We met through a mutual friend on July 9th, 2015, and from the moment we met I knew this was going to be my person. We quickly exchanged numbers that night and the rest was history. We fell in love and we both knew that this was forever. We supported each other through thick and thin, through schooling, dead end jobs, and opposite shifts. We learned that we would have to work hard together to have everything that we wanted. We got engaged on July 1, 2016 but decided to have a long engagement until we were financially comfortable to afford our big dream wedding. We moved into her brothers house so we could save up for our first home! We finally started to get somewhere, I graduated from cosmetology school and Ellie got a wonderful job we were finally starting to make some money to get everything we wanted. Many ups and many downs it was just her and I against the world. In January of 2018 Ellie changed careers to be a Correctional Officer at the East Moline Correctional Center. We learned that we can do anything we want with the love and support of one another. May of 2018 we bought out first home in Rock Island, IL. We bought a few animals to fill our home (oops..) and were living the dream. November of 2018 I finally got my call to be a Correctional Officer at the same prison. Now, we are invincible... and the rest was history.