Chase Stokes Needs ‘My Love’ Kelsea Ballerini a Completely satisfied thirty second Birthday

 Chase Stokes is cherishing time with Kelsea Ballerini.

On Friday, Sept. 12, the Outer Banks star, 32, marked the nation artist’s thirty second birthday with an Instagram tribute stuffed with photographs from their time collectively.

The 2 first sparked courting rumors when Stokes posted a cuddly photo of them on the Georgia vs. TCU sport at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif., in January 2023. That April, the pair made their relationship public after they walked their first red carpet collectively on the 2023 CMT Awards.

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Stokes wrote in Friday’s put up devoted to Ballerini: “though you retain saying you’re not excited for 32, id say I’m lookin ahead to extra of this. completely happy birthday my love ❤️.”

The Instagram carousel started with a photograph of Stokes and Ballerini sitting courtside at a New York Knicks game in December 2024.

Subsequent up was a selfie taken on a handheld digicam by Ballerini exhibiting her and Stokes laughing collectively. The third picture was one other selfie, this time taken by Stokes, of the 2 making foolish faces.

A picture of Ballerini in a jet adopted, in addition to an image of the musician enjoying her guitar as Stokes stood to the aspect watching her in admiration.

Stokes devoted the subsequent slots within the Instagram carousel to solo photographs of Ballerini, together with one of many musician standing subsequent to an indication that appeared to learn “no garbage to be left on this space,” and a shot of her utilizing Simple Cheese.

A video included within the put up additionally noticed her asking why her utensils had been so flat at a restaurant.

Different photographs noticed the performer mendacity down on the ground subsequent to her dogs and stress-free outside at evening.

In PEOPLE’s September 2024 digital cover story, Stokes revealed that he and Ballerini have set up a relationship rule of “by no means going greater than three weeks” with out seeing one another.

“We do not BS one another. If we’d like to take the time to indicate up when one’s throughout the nation, we do it,” Stokes advised PEOPLE.

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“The quantity of effort that we put into our careers, we needs to be doubling that in our private lives,” he mentioned. “It is about actually placing in effort, and it isn’t all the time simple and it isn’t all the time handy, however having an enormous, stunning life did not come from comfort or ease.”