We first officially met at the first football scrimmage of freshman year. Austin was talking with Jesse on the sidelines and I brought them over water. As soon as Austin went on the field I asked Jesse who he had been talking to. When I got home that day I tried looking him up on Facebook, do you know how many Austin Smiths there are? A lot. It took me a few days to find the right person but when I did I noticed he had already sent me a friend request. We talked constantly for the next week and I knew right away that he was going to have a huge impact on my life. We had many things in common and bonded over the most random things, like the fact that we both have wide feet. Though there were many random things we bonded over there were many other things that we found we had in common. We both love hunting, fishing, snowmobiling, four wheeling, really anything to do with being outside, and we both have a sibling with special needs. We decided to hang out together at the first varsity football game of the year. We sat on the top row of the bleachers and as the game reached halftime he asked me to be his girlfriend with a kiss.

Austin and I decided to attend Minnesota State University Mankato after high school. Austin is going for law enforcement and I am going for nursing. We have found out a lot about ourselves individually as well as us as a couple. Before we started school we decided we wanted to live off campus, we found a place to call home during our college experience. We have grown together through the good bad and stressful we worked hard for each other because we both knew we had met the person that we were made to be with. As we went through high school and moved onto college we faced new challenges that come with paying bills and navigating a new environment. This helped us continued to grow as a couple.