"That look!!"

I arrive at church later than Chris. He sits up front and every week there is a moment that I anticipate like warm gooey brownies with vanilla bean ice-cream on top. It is "the look" he gives me each week when I walk in. It happens every time without fail and I have never mentioned it to him so that he would feel the need to keep it up.

When we arrive the kids always walk in first and he breaks into a huge smile but when his eyes wander down the line to mine that smile moves from an upturned mouth to his lips becoming slightly pressed together and his eyes become low and get this little mischievous twinkle in them that says" there she is and she is mine!". It is the absolute sexiest, loving and most anticipated moment of my week. My stomach gets all tingly and I feel like when we were in college and he kissed me for the first time.

I have kept this "look" a little secret joy of mine for a long long time but today I started getting ready for church in anticipation of that look. I found myself carefully choosing an outfit in hopes that I would maybe cause that look to be a little more surprised or intense than before. When I walked in he gave me that low, loving intense look and once again my stomach triple flipped.

I know that I am not imagining this look because during Relief Society I was asked to sing so he came in to listen. He peeked his head in and scanned the room. As soon as his eyes met mine he got "that look" again. The sister sitting beside me elbowed me and said "oh my goodness....do you see how he is looking at you? wow, that is so cute, he is so in love with you." We have been married 16 1/2 years.......I wonder if he will still look at me that way at the end of our next 16.