Garret and I first met when we were in high school. He used to come sit by me during lunch hour and eat all of the food I had in my lunchbox.

Although we had known each other for a few years, sparks didn’t start to fly until 2015. We were at Country USA, and Garret lost his earring (yes him, not me 😉) I helped him look for it and that was that. Then a few days later he asked me on a date. When the night ended, I gave him “knuckles” when I left. He thought for sure he was caught in the friend zone. But we started dating just a few days later on July 7th, 2015.

Christmas 2018 was coming to an end after a wonderful day spent with our families. We were laying in bed laughing about Grandma’s comment earlier in the day, “Did you get a ring for Christmas?!” ... the first thing she said when we walked through the door. We were about to go to sleep - then Garret said he was going to get something out of the freezer for dinner the next night. Garret walks back in the bedroom and gets down on ONE KNEE and asks me to MARRY HIM!!! My response was, “haha. Funny.” Then I realized he was serious as he was holding a ring in his hands. He wasn’t kidding!