Nothing Fancy, Just love

Not a fancy love story but one we get to call ours. Scott and I met at the infamous Shooter’s Bar in Watertown, SD. See, I told you all it wasn’t a fancy love story but I am still going to tell you the story anyways. I was living in St. Cloud, MN at the time and was visiting my sister and her boyfriend (now husband) for the weekend in Watertown. We decided we wanted to catch up over some Bdubs and a few drinks; I was their favorite third wheeler for a while there, or something like that. Anyways, later that night, my sister was determined to set me up with a nice boy to talk to (in hopes I’d fall madly in love and move to Watertown. I joke about this now but it somehow worked). My sister was introducing me to some of her guy friends and one of them happened to be Scott. Let’s just say, she didn’t have him in mind for the kind of guy she wanted me to start talking to. In fact, she even told me to move along but if anyone truly knows me, I never listen very well. Scott is not a romance guy, what so ever, like zero game (sorry Scott!!). But we still managed to hit it off and we all got together again for breakfast the next morning and just like that, we had our first date at IHOP (the most romantic spot in Watertown - sense my sarcasm?). During the entire time at breakfast, somehow that man couldn’t manage to ask me for my number, not once. I even drove him all the way back home to Wallace; which is roughly a 30 minute commute outside of Watertown for my MN friends and family. But not one word during our car ride of "hey, do you think I can I get your number?" This is probably not shocking to the people who know Scott well. When I first met Scott, now this is going to sound so cliché, but I honestly had a gut feeling that he was going to be apart of my life at some point. Scott must of felt the same (or at least I hope he did) and he sent a Snapchat to my sister asking me for my Snapchat name and of course, he still didn't ask for my number. We ended up staying in touch and started to hang out a lot more once I relocated to Watertown, SD (only when I could get Scott off the farm or I'd join him during chores some Sunday mornings). One thing led to another and we started officially dating. We don't have an exact anniversary date, let's just say we count our dating years by calving seasons (typical farmer). That’s seven calving seasons but hey, who’s counting? Shortly there after we both decided to get puppies (Nellie and Bandit), we moved in together, and started our small family when we welcomed twins into the world (Kylie & Knox) in 2019. In the midst of chaos in 2020, we we decided to build our forever home at the farm and in 2022 we welcomed our third child (Maddix) who truly completes our beautiful family of 5. When people ask me "how did you know Scott was the one?" and my answer is simple to me. Scott is a little rough around the edges (as so am I) but has the softest and kindest heart (he doesn't let a lot of people see this side of him). Because I could see that, I knew that Scott was going to make a great dad one day and I couldn't wait to witness it all. Scott is truly an amazing dad, hands down. This is my favorite part about him; watching him as a father warms my heart and makes me so, so happy. We've honestly been through a lot as a couple and as a family but Scott has always, always stuck by my side. He works hard every single day to provide us this life and you don't always find that kind of person like him out there. I'm so so forever grateful for him and so blessed that this is our love story.