I think everyone is familiar with how Justin and I met. Before I tell you our story, Justin told Blake for the longest time “I’m gonna marry your cousin one day”💗 Justin has been best friends with my cousin Blake since grade school. You know as a kid your parents would let you bring a friend on vacation. Well, Blake always brought Justin. We were about 12/13 years old when my family took a vacation to PCB. I thought Justin was super cute with his buzzed head and braces. I remember this night vividly. The worst part about this trip was that Blake and Justin met 2 girls at the beach. One night, I went down to the pool to find them. As I’m walking up to the gazebo, I see Justin lean over and kiss that blonde girl. My heart was broken💔 and I balled my eyes out all the way back up to the condo!! Years later my aunt Lisa tells me she told Justin on the way home from that trip that I had a crush on him and that my feelings were hurt when I saw him kiss that girl. His response to her was, “well why didn’t y’all tell me?? I didn’t know! I like Abbie too”. In 2012, Justin came to the family reunion at Norfork Lake. After a couple days of vacation, it was obvious we were both still interested in one another. While playing pool, Justin walked down to the cabin and asked my dad if he could date me. And my dad's response was, “I wouldn’t want anyone else to date my daughter”. Justin did not ask me to be his girlfriend that night...he was nervous😉 After the lake, it took a couple weeks of being apart for him to build up the courage to ask me to be his girlfriend...he still didnt! I finally had to ask if he wanted me to be his girlfriend or not😂

One night after the gym, I called Justin to see what he was up to. He was at Mr. P’s hanging out with his friends. He needed a ride home, so I scooped him up. I remember we were jamming out to some old 90’s music on the car ride home. I’m fixing a glass of tea. I turned around and he’s down on one knee. He didn’t say anything or even move!! I said “Justin what are you doing? Get up off the floor”. Keep in my mind, he has “fake proposed” many times before with bacon or something. He remains on one knee and says “I think you’re supposed to say something”. And I responded with “um I think YOU are supposed to say something”. We laughed. I try to turn on the lights and he goes “no turn them off!” He just stares at me and says nothing. So I’m getting proposed to in the dark and not really sure what is going on😂 Finally, he says “I love you”. Of course, it was the easiest yes of my life. Next day, I asked him “why last night” and he said “it just felt right”. There weren’t any candles or roses, and I looked like I just stepped off a softball field (his words). Anyone that knows us, knows this fits us-nothing fancy💕