I had always been told to “get to know people” in my major before attending Texas A&M, which led me to have the guts to ask Jeremy for his number at the new student conference. And boy am I sure glad I did! This had led to taking classes together and sitting with each other every day. As we grew close as friends and gave each other advice on relationships, I knew he would always be a dependable and trustworthy friend that I would never want to lose. As we got closer throughout the year and a half at Texas A&M, and the closer he came to graduating, the thought of him leaving was terrifying. Somehow, I also started becoming jealous of other girls trying to be with him and I knew that if he ever got a different girlfriend that our friendship would never be the same. In church, I had always prayed for my future husband throughout college. Little did I know that God had led me to him on the second day of our new student conference. As our friendship grew stronger, without even realizing, my feelings turned into something more whenever I was around him. Luckily, Jeremy had caught on to these feelings and started viewing our relationship as more serious than just friends. On February 28th, when he asked me to be his girlfriend, there was no doubt in my mind that he was the one I wanted to be with. He was my best friend and now my boyfriend! On May 18th, I was so excited for his big graduation day so I was definitely NOT expecting a proposal. I was just expecting some yummy mimosas and beignets for the morning, BUT he had something even bigger in mind. He proposed to me at the courtyard of one of our favorite restaurants in town (shoutout to Taylor and Gina for pulling that off). It was everything I could’ve dreamed of and more... along with Jeremy being everything I could have dreamed of and more. It has been an amazing 5 years of knowing him and getting to be by his side. Words will never be able to explain how grateful or how head over heels I am for this guy!

In July 2014, both Faith and I attended our new student orientation at Texas A&M as transfer students. We were both majoring in Kinesiology and chose the same degree plan of Motor Behavior. We sat down next to each other and exchanged smiles with each other, but did not really converse much until the end of orientation. Faith said, “Hey I know this might be weird but can we exchange numbers? I have always heard that you need to get to know people in your major”. I thought to myself that she was just trying to play it smooth and get my number, but I ended up giving her my number anyways. We both signed up for a couple of classes together and started hanging out just as friends. Over our year and a half as friends, we started hanging out more and more and had plans for almost every day of the week. We went to ab classes on Mondays and Wednesdays, got tacos on Taco Tuesdays, margaritas on Thursdays, and then went to church together on Sundays. We hung out all the time and then finally I realized that I was starting to fall for Faith. Looking back on it, throughout our friendship, I always knew deep down that I could see myself with Faith (I found out later that everyone around us could see it too). I knew that if I started dating Faith, then she could very well be my wife someday. It was definitely a scary thought for my 21-year-old self, but I knew that I would be really lucky to have her as my wife someday. I asked her to be my girlfriend on February 28th, 2016 and then 3 and a half years later I finally asked her to marry me on the day I graduated from Physical Therapy school. I always think that it’s crazy that all of this started from us sitting next to each other in that orientation room. I feel very blessed that God put her into my life and cannot thank Him enough for all the he has done for us in our time together.