We're Getting Married!

After a 4 month hiatus from helping them move the first time, I went to help them move from the storage unit to the house. Michaela was looking so AMAZING in her sweat pants, t-shirt, and no makeup that I couldn't help but notice her this time! Her Dad, Mitch, had mentioned the week before to my mom that my "future wife" (his words) was a pretty awesome woman. It took me a week (and a lot of coaching from Connor and Alyssa) to make the call to her dad to ask his permission to take her out and, to my surprise, he allowed it even though it meant his 'Bama-bred daughter going out with a LSU Cajun Boy. I was so nervous I left her a very awkward message that she kept and laughs at to this day. She paused (for a little too long) after I asked if she wanted to go to a Dallas Stars hockey game but ultimately said yes. Before the game came around, I decided to roll the dice and invite her to an LSU-Texas A&M watch party with some friends and my entire family... it was risky. She showed up in her Alabama Sweatshirt and fit right in talking trash immediately to my folks. From the first moment, we just fit perfectly together. From the Stars game, our first kiss, top Golf (I won), the first "I love you" on New Years Eve, Prepare 2020 (when I knew she was the one God meant for me), the first trip together (Pittsburgh in the dead of winter), the first home-cooked Korean meal (took way too long for that), buying the ring (and holding on to it for wayyy to long), proposing in front of my family and our friends in Austin, to planning our wedding and hunting/buying our first house together. Every moment (good and challenging) has been the way it was always meant to be. Thank you to Unkyong and Mitch for raising an amazing woman and bringing her to Texas! Thank you to my parents for teaching and showing me how to love each other. Most of all, thank you to God for bringing us together at a time and place in our lives where we can help each other become who He wants us to be.