the girl who has everything

its funny, this is how i have pictured bub since the day i met him. no. scratch that. since the day i started dating him.
i do know that i am not the slightly more-famous-than-myself blogger you all may have heard of. but interestingly enough, i have always said that bub reminds me of the marlboro man from the old commercials. rugged, rough, tough, gritty, handsome.... oh so lovely. i have waited to snap this perfect shot for a long time. when we were in west texas a few weeks ago, i saw it, i snapped it, now i love it. it captures him. hes hot.
lets talk for a minute about the first time i noticed him. thats when i decided that i could not, would not date him. well, he was with this lady who was classy, beautiful, fit, and totally had it together. clearly i could not compete.
i still know today, i cannot compete with her. mostly because shes his mother, and all of her boys have a fairly high regard for their momma. she is a fantastic wife, mom, grandmother, friend, housekeeper, worker-outer, cook- actually, i havent seen her do anything that she wasnt good at. and i like her. there arent too many people who make the list of people i like, but shes on it--- even though i know i cannot ever compete with her. anyway, after i found out she was his mom, i figured it was ok to date him. hes hot.
his west texas, mixed with south carolina drawl lured me right in. the environment is so influential that i even speak differently when i go to west texas, so you can imagine how bub sounds. i love it. he denies that there is any accent whatsoever. hes delusional. its ok. hes hot.
he has changed my whole world. he has a daughter who thinks he hung the moon. they have a thing about looking at the moon, those two, and i love it. its the sweetest thing ever. that little girl has had terrible fall allergies her whole life. last week they started. she was coughing and sneezing, and told me she needed some medicine. i figured she would be just fine after she had been up and around a while, and i told her so. this child loves medicine, so she kept pressing the issue. logical as i am, i told her that she wasnt sick and didnt need medicine yet, that if she took medicine when she wasnt sick there wouldnt be any left when she WAS sick. she let me know that daddy knows more about medicine, because his dad is a doctor, and he said she could have some. well, since he wasnt home and i was, she didnt get any. i may have lost in that area of expertise with my kids, but its ok. hes hot.