Chainsaws
Jump Kicks
Lighting Hair on Fire
Baywatch Acting
Bologna
Emril Lagasse
One Way Streets

3. The Getaway Gift
Since Liz lives more than a hop skip and a tumble (she's clumsy) away from her parents, it is easy for her to feel homesick for them. So for Christmas I gave her the 12 gifts of Christmas each with a theme of her going to on a "mini-vaca" to go shopping at Jordan Creek in Des Moines with her mom. Although some of them had nothing to do with the theme at all. The gifts were as follows:
12-a twelve month subscription to Wonder Time magazine
For moms to get ideas on things to do with their kids when home with them. This was to encourage Liz in pursuing a job that would put her home with Jaxon (and others) during the day.
11-drinks from Sonic
We both love Cherry-Limeades and this is a good drink to grab coming home from a long hard day at work, or on your way out to the Des Moines area.
10-ten $10 bills
For shopping!
9-nine packs of gum
Because she is a gum freak, I should call her Violet Beauregarde.
8-chocolates
Not just any chocolates, GOURMET! After opening the box I realized there were only 6...it crushed me, but Liz didn't seem to care.
7-seven sticks of chapstick
Who knew chapstick was so flipping expensive!? I almost killed this gift after purchasing these and realizing I needed to get another job to pay for it. So I just got a job shoveling snow.
6-six super fuzzy, pink, thermal socks
She really likes warm socks...I don't know why but she loved them.
5-gain five pounds!
This consisted of a PF Chang's gift card for Liz and her mom to go eat.
4-a four pack of some beverages
Liz and her mom both love it so they could drink it when they were together.
3-three boxes of her favorite candies
I can't even remember what they were now, but they were for the car ride to Des Moines.
2-a pair of the tiniest diamond earrings ever made
They were so small she lost one or both of them, not long after she got them. They probably fell throw the hole in her ear, I still laugh when I think of how tiny they were, but she loved them while she had them.
1-I can't remember...LOL

2. The Proposal
It was Christmas and we were at my parent's house celebrating, and I asked Liz to take a walk with me around the block. There were a few houses around the area that had fantastic light displays and it wasn't too cold so we'd have fun. She agreed and we started walking. When I got to the furthest point from my parent's house I pulled a ring box from my pocket and gave it to her. She just looked up at me and back to the box several times then opened it. Inside she found a piece of paper that had been folded multiple times. Her smile faded. She unfolded the paper to see a picture of a TV. Then I told her how I got her a TV to replace her tiny one, since she'd be moving out on her own soon. She was not amused, and spent the next few minutes venting about how she thought I was going to propose and that I was a jerk. I apologized and was embarrassed that a gift could back fire so heavily.
All of a sudden it started to snow a very light powder just as we were passing under a flickering street light. It was like something out of a movie so I asked her to stop and wait for me to tie my shoe. Then I pulled another ring box out of my coat and asked her to be my wife. She never actually said "Yes" she just kept repeating "Are you serious!?" I guess I deserved that. But she'll never forget that night.

1. The Lucky Charms (LCs)
This one I totally forgot about until not too long ago, when I saw an old LCs box sitting in our basement and I asked Liz why we were keeping it. Her face lit up and she reminded me of #1 on our list.
Liz told me once when we had first started dating that she loved the marshmallows in LCs. So I went out and bought 4 boxes of LCs, poured them all in to a huge bowl and started picking out the marshmallows and putting them into one of the empty LCs bags. Once I had a full bag, i used a hot curling iron to reseal the bag and put it into one of the empty boxes and used a hot-glue gun to reseal the box. Then I gave it to her. She was speechless, but I don't think she ever finished a whole bowl of it, because there is a reason LCs don't come with just the marshmallows...it is disgusting and you get sick.