I first met Caleb through my parents!! When I met him he was in Joshua, so obviously very off-limits, but still v cute! I wasn't looking for a relationship and had just been asking the Lord to show me his heart for marriage. I knew I didn't just want to marry someone and build our dream life together but instead wanted to passionately pursue the Lord and let him choose my best teammate! Someone that would push me to never be satisfied being the same one day to the next, but reminded me of our purpose here on earth and helped me more fully become who God made me to be. I wanted to know whoever he was really well before we ever started dating and I always knew I would only date someone for a few months before getting engaged. Never could I have imagined what a perfect person God already had for me in Caleb! When Caleb moved to Kingsburg and we started hanging out, I knew that there was something very different about him. He was so patient, saw things in people they didn't see in themselves, had this crazy persistence to grow, and was relentless in his pursuit of the Lord! He was so level headed, which kind of drove me crazy, but know I love, haha! As we continued to hang out, I knew that I could marry this guy, but decided to completely surrender that to the Lord, which I have to admit was no easy task. Fast forward a few months later, Caleb asked me on a date, ahhhh!!! I was so excited I could hardly handle it! We walked, got tacos and frozen yogurt, and just talked! We sat outside and he started telling me literally EVERYTHING I had been praying that the man I would marry would say. I'd never felt so protected, so loved and so cherished all wrapped in one! As our relationship has grown, I am continually amazed at how many things God has orchestrated and lined up so perfectly. I feel so convicted to share what God has done and how amazing he is, so how cool that I get to continue to do that for the rest of my life, with my best buddy!

After I graduated high school God lead me to attend the Joshua Wilderness Institue at Hume lake! I met a man named Peter Erickson and God told me to learn as much as I could from Peter, so I asked him to mentor me! He drove up to Hume from Kingsburg every week to disciple me! Through Peter, I met Alyssa, His daughter! I was focused on knowing God and going where He leads me! I was not thinking about dating. :) After JWI God just closed door after door and led me straight to Kingsburg to work for Peter! I always hoped that I would become best friends with someone before I even dated them. God put Alyssa in my life and said here is your best friend! I was still focused on ONLY pursuing God and no relationships, which was awesome because God grew us both so much! One of my favorite things is how God leads me through every single step of my life and he has done that in our relationship! How He brought us together, how He grows us, how he made it clear when He wanted us to date, how he led us to exactly when He wanted us to get engaged, and how He has made June 28th so clear! HE IS SO GOOD! In this season of my life, God has blessed me so much with people and food and everything that everyone always wants to worry about He provides! The greatest gift He has ever given me is Alyssa! He made her for great things! He has taught me so much through her! One of the best ways that I have found to explain it is that while we have been learning to seek God and run to Him, He put us in each other's lives to do that together! It is a picture of God giving me Alyssa's hand to hold while I run to him but now I want to sprint with everything that I got! What God is doing every single day is way better than I could have ever imagined or even known to ask for! He even made it clear to me when He wanted me to tell her that I am in love with her! She is my absolute favorite person in the whole wide world and I am so excited to see God continue to do great things and grow us more and more!