We met all thanks to our moms and Connor's youngest brother Dillon. Our moms worked at the same nursery school that Dillon went to. The joke is EVERYONE in the Putz family met Melissa before Connor did. One night I dropped Dillon off from hanging out at our house. Connor's mom told Dillon and I to go downstairs and hang out a little longer. Dillon and I were in the middle of playing darts when Connor came home from football practice. After that night we started talking, and the rest is history!

It was a few days before my birthday when Connor came home and asked if he could give me my birthday present a few days early. "Of course!" I said, and a HUGE box was placed in front of me. As I started to open the box I saw a stuffed German Shepherd. At the time, I had been begging Connor for quite a while to get another dog. As I opened the box Connor told me to read the tag... the name read "Baghira". Connor then had me flip the name tag over and it read "Will you marry me?" When I turned around (in shock after 7 years) Connor was down on one knee... by far the best birthday EVER!