Forever & Ever, Amen..

Chelsea had a crush on Shane in Middle School, even asking him to the Middle School Dance (Shane claims he never knew). Chelsea went on to be best friends with Shane's sister in High School. Shane and Chelsea then ended up going to Colorado State University where they both graduated with the same degree, just a year apart and only running into each other one time on campus. After graduating both Shane and Chelsea went back home, where they were both chosen to attend the police academy, but once again one class apart. After they were both back in their hometowns and working for their separate departments, their friendship actually began.

Mid November 2017, Shane and Chelsea began talking (mostly about work related things). At the end of November, Chelsea out of the blue asked Shane if he wanted to go to her family's Thanksgiving in McCook, NE. Shane was hesitant but ultimately decided he would go, why not right? They drove to McCook early in the morning after getting off shift at around midnight or so. When they arrived at Judy's house, nobody was awake so Shane and Chelsea sat downstairs and talked the rest of the morning. They had a great day with Chelsea's family and for as random and unexpected as the whole thing was, everything felt right.

December 1, 2018 came around and Shane and Chelsea had planned a trip to the Denver Zoo for the Zoo Lights. Shane knew Chelsea's favorite Zoo Animal was the giraffe. So towards the end of the night, the Giraffe exhibit was ironically the last animal to see. Shane said we should get a picture in front of these beautiful blue Christmas lights that were right next to the giraffe's, however it immediately became a huge deal about who to ask to take the picture. So I told Shane just to ask someone that was walking by, he said "NO, I don't want to ask just anyone and have them run off with your phone!" I thought it was so strange that he was so adamant about it. Shane ended up walking over to a woman who was watching her children play in the grass. Shane seemed to be speaking with the woman for what seemed like forever, in my head I was thinking how strange it was that it was taking him so long to just ask a woman to take our picture! Turns out Shane was taking his time planning his next steps, he told the woman that we would pose for a picture in front of the beautiful blue lights like we had planned, then once that was done, he was going to drop to one knee and ask me to marry him. Shane wanted to make sure that she would continue taking pictures as he proposed. Shane then got down on one knee and asked me if I would marry him, obviously I said 'YES' with the utmost excitement! I can't wait to spend forever with this guy!