Happy Birthday, Kalan!

In honor of Kalan's birthday, here are 27 interesting facts about my husband:

1. He grew up in a mountain cowboy town that didn't even have a stoplight.
2. When he was little he liked to make up his own board games.
3. He plays the saxophone and was the drum major for his high school band.
4. At one time he was the Tae Kwon Do State Champion of Colorado.
5. He really misses weight-lifting with his younger brother.

The entrance to Kalan's childhood home

6. He's a huge extrovert.  His Meyers-Briggs personality is ENTJ.
7. He can successfully order food at a restaurant in Chinese.
8. When it's his turn to choose a date night restaurant, he always picks Cash City Hot Pot.
9. He sported a ponytail for a season of his life.
10. He lived in Russia for a year and can speak Russian.

Kalan's ponytail.  He's in the brown zip-up sweatshirt.

11. This year he made his own pair of Vibram shoes using toe socks and hot glue sticks.
12. His preferred shaved ice topping is sweet red bean and taro.
13. He voluntarily spends some of his free time conjugating Greek verbs.
14. He has an associate's degree in culinary arts and likes to experiment in the kitchen (for example, last week he made marshmallows from scratch.)
15. His favorite card games include Bang!, Texas Hold'em, and Dominion.

16. He has the most diverse Kindle library of anyone I know...everything from writings of the ancient Christian church fathers to World War Z.

Making marshmallows.  They were delicious!

17.  He can consume an entire bag of Circus Peanuts within 24 hours.
18. He doesn't own a TV but watches Law and Order on our laptop from time to time.
19. He secretly enjoys planning our budget on a carefully organized Excel spreadsheet.
20.  Last year on Kalan's birthday, I greeted him with, "Happy Birthday!  I'm pregnant...you're a dad!"

21. He can use a sewing machine to alter his own clothes.
22. He enjoys reading stories to Keira using funny voices and accents and makes us all laugh.

I love you, Dad!

23. He can fold a stack of cloth diapers faster than his wife can.
24. He starts his morning with a hot cup of pu-er cha (dark fermented Asian tea).
25. He prays out loud for Keira and I before we fall asleep at night.
26. He hasn't set foot in America for the past three years.
27. His dream is to help the church expand among the unreached people of Asia.

We love you, Kalan.  Happy Birthday.