days like these;

when your friday night is spent playing a neverending game of risk with your friends and you look outside and IT IS SNOWING the biggest snow flakes you've ever seen, plus it's may, plus it's a 3 day weekend which means snow isn't allowed, plus you already planned a little day trip to the cutest little mountain town....the snow is just a fun sucker.

but. we went anyway. evan was determined to have this trip. this trip to this adorable town we love a lot. with the best brewery in montana that also makes the yummiest chicken salad panini. where evan can talk for hours about their beer (nitro beer.....so weird.) and i can talk for hours about their sandwiches. we wandered around the candy shop and browsed the rows and rows of baskets of candy and the glass cases full of homemade chocolates and turtles and fudge and truffles.

we went to our favorite book store slash tea bar and drank hot tea (hers: mint, his: chocolate chai mate). we ate too much candy and chocolate and talked about how much fun it would be to own a tea bar. and then we tried to walk around outside but 30 degrees is too cold for people who have been experiencing 80-90 degrees for the past month. so we walked to another coffee shop. where we had even bigger cups of tea (which was made in MT and so, so delicious) and read our books for hours and hours.

i'm not really one for winter. especially when winter shows up in may. but i'm one for day trips that involve A LOT of hot tea. and books. and laughing with my husband. and sloshing through snow. and snow flakes the size of my hand. and forgetting to bring a real jacket thus freezing in my summer dress and jean jacket. and not worrying about things at home, but enjoying our time together. and trying to find the most outlandishly priced item ($450 salt and pepper shakers for the win). and dinner at our favorite steak house (sans prime rib because who is out of prime rib in MT?! we have more cows than people. COME ON.)

i tried to cancel the trip because of the unplanned snow storm. i tried to convince evan to curl up in our bed and watch netflix and sleep all day. i tried to make a million excuses as to why a day trip in the snow would not be fun.

and i was wrong. as i sat in the warm coffee shop, sipping on my tea and watching evan mouth the words he was reading, i was so happy (further proving the point of my previous post). again. my life is so perfect. i'm a rusher. i'm a go-go-goer. always rushing, always running. i cannot remember the last time i sat in a coffee shop and just sat. aside from this weekend BECAUSE I HAD THREE COFFEE SHOP DATES. the answer, probably never. ah. it was perfect. and it's going to become a necessity. to unwind and regroup and relax. because i've never felt more refreshed or ready to tackle my life than i do after this trip and this weekend.

we ended our night with a bottle of sweet red wine and a movie and some foot massages and lots of laughter.

i kind of love that man a lot.