This. Took. Forever. But for those that read the third chapter in "Those Moments We Shared", I said I might do something like this – and I did! I will write separate one-shots for all of these, but please be patient! It's going to take a long while! But I hope you enjoy even just the list!
100 things I know and love about Annie
1. She always leaves a cup of coffee on the nightstand, every morning, because she gets up before me.
2. She once left me a tape recorded message when she had to leave early and now we leave them for each other almost every day.
3. She sits through an entire movie with me and narrates the entire thing, even if I had seen it before my accident.
4. She knows when I need to talk and when she needs to rub my shoulders and just be with me.
5. When she gets excited about something, the tone of her voice changes and it's hard to get her to stop talking, but I never want her to stop because she's so happy.
6. She's content to sit at Allen's with me and share a couple beers while we rant about how hectic our lives are.
7. She'll send me plenty of coded emails during work and never misses an opportunity to come up and actually talk to me.
8. When it rains, she loves to go outside and jump in the puddles because her father never let her as a kid.
9. She'll draw little patterns on my arms when we're just laying in bed, just so I can feel that she's there.
10. She doesn't cry often but when she does – I hate it. Absolutely hate it and it makes me feel worse when I can't do anything to help.
11. She always knows when I'm in a mood, and can always defuse me and make me smile again.
12. She sings loudly in the shower and in the car and I never knew that she could sing so well.
13. She describes the sun set to me vividly, and it feels like I'd seen it better than I ever had before.
14. When she's feeling playful, she'll steal the shirt I had laid out before I got in the shower. And she won't tell me where she hid it.
15. She'll play those little games on her phone and makes adorable noises.
16. When she gets irritated, I can feel her nose scrunch up and she pouts.
17. When I'm sick, she'll bring a bowl of her special homemade chicken noodle soup. I never have the heart to tell her it tastes like dishwater.
18. When she's sick, she'll snuggle into my chest and is content to lay there for the rest of the day. I make sure I never have to get up.
19. She loves puppies. Nuff' said.
20. When we get in a fight that isn't huge, she'll sit right outside the door and pout. A couple "I'm sorry's" and a bag of chocolate later, she's sitting in my arms on the couch, munching away.
21. She holds her beer and tequila well...it's everything else she has a problem with.
22. She likes to draw – and while I'll never know if she's as good as everyone says she is, I always stay in a position for a very long time, just listening to her pencil scratch the paper.
23. When she's overseas for a mission, she always calls me at night. If she doesn't I start to worry.
24. When she's not wearing one of my old t-shirts to bed, she wears a long white nightgown that goes to her knees. She says it makes her feel old fashioned.
25. She can get very protective, very quickly. If she feels I'm threatened, she becomes scary Annie and everyone backs away.
26. If I'm ever the cause of her pain, I go to the ends of the earth to fix it. If someone else is the cause of her pain, they'll have to go to the ends of the earth to get away from me.
27. When she brings me a muffin in the morning at work, she'll break off a chunk and call that her payment.
28. She'll leave the last one of everything. The last little bit of milk, the last cookie...everything and anything.
29. She likes to buy a coloring book and color each picture outside the lines. She's says it was her way of breaking the rules as a child.
30. She watches this show called Arrow religiously. She never misses an episode.
31. She wears high heels a lot, but I discovered she has a pair of red converse that she's also particularly fond of.
32. She's knows exactly where my sensitive spots are on my body...and when to lick them.
33. She loves costume parties. And I really should've known what I was getting myself into when I agreed to be the Tigger to her Pooh Bear.
34. When she's on her period, she either gets angry really fast, or cries really easily. Both are equally dangerous.
35. She trusts very easily. Which is a good thing and a bad thing.
36. Put chips and salsa in front of her and they'll be gone in a few minutes.
37. She once told me that it had always been her dream to be a bride in a long white dress. It wasn't much longer before I was down on my knee.
38. Sometimes she'll talk in different languages just to mess with me.
39. She has problems peeling oranges.
40. When she's feeling devious, she'll play hide and seek with me...she's gotten very good.
41. She's admitted that she sometimes has a low self-esteem about her appearance. I never fail to tell her that she's beautiful all the time, every day.
42. I caught her reading a book called "How to Read Braille" once. She had been practicing and had been planning to show me that she could read it at our wedding. I don't think I've ever cried that hard or felt more love toward anyone before.
43. She deals with my crazy, messed up family.
44. She's always loved fireworks, and she'll bounce up and down in excitement, waiting for them to start.
45. I discovered that she had never been to a Homecoming or Prom when she was in high school. I wasn't about to let that go...ask Joan.
46. A week before our wedding, I placed my dog tags in her hands and told her she now held my heart. She never takes them off.
