Tres 💕

My gift to Christopher this morning 💘

Hey! Thanks for stopping by 😄 How's it going? Us, we're just celebrating our anniversary!! :D Well, kinda... the store's still open in West so ... yeah. But! No matter how far apart we are we are still together. And a work errand took us to Billings yesterday so at least we got to be together for a whole day! 😉

It is three years, and we got married on 10/4 which is National Taco Day (coincidence?? We sure didn't plan it that way but it's perfect!) As I was reminiscing about our first three years together I couldn't help but think of tres leches cake... and do foresee that as being a part of our celebration when we get there in a month 🤤 I digress... Let me proceed with my 3 year ----

It does get better! (Not that it was ever bad - just you know good gets better [at least that's the hope]) The past 6 months have been tough as we have been living in two different cities. He’s only made it home a handful of times and I go up to West Yellowstone once every week to week and a half for one to two nights. 

I openly admit I was scared and worried that 4th day of October in 2017. Christopher and I are different in so many ways. I had spent my 30 years prior to Christopher as a single hopeless romantic awaiting my own romance season worthy of any Jane Austen novel. Or at least a Disney Princess moment. Yet at the same time I struggled believing that anyone could love me and also could never size any one up good enough to be the one I would be okay with being always associated with by other people (… maybe that only makes sense in my head?) Also this was not just something that I could return to Target if I got it home and decided I didn’t like it or it wasn’t working out the way I planned. NO take backs! Even though marrying him was what was terrifying me, it was him I wanted to run to for comfort. So that makes sense. 🤪

Some things I love about being married to Mr. Balmer {Side story - I started calling him Mr. Balmer early on... can you guess as a nod to my Austen fantasies 😂. It sounded very formal to everyone who happened to hear (even Chris), but it was my own little secret first pet name for him 😌}

Christopher is always the first to apologize. Seriously one of my favorite things about us…or Him ;) He supports me in anything and everything. He's a dreamer. He works hard to make those dreams happen. He believes BIG! He values and praises my beliefs and strengths. I see what he does to add to my happiness. He loves to spoil me. He tells me I’m pretty (I know! I’m amazed too). He encourages me to do things that scare me. Even on his frenzied days at the store (which is often) he NEVER forgets to tell me that he loves me before hanging up the phone on each of our calls throughout the day while we are apart (and that's saying something! Anyone else married to their co-worker/business partner??) He never leaves me to question how much he adores me. 

I love him and I am so grateful for every year, every day, every moment we are each other’s.