05/26/2026
25 years ago today, I married my blind date. ❤️
In December of 1999, while home from Montana State for Christmas break, my sister asked if I wanted to go to a work Christmas party with her boyfriend’s brother. That brother was Troy Williams.
Within minutes of him picking me up from my mom’s apartment on 12/12/99, we clicked. Easy conversation. Easy laughter. It felt like home immediately.
A few months later, I was supposed to leave for Australia to visit someone from a prior relationship I had long outgrown. Troy, my mom, and my sister took me to the airport. While standing in line, Troy grabbed one of those old paper luggage tags and wrote, “Don’t forget about Troy,” attaching it to my suitcase.
When I looked down and read it, my heart knew.
My mom told me, “Follow your heart, not your commitments.”
I never got on the plane.
One week later, on June 14, 2000, Troy proposed to me in the living room of his apartment off Beach Blvd. We were married the following year on May 26, 2001.
Troy always believed our love was divine. Intentional. God-ordained. And after 25 years together, I still believe that too.
This is our first wedding anniversary with Troy in heaven, and this first hurts deeply. I miss him in ways words cannot explain. He was my balance, my safest place, my biggest cheerleader, my very best friend, and so much more.
Thank you, Troy, for loving me so fully. Thank you for our two incredible sons. Thank you for the beautiful life we built together.
Our wedding song was Keith Urban’s “Your Everything.”
Troy… you were my everything and more.
Happy 25th Anniversary. I love you forever. I won’t forget you.
