Our story began a few years ago. We both (for the most part) grew up in Owasso, OK, but never had met. I'm a Speech-Language Pathologist for Owasso Public Schools and about three years ago Nathan had graduated and was substitute teaching while waiting for a full-time position. One day that spring, I went into our special education classroom to teach a group lesson. Nate was the substitute teacher that day, but I was already dating someone else. After that moment, he tells me he was interested in knowing me more. He found out we had a mutual friend, Carly Schaede, and told her he wouldn't mind if she got a group hang-out planned so he could get to know me more. So Carly then began trying to set us up. It took me over a year to finally agree. We officially met at an OSU football game watch party November 2017 and started dating shortly after. We were engaged December 22, 2018.