{"id":73,"date":"2008-02-14T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T12:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/02\/happy-valentines-day-an-ode-to-my-dave.html"},"modified":"2008-02-14T12:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T12:43:00","slug":"happy-valentines-day-an-ode-to-my-dave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/02\/happy-valentines-day-an-ode-to-my-dave\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day &#8212; An Ode to my Dave!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got tagged by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.susiesolo.blogspot.com\/\">Susie<\/a> to do this, so here goes.<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/vollmerdp\/DaveABUs\/photo#5158842135185520706\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.google.com\/vollmerdp\/R5fjltgM-EI\/AAAAAAAALHw\/ddIINWXh12M\/s400\/Dave_ABU.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: right;\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/vollmerdp\/DaveABUs\">DaveABUs<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>What is his name?<br \/>David Russell Vollmer.<\/p>\n<p>How long have you been married?<br \/>13 1\/2 years.<\/p>\n<p>How long did you date?<br \/>About 1 1\/2 years.<\/p>\n<p>How old is he?<br \/>33.5 &#8211; yes, he&#8217;s a tad younger, but it&#8217;s definitely fun that way!<\/p>\n<p>How old are you?<br \/>34.5<\/p>\n<p>Who eats more sweets?<br \/>That&#8217;s a tough one. He&#8217;s the family chocoholic, but I can put away the Halloween candy like no tomorrow, if left unchecked!<\/p>\n<p>Who said I love you first?<br \/>He did. In a Valentine&#8217;s Day card 15 years ago today. (&#8220;Awwwww&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Who is taller?<br \/>Dave<\/p>\n<p>Who can sing better?<br \/>We&#8217;re about even. We both have a good time belting it out in church, but you probably won&#8217;t hear us otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Who is smarter?<br \/>Dave&#8217;s the almost-PhD man. But one could argue that a piece of paper does not equal smarts. Seriously, though, Dave&#8217;s pretty brilliant and I couldn&#8217;t be more proud!<\/p>\n<p>Who does the laundry?<br \/>Usually me. I just recently signed Dave off as being trained on our washer\/dryer.<\/p>\n<p>Who does the dishes?<br \/>Usually me, since he is bathing the kids at the same time. If I slack off or if there&#8217;s a dish he needs, he&#8217;ll do them. Or, if Dave needs a favor, he&#8217;ll surprise me and do them.<\/p>\n<p>Who pays the bills?<br \/>I do. I have been thinking recently that if I were somehow incapacitated, it&#8217;d be good if Dave could do our bills. It&#8217;s a combination of auto-pay, Quicken and Web Bill Pay.<\/p>\n<p>His guilty pleasure?<br \/>Chocolate and a good beer.<\/p>\n<p>Who sleeps on the right side of the bed?<br \/>If &#8220;right&#8221; is defined as by one standing at the foot of the bed, that would be Dave.<\/p>\n<p>Who mows the lawn?<br \/>I usually do. Up till NC, it was exclusively Dave but the allergies here have been horrible on him. It&#8217;s a sight to see, all these men mowing the lawns, and my next door neighbor (single woman) and I mowing our lawns at the end of the cul-de-sac.<\/p>\n<p>Besides you, who is his best friend?<br \/>Joe, one of his PSU roommates.<\/p>\n<p>Who cooks dinner?<br \/>Usually me, but he gets a hankerin&#8217; to mess around in the kitchen sometimes and he has a good time. He&#8217;s wanting to learn more about cooking, especially with wholesome, natural ingredients, which I think is great.<\/p>\n<p>Who drives?<br \/>I do more often, because he can read books in the car and I get carsick if I do anything besides look out the window.<\/p>\n<p>Who kissed who first?<br \/>I&#8217;m really not sure &#8212; it might have been one of those movie-moment-style mutual first kisses.<\/p>\n<p>Who asked who out first?<br \/>Dave asked me.<\/p>\n<p>What was your first date?<br \/>The movie &#8220;Gettysburg&#8221;. Not recommended for a first date, it&#8217;s a 4-hour long war epic.<\/p>\n<p>Who proposed?<br \/>Dave. At the Victorian Manor restaurant in Bellefonte, PA. It was in front of everyone and I was very embarassed by all the attention.<\/p>\n<p>Who has more siblings?<br \/>We each have one sibling. Dave has an older brother, I have a younger sister.<\/p>\n<p>Who wears the pants?<br \/>Dave.<\/p>\n<p>What is your favorite thing about him?<br \/>That he makes me happy, he treats me with respect, and he&#8217;s awesome with our boys.<\/p>\n<p>I tag <a href=\"http:\/\/bosleydownunder.blogspot.com\/\">Morgan,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mandakini97.blogspot.com\/\">Margaret<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/maryanng.blogspot.com\/\">Maryann<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got tagged by Susie to do this, so here goes. From DaveABUs What is his name?David Russell Vollmer. How long have you been married?13 1\/2 years. How long did you date?About 1 1\/2 years. 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