You've only been around for a year and that's the strangest thing to me, it might just be because my grasp on time is a little wobbly, but also it's just because it just feels like you've been around forever. Like you've always been there being ridiculous and loud and hyperactive in the corner and we only noticed a year ago. Having you around feels so familiar, like all good things I guess.

And yet, even with the the familiar feeling - there's the surprises - you're just always amazing me. I know it's a strong word and maybe intense but I'm using it because it's true. You're so talented and so strong and so kind and so .. so many things .. that I'm always surprised. There's always something new you're doing, something new you're showing us, something new you're proving - and it's the best. You should know that you don't need to prove anything to me, but I love that you'll keep doing that anyway.

I have so many reasons why I adore you. I want to list them all but I can't because I would always forget something. I would forget something important, and I don't want to do that. There's one thing I want to mention though, and if only because I've been meaning to do so for the longest time.

I love you because you laugh with your entire beings. You fall to the floor, trip over each other, knock into each other, grab onto each other for balance and to catch your breath and wipe the tears from your eyes. You do this all the time and not just every once and a while. You make each other laugh like I've never seen people laugh, you make me laugh like I only ever do when I'm at my happiest. And I'm so rarely even a little happy that the laughter and the joy and the smiling you make me do magnifies every feeling I could feel for you to so much greater a place.

Your laughter, quite literally, is one of my most favourite things to witness. Because you're so visibly happy. Because you're so visibly happy .. together. And people being so happy with other people and because of other people? To me that's the best thing in the world - and you do that for each other all the time. It fills me with so much joy knowing that you love each other more than I could ever love you.

That's just one reason on a list of many why I love you so dearly, and why I don't feel even a bit silly using the words "love" and "adore" and "treasure" to describe how I feel about you. Why you were my first bias group and why it took a matter of hours for me to figure it out. It's just really easy for me to love you dudes, and that makes me .. really happy (surprise).

So .. in the end, I'd really like to thank you - for reaching for your dreams, for not giving up, for sharing your talent and your brightness and your laughter with us. For letting us into your lives and your hearts and for never being anyone other than yourselves.

And this is weird and feelingsy as so many things become when I talk or think about you and I apologize for the intensity at which I usually express my emotions. I just have a lot to say and a lot of love, and I'm glad I get to give a bit (or more than a bit) of that to you.

Happy 1 year, kids! Here's to many many more to come ♥