We met in high school through our mutual friend Faith. We began talking on social media for a while but I believe the first time we actually hung out & actually talked in person was at our semi winter formal my sophomore year (his junior year). We begun dating some time after that. However 2 weeks after we started dating we broke it off due to curtain circumstances and stayed best friends after that for 2 and a half years! We had always been there for each other through everything. One summer I went up to Alaska for a job with my grandpa at a fishing lodge. He had just gotten out of his 2 and a half year relationship and I had just gotten out of my toxic relationship and we had come in contact again ( there were times where we were unable to talk to each other and due to both of our relationships at the time we had been out of contact for a few months). We talked the last few weeks I was in Alaska and caught each other up on our lives. After I had finally come home and got settled back in at home we had finally hung out and went to a Halloween party at our friends house Oct. 28, 2016. We decided to finally try dating again!! We had our ups and downs but its been an amazing roller coaster! 3 years later I got with some of my girlfriends and told them I wanted to propose to Payton and needed some help with ideas! And yes I know, its not traditional for the girl to ask but we aren't like most people and we are far from traditional. So one night I bought a ring and told all our friends that I was going to propose to him at a bonfire at our friends fire! Everyone was so excited for us. I had one of my friends take him out for a ride to go play in the mud in his truck to distract him while our friends and I wrote "Wheel you marry me?" on the back window of my 4Runner. When they began to pull up when they got back I had my friend turn our song (Say You Won't Let Go by James Arthur) on and I caught his attention and got down on one knee and proposed and he said yes!!