I am living a bit of an unconventional life situation!! My husband of 31 years has been working a job that he took in Montana. He is back and forth…We have lived and moved all over the West for various job positions throughout our marriage. We have always made every situation work!! Having him away makes me even more aware of the things I truly love, miss and value in him. When he is home, we just laugh and have so much fun being together.
I am creating this post for myself, so I will always remember the funny memories, the pranks, the laughter…THANKS, LOVE. I miss you soo much when you are away.
He just left this morning and what did I find tucked away in my workout shoes—a candy wrapper that he had nicely folded and left in my shoe to remember him by! That guy! He is so fun! I miss you, Love.
A couple fun stories that I want to always remember: While he was just here visiting–the two of us were following one another to return his car rental but had to fill up our gas tanks along the way. I pulled in first and my husband was in the diagonal gas pump near me. I smiled at the gas attendant and pointed at my husband’s car, “Please harass that guy in that car, He is from Montana!” The gas attendant smiled and approached my husbands car. I couldn’t wait to see what crazy antic my husband would pull.
NOTHING!! What. so, not like him. hahaha
We dropped the car rental off and I asked my husband what the gas attendant had said to him. My husband smiled at me & told me that the guy told him “that lady wants me to harass you!” My husband then proceeded to tell me what went through his mind… and that he had to do all he could to not jump out of the car…”I was about to get out of the car and make a HUGE scene and say, “I spend one night with you and now you won’t stop following me!!’
I busted out laughing!! I thought it was soo hilarious!! We played back and forth of what we would have said and done IF he had actually done that!! He keeps kicking himself that he didn’t. We laughed and laughed at the funny antics…we would have been yelling from two different cars, everyone wondering what was going on…I responding, “Yeah. you wish. One night…more like 31 years!!” Then we would have got real serious and my husband would have said, “Get over here!” and we would have kissed and smiled, waved and said, “Nothing to see here!!….Only in Oregon!” hahaha.
We just have so much fun!! My husband is always pulling pranks, having fun and is always the one who brings the FUN to any gathering. He makes life a JOY!! He has all kinds of fun impressions like Mickey Mouse, Shaggy from Scooby Doo and He sings like Kermit the frog, but loves it too much to care & will literally leave our neighbors goodies & sing them a telegram type message…My daughter and I often look at one another and laugh at the silly, made-up songs he creates all the time! He is constantly singing…it is hilarious!! He is always up to something…he has done golden egg hunts with his co-workers throughout the office, poppers on toilet seats and door knobs, filled someone’s shower with floor to ceiling stuffed animals and stacked home decor that just fell out when the shower door was opened…he has done the traditional Pennies on faucets, Saran Wrap on toilet seats, Freeway food fights with family, driving around with Michael Myers masks…his Halloween costumes are always crazy [he is so notorious and memorable that one of his young nephews for Halloween dressed up as Jon & it was classic]…he has rolled dozens of golf balls onto our neighbors yard to make him think the golfers on the course were hitting them near his house (our neighbor was so upset, confused and it was hilarious)…took ten bags of raked leaves (from our yard) over to our brother-in-laws and dumped them in his yard……he is always up for a spontaneous illegal firework run because he is a bit of a pyro (ironically we did start our neighbors yard on fire with the whole fire dept showing up–that was crazy **special note to self: Kate & Jon minutes before fire started were in the drive-way with lighters, smiling and looking suspicious as people drove by**)…he hung a scary halloween floating doll “Annie Lilleth” that he rigged to the garage when we opened the door…AND then also had her fly in front of our neighbor’s window…hilarious….he did a RickShaw race with brother-in-laws up a hill and won…he is a huge Survivor show fan & has actually gone to the casting call & made it fun for those there…he is known as the “Bat man” in our neighborhood because we live in a woodland forest with lots of bats & on various occasions they slip in the garage door into the house. He gets his fishing net and wrangles them back outside. BUT, he also pranked me by hanging one in our loft bedroom with a string from the ceiling so it looked like it was flying….ahhhhh. Terrifying!! He is always hiding to scare our daughter or setting up elaborate door traps and getting her to jump–its a bonding thing they try to do to one another…haha…he LOVES to embarrass our daughter and any boy she is dating by announcing, “We have Kate and so and so here” in restaurants, in front of her college dorm, etc…..He embarrasses friends and family with loud restaurant announcements like… it was my sisters birthday and we show up at a local restaurant and what does my husband want to do…walk in with a megaphone with the siren on!! haha.The whole place stopped, shut up in SILENCE and I think everyone wondered if we were there to rob the place. The cooks in the kitchen…EVERYONE in the whole place…stopped. It got silent so quick…seriously!! Then my husband announced that it was my sister’s birthday & had everyone sing!! It was hilarious. BUT One of the BEST…he went on a guys camp trip (with brother-in-laws and their boys) and backpacked into the wilderness. Before he went he downloaded Grizzly bear sounds and when he was there he hid a speaker in the bushes. In the middle of the night he began a little tease that made one brother stop, listen and ask if anyone heard anything. Everyone in their own tents, all listening….my husband waited and then hit the sound again…my husband just laughing in his tent as they all started scurrying, grabbing shoes, bear spray and alerting one another that there was a bear nearby….my husband was rolling with laughter. He got them soo good!! It was epic!
We just have FUN!! Its all the little things that are not even on here—like laughing together, silly dances or food fights in the kitchen, playing off one another and creating fun for those around us—like a pizza party last night where my husband and I started a fun wave with all our neighborhood friends for our neighbor Wayne’s birthday…the “Wayne Wave”—we all laughed and smiled.
My Jon is just FUN!! He always makes me laugh and I miss that most. I miss just having him around whistling, joking, laughing and playing together. We just bring life to one another in the joy…the FUN of life!! When you enJOY someone—life is just better. I miss that most!! When he is here—life is the best!!
So, find those people who bring JOY…surround yourself with them and appreciate the time you have with them. We all know there are plenty of people who KILL JOY or who drain an occasion…be someone who brings the JOY, who lights up a room, who everyone is genuinely HAPPY to enJOY.
THANKS for doing YOU, UNAPOLOGETICALLY. LOVE YOU SO. xoxo
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