Together Forever

Just to let everyone know, we cancelled the wedding in Missoula, about a week before the venue cancelled all the June weddings anyway. However, Nick and Andrea didnt want to wait and see when the Covid restrictions would be lifted, so they decided to have it at their residence with close family only and bridal party. This caused more things to happen very quickly, Nick recruited his gents to come help finish and clean out the shop so the group would have a place to be if it rained, we had a lot of dirt work and clean up to do outside as well as finish building a retaining wall. All in all we hope it will all turn out and we get it done before the big day and will have time to relax for a little while. Now back to the reception and extended family get together... We are hoping to just do a big camping trip with family and friends, nothing fancy, but we will likely do a mock ceremony if people wants, but we will wear our wonderful attire. Problem is we dont know when, maybe later this year, maybe 2021? When we know more we will let everyone know. Thank you everybody, we sure wish it was the original plan, but plans change so we adapt :)

We first met in Strengths lab class in college, Andrea was in a group of metallurgy students and then there was Nick. He knew one of the guys and joined the group. From there on it was a lot of shenanigans, late nights writing reports and drinking mass amounts of alcohol to get through classes. We were friends for about a year and then somewhere along the way in March of 2014 we started dating.

Finally after 5 long grueling years of loving, fighting, and growing, Nick finally popped the question on 5.20.19. We were doing our typical chores, feeding the animals. The weather was overcast, foggy, and horses wet and muddy. We finished feeding, put away the tractor and was going to call it a night. Nick wanted to go pet the horses so we grabbed some treats and went back out. Andrea fed them some treats, and went to check on the cows and calves. She happened to look back and saw Nick with Oggie (our 2018 foal) with something tied around him... "its a scarf"... Nick said, at that point Andrea had a pretty good idea since she had been hounding him for a few months, but still went to look at the cows. As she headed back up, Oggie was already head deep in the hay. She went to feed him the last treat and before she turned back around Nick was on one knee. From what she recalled he said he couldn't wait one more day.