Happy Birthday,
Bree
The most beautiful soul I have ever known was born on this day — and somehow, the luckiest thing that ever happened to me was finding you.
♥ July 3rd · Your Day ♥
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A Letter For You
From My Whole Heart
My Bree,
Today the whole world gets to celebrate the day you came into it — but I get to celebrate it every single day, just by getting to love you.
You are the softest, warmest, most genuine person I have ever known. There is a kindness in you that makes everyone around you feel safe, and a light in you that I could never look away from. You don't even realize how rare you are.
You make the ordinary feel like magic. A normal night turns into the best night of my life just because you're in it. You are my calm, my home, my favorite person and my best friend all at once.
So on your birthday, I just want you to know: you are so deeply loved. More than any words on a screen could ever hold. I am the luckiest person alive because the universe made you, and then somehow let me find you.
Happy birthday, my love. Here's to celebrating you — today and for the rest of my life.
Who You Are
Everything I Adore About You
The Way You Feel Things
You feel everything in full color — every joy, every ache, every little moment most people walk right past. Loving someone with a heart that big is a rare, beautiful thing, and I never take it for granted.
How Safe You Make Me
With you I don't have to perform, or impress, or hold anything back. You unlocked a version of me that finally gets to exhale. I have never felt more like myself than I do when I'm with you.
The Sound of Your Laugh
It's my favorite sound in the whole world — the real one, the one that sneaks up on you and takes over your entire face. I would happily make a fool of myself a thousand times over just to hear it one more time.
The Fight In You
You've carried things that would have broken most people, and yet here you are — still soft, still kind, still you. Your strength isn't loud. It's quiet and steady, and it's one of the most beautiful things about you.
How You See Me
Somehow you look at me and see the best version of who I could ever be — and then you make me want to actually become him. No one has ever believed in me the way that you do.
Getting To Be Yours
Out of every single person in this entire world, I'm the lucky one who gets to be yours. That will never stop feeling like the most impossible, wonderful miracle of my whole life.
A List With No End
Reasons I Love You
Reason № 1
For Whenever You Need Me
Open When...
Little letters for the moments I can't be right there beside you. Tap one whenever you need it. ♥
Make a Wish, Birthday Girl
Close your eyes, make a wish, and blow out your candles ♥
Everything Still To Come
All The Things I Can't Wait To Do With You
Wake up next to you
Every morning, with your head on my chest and absolutely nowhere we have to be.
See the whole world with you
New cities, new skies, new little cafés — and your hand in mine through every bit of it.
Build a home that's ours
Full of inside jokes, soft mornings, terrible singing, and a love that lives in every room.
Dance with you in the kitchen
No music needed. Just us, swaying in our socks, laughing at nothing, completely at home.
Get through the hard days too
Because I don't just want the easy parts — I want all of it, every season, as long as it's with you.
Grow old beside you
Grey hair, soft wrinkles, a lifetime of memories — and me still looking at you like it's day one.
Time Well Spent
Since The Day You Became Mine
...and I have loved every single second of loving you. ♥
Written in the stars, for you
One More Thing, Before You Go
If You Remember Nothing Else
My Bree,
If one day all of this fades — the website, the words, even the little details of this exact birthday — I need you to hold on to just one thing:
That somewhere out there, a person who had quietly stopped believing he'd ever be truly known finally was. By you. You didn't just walk into my life — you turned the lights on in rooms I had forgotten I even had.
I know the world hasn't always been gentle with you. I know there were nights you felt like too much, or not enough, or completely alone. I wish I could go back and sit beside every younger version of you and promise her that someone was coming who would choose her — all of her — without a single condition. I can't go back. But I can spend the rest of my life being that promise kept.
So on the morning of your birthday, before the day gets loud, let me be the first quiet voice you hear: You are wanted. You are treasured. You are the love of my entire life. And for as long as my heart is beating, you will never have to wonder if you're loved enough again.
Happy birthday, my girl. Thank you for being born. Thank you for being you. Thank you, more than anything, for being mine.
Happy birthday, my love.
Here's to you, to us, and to every
beautiful tomorrow we get to share. ♥
P.S.
No matter where life takes us, no matter how many birthdays we're lucky enough to spend
together — my answer will always be you. You are my favorite
person, my safest place, and the very best part of every single day.
Happy birthday, my Bree. I love you more than these words could
ever hold, and far more than you'll ever truly know.