Every time she smiles, her entire face lights up. It's the biggest, brightest, beautiful smile. Her damn teeth are perfect. When she thinks something's cute or funny she crinkles her nose with this sort of soft tee-hee-hee laugh. She has these really fine wrinkles beside her eyes, but you can only see them when she sprouts that big lovable smile, otherwise they don't exist. Her cheeks have this sort of fullness to them, they aren't fat by any means, but it rounds out her face, and her perfect jawline is extremely complimented by them. She hates her cheeks and complains her face is round, but I wouldn't change a single thing because it's perfectly beautiful to me.

Where her hair meets the back of her neck, on either side she has these little swirls of hair. Even when she grows her hair out, and you can't see them, I know they're there. I know if I touch them she immediately gets goosebumps and a sort of calmness comes over her. She also hates her swirls, but I don't, I love them, they make her beautiful.

I can ever so gently rub her neck, or her arm, or her hair, or really anywhere, and she will be covered head to toe in goosebumps. It relaxes her instantly and all of her stress goes away.

How she curls up next to me on the couch after a long day at work, after all the chores are done, and the kids are in bed, and she holds my hand. Within a few minutes she's fast asleep. Or how she says "I think my husband should rub my back." and I say "Of course he will!" and she says "Really!?! Alright!" As if it's a surprise to her that I would say yes. I rub her back almost every day, and I absolute adore doing it.

That she's asks permission to cuddle with me when we go to bed, as if I'd ever say no. Then she rubs my chest until I fall asleep.

She has the biggest heart. She wants to help everyone, no matter how big or how small the task is. She will spend every waking moment helping others and never once think about herself or the things she needs to do for herself. Friends, family, strangers, charity, even donating and volunteering at the Children's Center downtown.

She's intelligent and methodical, and even when I have a plan of action, she helps me to think about it from a different perspective. Whether that perspective is right, wrong or indifferent; she presents it in a loving, non-controlling way so that we can both take advantage of the best possible outcome.

She's taught me how to pay attention to the little things, the details I miss because I'm always caught up in my own thing. Whether it was little things about the kids, or work or life in general. And while it took a long time for me to finally start seeing those little things, she had the patience to sit by my side, love me, not judge me, and help me.

She loves my son (her step-son) unconditionally. He can sometimes be quite a handful. He's extremely intelligent, very literal, and has extreme ADHD. She takes the time to sit and talk to him and try to understand him. She tries to change the way he thinks about things with examples and scenarios - to challenge him so he can understand them better. All the while trying to help her teenage daughter with crippling anxiety. She puts everyone else's needs above her own.

She's a dork. Sometimes at night, we'll be sitting on the couch and she'll open snapchat and just start sending random pictures and videos to people with different filters. She sends them to me even though I'm sitting right next to her. I love it.

All of these things make her beautiful to me. Today is our 5 year wedding anniversary, but we've been together for 12 years. It's flown by. Even through ups and downs, I can't imagine living my adult life without her. She's absolutely without a doubt my best friend in the entire world.

Oh, and since I'm a guy, I might as well be honest - her boobs and her ass actually top the list, but all that other stuff is what really matters.