We first met in 2013 at the Glenville State College Fitness Center through a mutual friend, but were only acquaintances and lost touch. Fast-forward to 2018 and we reconnected online during the holiday season. We kept in contact for the following months through the phone since Colton lived in Virginia and didn't go on a date until the beginning of March. It was not long until we were meeting each others' families and traveling to see one another.

I'm a big seafood lover, so I had expressed to Colton that I would love to go to a seafood restaurant one day when I was visiting. He told me that he had made plans for us to go to dinner and meet up with one of his friends by the beach to have drinks that evening. I thought he meant we would be going to a beachfront bar, when he actually meant the two of us and his friend sitting on the beach and having a drink. I didn't really like that idea because I thought it was weird to sit and drink at the beach in the dark with one of his friends, so I wasn't in the best mood. As we were sitting in the dark on a towel, Colton kept staring at me and acting weird, but I thought it was because he wanted to see if I was upset, so at one point I literally told him to stop looking at me. He even tried to convince me to stand up for different reasons. First it was to see a dolphin in the water, my response was that I wouldn't be able to see it since its dark. Then it was that his friend arrived, who wasn't actually there, and that I should stand, but I didn't because I had met this friend several times. He then squatted next to me by the towel and started fidgeting with it to the point of me asking him what he was doing and realizing he was going to propose. I instantly started crying and of course said yes! It is a very interesting story that we get to have forever!