32 Things About Brian (in no particular order)

1. He was born on October 1, 1976.

2. He is 6 feet, 4 and ¾ inches tall.

3. One of his favorite desserts is one that his Grandma Orton makes, which has a walnutty crust, chocolate pudding, a cream cheesey layer, and whipped cream on the top.

4. He graduated from BYU in August of 2004 with a degree in Zoology. No, that doesn’t mean he knows how to raise elephants, giraffes, or zebras. And snakes aren’t allowed in our house, so we won’t even talk about them.

5. He has blue eyes.

6. He is lucky. If he plays a game of chance, or enters a contest with a random winner, he will most likely win.

7. He prefers to sleep in the very dark.

8. He was born in Heidelberg, Baden Wuerttemberg, Germany.

9. He enjoys fishing with his dad.

10. He likes to read old books, and he reads very fast. He’s read the entire Tarzan series, along with all the other books written by the same author. He’s also read The Count of Monte Cristo multiple times (and maybe once in German?) and a whole ton of other classics.

11. He wears a US size 12 mens shoe.

12. His favorite soda pop is root beer. He likes A & W, Henry Weinharts,ABC (?), etc.

13. He is not a morning person…definitely a night owl.

14. He looks cute when he laughs really hard and the skin around his eyes crinkles.

15. He graduated from Richland High School in 1995.

16. He loves to take his family to Disneyland, or at least he lets his wife believe that he does.

17. He moved to the United States when he was two years old. His mother gave him some medicine to help him sleep on the flight, but it had the opposite effect on him, and he wore out his poor mother during the journey.

18. He has flat feet. The man at the shoe store says that his ankles/feet are pronate.

19. He married Carrie Lynn Lewis on February 16, 2001 in the LDS temple in Salt Lake City.

20. His attending doctors from his first preceptorship said that his strongest area for serving optometric patients is pediatrics.

21. He likes nice (and usually expensive) knives. He has an Atwood that was custom made just for him, and I have to admit that it's a beautiful knife.

22. He became a father on August 9, 2002 when he was 25 years old. His father was also 25 when he was born.

23. He is very generous with material possessions. He is not stingy at all.

24. He has very dry skin.

25. He received his endowments in the LDS church on October 14, 1995 in the Seattle temple.

26. He likes to eat meat: steak, prime rib, cow tongue, brisket, ribs, etc.

27. He has a sister (Erin) and a brother (Eric). When he was little, and his mother would go on errands, he asked her why she couldn’t go on Brians, too.

28. He has dark brown hair. (sometimes I say black, but he always corrects me. dark brown)

29. He served as a faithful and hard working missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the Leipzig, Germany mission from 1995-1997.

30. He ran cross country in high school.

31. He makes wonderfully yummy caramels.

32. He is a wonderful husband and father, and he is dang good looking.

Happy birthday, Honey!