47. She can really work a lap dance.
48. She actually reads a lot. She just never has the time to, and that makes her sad.
49. Not many people can make her blush. I'm proud to say I'm one of the few that can.
50. June, 8th, 2014. The day that Annie Walker became Annie Anderson. And she also became mine. Legally.
51. She loves to slow dance...and drive me crazy at the same time.
52. When she gets really drunk, she acts like a three year old.
53. She loves beaches. So she was ecstatic when I finally got to bring her to the Galapagos for our Honeymoon.
54. When she takes a bath, she always puts in too much bubble bath. Always.
55. She's terrified of spiders.
56. She's never had a great relationship with her parents – and I know it hurts her.
57. She gets nervous when she has to talk in front of large groups. But when she gets up there she's flawless.
58. She never really likes to tell me when she's hurt. Either after a mission or otherwise.
59. She comes to me during work for computer help...when there's nothing wrong with her computer.
60. She giggles uncontrollably when you tickle her just under her belly button.
61. She hates puking. Hates it, just because she thinks she looks awful doing it. She wouldn't even let me in the bathroom while she was sick because of that reason.
62. If you leave her alone in front of an aquarium, she'll start to follow one fish and gets disappointed when it disappears.
63. She sometimes forgets that I'm blind – and that's one of the greatest gifts she's ever given me.
64. She ran around the entire house after we had purchased it, because she was so excited.
65. When she gets really nervous I can hear her foot bouncing up and down. I had no idea why she was so agitated until the words, "I'm pregnant. With twins." rushed out of her mouth.
66. She'll sometimes sneak around humming the Mission Impossible theme song. I don't know why.
67. She uses a lot of sticky notes. Sometimes just to decorate.
68. She hates highlighters because she says they always leave marks on your fingers, no matter how careful you are.
69. She always says she's nothing like her sister – but when they're together I beg to differ.
70. She loves our babies. She'll sit and read to them every night, even when she's exhausted.
71. She loves the opera. I always fall asleep, but I know I won't miss the story because she'll talk about all the way home.
72. When she gets cooped up somewhere, like her desk, she gets a slight case of cabin fever.
73. She loves listening to my old record player. She says the sound is much better than her IPod.
74. She likes to come up with little nicknames for me and uses them at the most inappropriate opportunities.
75. To any man who thinks that their wives craving's were bad...they haven't met Annie. I don't know how she stomached the pickle – peanut butter-jelly-hummus – spinach sandwich. I almost puked making it.
76. If ever she's sad (for no reason but her pregnancy hormones) all I have to do is put on What Does the Fox Say. She laughs every time.
77. The first time she felt our babies kick she cried. We both did.
78. Once she learned how to do it, she loved to leave me notes in Braille. And I loved reading them.
79. I found that even at 32 years old, she loves it when I sing Hunter Hayes songs to her.
80. She likes yellow daises, so I filled our bedroom with them on our one year anniversary.
81. She likes to scrapbook, I found, when I walked into the living room to find her sitting on the ground with a large book balancing on her growing belly.
82. She loves walks in the park, especially during the time when fall is around the corner, because she loves the colors of the leaves.
83. She hates it when people think she's incapable of anything just because she's a pretty girl. She's a pretty girl who's taken down more legally classified giants than anyone on this planet. Except maybe Chuck Norris.
84. In her heart, she secretly craves Joan's appreciation. What she doesn't know is that she's already got it – and much more.
85. She has fuzzy blue slippers that she wears every morning. They are the only things she every leaves on the ground. I should know, I stepped on them.
86. Cliché for a man to say, I know, but she's incredible in bed. Not one woman ever comes close to Annie and how Ben left her behind...I'll never understand.
87. Speaking of which, she's never really gotten over Ben Mercer. I can tell that the thought of him still hurts her – all I can do is try to put the pieces of her heart back together little by little.
88. If she's going to have lemonade because she can't drink alcohol, then it has to be straight up lemonade. No pink crap, as she calls it.
89. She insists that our children watch Disney movies, so she makes me watch them with her.
90. Whenever she just wants to relax, she'll grab a bite to eat and sit at the fountain by Langley. She insists that it's an even better time if I join her.
91. She sometimes gets into these "cleaning frenzies." After those, the house is cleaner than when we first bought it.
92. Like any woman, she loves to be kissed. Anywhere, anytime. I take completely advantage of this fact.
93. She was heartbroken when she had to ditch her high heels for flats. However, it was adorable to feel her wobble back and forth as she walked.
94. When she's really bored, she likes to freak me out. And give me multiple heart attacks in the process.
95. She hates the dentist. But who doesn't?
96. When Joan sent her on maternity leave, she didn't handle it well. In her words, she hated feeling like she was useless.
97. She'll spend hours flipping through books filled with baby names.
98. She loves her nieces and my nephews to death, and when I watch her play with them, I get even more excited for the future we were going to have.
99. She's a fantastic mom. I knew she would be, but on December, 9, 2015, she got a dose of it herself.
100. She loves me. I know that for certain as she wears my dog tags around her neck. A wedding ring on her finger. The way she kisses me good morning and good night. The way she loves and protects our children. She loves me. And I couldn't ask for anything more.
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