It's Finally Happening!

We met in the summer of 2009 through a mutual friend. I was staying at a friends camp that was down the road from Derek's house. We all hung out the whole summer and became really great friends. That next summer on June 30th, Derek asked me to be his girlfriend and we started dating. We dated all through high school and moved in together in 2014. We have been together for ten years now(yes, it took this long for him to propose!) We are the proud fur-parents of a Great Dane-Ruger, 2 cats-Tigger and Tilly. We both love our little family and I personally cant wait to expand it one day with more babies(human and fur)!

I don't even know how to begin to explain how amazing the proposal was. Derek set up this beautiful walkway on a four wheeler path behind our house. He set up strings of photos that we took together throughout the years between small trees and had candles in little white bags lighting the path. The bags were set on wood slices that he cut himself. At the end of the path was a little table that he made with a lantern and 2 more pictures of us on it. Behind it was a sign that read, "Will You Be My Forever" which he burned onto the wood with a torch. He told me that my mom's husband got his Jeep stuck in the woods back there and needed help getting out. We started walking back there and I had no idea what was coming next! When we got close enough to the path where I could see what was happening, I instantly started crying. He held onto me as we walked down the path and when we got to the end, Derek got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. As you can see, I said YES! It was an absolutely perfect moment that we will cherish for the rest of our lives!