We are so excited to celebrate with you!

The band and one of the diamonds is from his great grandmother on his moms side. She was a tiny greek woman, so they had to add a little bit of gold in order for it to fit my finger. The middle diamond is from his great grandmother on his dads side. The third diamond is one that Brendan picked out telling me “this diamond signifies our family and what we are building together.” We hadnt talked about the ring much, but I told him the one thing that I wanted in a ring was for it to have meaning. He absolutely blew me away.

I am forever grateful to that crazy algorithm that matched Brendan for residency in Kalamazoo. He told his Grandma that he thought his life was over with the news of having to move to the midwest for the next 3 years. Little did either of us know that it was actually the beginning of the rest of our lives. I did a double take the first moment I saw him in the ER and haven't been able to look away since. Brendan asked me out on our first date and began asking me to breakfast, lunch, and dinner. We were both over playing "games" and I was over the moon that this beautiful man wanted to spend so much time with me.

He took me to Sweetwaters, the doughnut mill where I first asked him to "doughnuts and milk". We ate them on the porch of our old house until Austin suggested we go on a walk. (Little did I know that him and Logan were in on all this) We started out on our favorite walk in Kalamazoo that looks out over the city and right in the middle Brendan threw in that we had some real estate to look at. I was only a little mad (TOTAL understatement) as we proceeded to look at a basement of one of the properties we had recently purchased. I didnt know at the time that Brendan was trying to throw me off the scent of his surprise. (I also didnt know that this was meant to buy time for family and friends to set up a small engagement party back at our old house) The walk recommenced, and as we got to the top and looked out over the city where our story began, Brendan got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. Ive never been more sure of anything in my life.