Our love story

Cody and I met at the abandoned Philpot School the fall of 2011. Us and our friends thought we would be cool to break in and see why it was so "haunted." Let me just clarify, the scary stories are true... I'm still not sure what made me want to grab the hand of the only person I didn't know, but he never let go. My heart was literally beating out my chest. One, because I am a sissy pants. Two, because this hot guy was holding my hand and all I could think was "he is so dang sweet." After that night, we went our separate ways until I received a Facebook message from him. We had a teenage conversation and went our separate ways again. That was until I got a text message from him on New Years Eve our senior year of high school.

New Years Eve of 2012, Cody texted me for the first time. After a few weeks of goodmorning and goodnight texts, he built up the courage to ask me out on a date. To the movies of course because where else did teenagers go out on dates ;) I knew I was leaving for college in a few months, but I couldn't say no to a date with Cody Stone :) My little sis helped me calm my nerves before Cody picked me up, but as soon as I heard that door bell ring, all those butterflies came rushing back. I could tell he was nervous too. So here we are, two nervous nellies on the way to the movies. We got there super early, like 45 minutes before the movie even started early. But we talked as if we had always been friends. We watched "A Haunted House," the comedy that made fun of all the scary movies. Which is ironic since we met at a haunted school, and I think we both just now realized that irony haha. We ate our popcorn and laughed until our stomachs hurt. The entire ride home after the movie all I could think about was if he was going to kiss me goodnight. Seriously, I don't think I could have been any more nervous. We pulled up in my drive way, he walked me to my garage door, and we gave each other the most awkward hug goodbye. But that didn't keep me from wanting to see him again, so I texted him that night and told him what a great time I had :) And it didn't take long before we knew we wanted to be together because less than a month later on February 15th, he asked me to be his girlfriend :) Little did we know we would make 4 years of amazing memories together. Through proms, high school graduation, more dates, family vacations, and eventually living together. And then we received the greatest surprise EVER...

In December of 2016, God sent us the greatest gift....we were pregnant! I knew in my heart how great of a father Cody would be, because even though I was scared out of my mind, he always kept a smile on his face and joy in his voice every time we told the news to our families. And if you know Cody, you know how full his heart is for family. Our little gift was born in August 2017. Her name is Sawyer :) We never imagined we could love anything more than we love each other, until we held our little girl in our arms. And man is she a daddy's girl ;) Ya'll, my heart couldn't be any more full because of these two.

On February 18th, 3 days after our 5th year anniversary of dating, Cody took me and Sawyer to his family farm after Church. It was a beautiful, sunny day after a long rainy week. Cody drove up on the hill to show us his favorite view. He set up the video recorder to "take pictures of us." While I'm sitting on the tail-gate, he and Sawyer come around with a little red box saying "I think we know the real reason why we came here.." Stunned, I couldn't take my eyes off the box he was holding. He opens it up and says, "Will you marry me?" I thought he was joking! If only the video recorder was facing in our direction because I am positive I blacked out for second! With tears in my eyes, I said heavens YES, and he slid the most beautiful ring on my bare finger. I then knew why he had sweated through a shirt before and after church! Now, 5 years later, we went from high school sweethearts to FIANCES! I still can't believe this incredible man is going to be my husband, and I his wife. Here's to forever sweetheart :)