Gavin and I lived just down the road from each other while growing up. Our youngest siblings, Nathanael and Karlee, were born only a couple weeks apart and went to preschool together and his mom would sometimes watch Nathanael for my mom or pick him up from school. When I was about 10 or 11 years old I remember our families went to the lake together and I have a vivid memory of Gavin and my brother Ethan trying to catch little minnows at the shore line. Fast forward a few years to high school he reached out to me on Facebook and the rest is history. We have since had a beautiful daughter, Aniston, and couldn’t be happier. Not long after I graduated high school my family moved out the house I grew up in that was down the road from his parents. We had so many great memories there. So, Gavin took me back to that house, because in Gavin’s words, “it’s where it all began”, and asked me to marry him! I said YES on December 25, 2021. I can’t wait for the rest of our lives together.