Our story began before we were born. Our parents have been friends since they were in college and we knew each other as children. I think Easter Egg Hunting in 1993 was the first time Sadie saw the light, but she just laughs at the thought our first date being at 3 years old. Years passed, addresses changed, and our families stayed in touch through our parents but Sadie and I didn't really know each other. I then became friends with Sadie’s older sister while we were at Young Harris College. Camping, days at the lake, and exploring the Enchanted Valley, I became good friends with the Lamberts. Sadie was at UGA, traveling the world, and was the Lambert I didn’t know well. We met in passing at UGA a few times and I will happily admit I knew I had to ask her out. There was an air of awkwardness with our families knowing one another and I could only muster up the courage to ask her to social events. This worked out nicely, because she could only work up the kindness to accept social events. We then began a cycle where my God given quality, being hard headed, really came in handy. I would ask her out, she’d move cities or leave the country, and I just kept at it. We had been on a few casual outings, a few concerts, and spent time together with her family. Eventually she gave me small window of opportunity and I jumped all over it. Midweek in late spring of 2017, I left work early, drove to McDonough, and we went on our first date. We were going to dinner before a play and luckily got lost in conversation to the point where we missed "Driving Miss Daisy", darn. I was convinced Sadie was awestruck and sang “Ginn on her mind” everyday, but she wasn't convinced she was yet madly in love. We decided in mid 2018 we had to figure out what reservations we had about the other before marriage, and we went through our list, literally. The main finding each of us had during this period was just how perfectly the Lord brought us together, more specifically in His own time not ours.