If you want to get technical we met in Mrs. Laxner's first grade class at Eagle Point Elementary. Brandon claims that is where I caught his eye. Although we knew each other at a young age we attended two different middle schools and met again in tenth grade at CBHS. We were introduced to each other by a mutual friend in Juice blends where Brandon was getting a smoothie with his dad, Bob. We started messaging on what was the cool thing back then, BBM & the rest was history.

November of 2020 Brandon and I have been together for 10 years!! I am sure you could imagine how much we talked about marriage and how ready we both were for the next step in our lives. COVID happened and we had plans to go to NYC (our favorite city) but obviously with everything going on we decided to cancel. Little did I know Brandon had been planning the ultimate engagement and not only did COVID ruin our travel plans but they also ruined the plans of our entire family and best friends. Fast forward to 2 weeks before engagement weekend. Brandon asked me if I wanted to go on a little vacation since we were unable to travel out of the state. He suggested Naples and naturally I was being a brat about it because I was pissed we could not go to NYC. I finally agreed and we booked a stay at the Naples Bay Resort and Marina. Brandon told me he booked us a Catamaran on Saturday afternoon and after we would do a happy hour and a nice dinner. Saturday morning 9/5/2020 we headed to the resort. We dropped our bags and decided to go to the pool bar before the Catamaran. Fast forward to 1:00pm when we headed to the Catamaran. We got on and there was about 8 people on the boat. Little did I know one of those people was our photographer. We had the absolute best time and about 2 hours in Brandon got down on one knee and asked me to be his FOREVER. I obviously balled my eyes out and I screamed, "YES," and we were engaged. When we got off the catamaran he told me that we had dinner plans so we were going to the hotel to change. Well the surprises were not over. I opened the hotel door to a room decorated and all our favorite people inside. Our engagement weekend was everything we ever dreamed of and MORE!

We are so excited to celebrate this next chapter in our lives with you! We only waited 10 years for this day! LET THE COUNTDOWN BEGIN!!