Forty-Six

The three hundred and forty-sixth thing I love about us is that this year will be our fifth anniversary.