Well guys and gals... we are tying the knot! We met on Match.com, because that it how all the kids do it these days. No there is no commercial in the works. I, Audrie, hit like on a photo of our lovely Mistie dog and the conversation took off from there. Messages turned to texts which turned to phone calls. After about a month of talking we finally decided to go on an actual date. Our first date was at the Alamo Draft house to see Starwars. I was annoyingly early and he was almost late. I kept shifting the popcorn bowl nervously. Our second date was at one of his favorite Italian places, Gaetano's, proceeded by a trip to lookout mountain. He thought I was going to murder him because I took the back way. I literally was falling for him every where we went. I know perfect RomCom material right. We went shooting, our dogs met, I met almost his ENTIRE family, he met almost my ENTIRE family, we moved in together, he held me through times of grief, and we have continued to grow and build our relationship piece by piece. The Engagement: We traveled to Arizona for Abby, my sister's, college graduation. The morning of Reese decided that it was the perfect opportunity to ask my father's permission for my hand... I of course paced awkwardly in the house waiting for the answer. Diana, my step mother, tried to go outside and noticed that a very important conversation may have been taking place and she quickly retreated inside. We eventually all ended up chatting together which lead to us all going inside. Reese stayed outside to smoke a cigarette and then he called me back out and got on one knee. He forgot the ring... so I got proposed too with a shiny rock from the backyard. ( Fun fact: it now rests in a pot with one of our many cacti. ) Now here we are. In the midst of planning out wedding. Plans have changed many times but we could not be more excited to start this new chapter.