Welcome to Our Love Story

Growing up we are all asked what we want to be when we grow up. Of course we are suppose to answer with a doctor, a teacher or The President of The United States. I would always answer a vet but what I have wanted to be since as early as I can remember was a wife and a mother. This caused me to start looking for my true love in first grade. For those who know my story, this desire lead me down a very scary path for several years. I was beginning to believe I would never find my true love. I was messing around with dating apps and had this profile of a guy that kept popping up but I could never make a decision to swipe left or right. He seemed charming, had a sense of humor, had goofy pictures but for some reason I was scared to swipe right. After two days of seeing his profile continue to pop up on my app I decided to swipe right. This guy immediately started messaging me, talking to me like we knew each other for years, making jokes and blowing up my Snapchat with his trip to San Diego. I would laugh out loud from his messages but I would get so annoyed with the constant notifications from snapchat. However, I couldn’t remember the last time I had laughed and smiled this much. He asked me on a date to my favorite place on earth (the zoo) and I excepted. That morning it was 19 degrees. Freezing. I would have canceled on any other guy but this one was interesting and I had to meet him in person. I walked into the zoo and there he was holding a red panda stuffed animal. This guy showed up in 19 degree and bought me a stuff animal of my favorite animal on the planet. He was off to a good start! We explored the zoo as long as we could stand and went to Bdubs to get some food and drinks afterwards. I walked into Bdubs and saw him sitting there and just had this moment where everyone around him slowed down and he was the only person I could see. My heart was just fluttering and I knew in that moment, this was it. I found him. He was the man I was suppose to be with. But being skeptical I still hounded him with questions but with each answer I could see the passion in his eyes and the hope in his heart and just knew this was real, this was my future. And the rest was history. We spent everyday after that together. I can count on one hand the number of days we had been part in that first year together. It was all so natural and like we had known each other since the beginning of time. He made my first dream come true in 2021 when we welcomed our baby girl into the world, making me a mother. A year later he made my dreams come true again and made me his wife on my favorite holiday of the year, at my favorite place on earth, in-front of my favorite animal of all time. He has made all my dreams come true and more! He is so much more than I every dreamed my forever person to be. I’m so excited I get to spend forever with you by my side and see what other dreams we can make come true!

I have always been a person who thought I would never settle down. That statement was true until November 08, 2019 when I met my Jellybean for the first time. We had our first date at the zoo (if you know Emily, you know that this isn’t surprising) and I kid you not when I say it was a brisk 19 degrees, but I was excited to meet this girl. I sat at a bench near the entrance after getting her a stuffed red panda and waited for her to show up not knowing initially that I was waiting for my future wife to walk through the gates. Hearing her walk up and say “hey” I look over and immediately knew that she was going to be the one. It’s that feeling you get when you see a server walking with your food or when you get the the big reveal at the end of a movie. Its the kind of love where you get all warm on the inside and it never goes away. No one else in their right mind would have shown up for a date in 19 degree weather, she was special. As our date continued my love and passion for her grew. She was funny, pretty, smart, and just a touch smartass, all the things that I didn’t know I was looking for until I met her. Since that day, I can actually count on one hand how many days we have spent apart (it’s 4, for those that are wondering). Everything came natural to us, it was like we had known each other for years. From that day on we had done so much in accomplishing what are relationship had felt like from the beginning. Since then we have brought in multiple animals, and introduced the world to our pumpkin, Bexley.

The Proposal was not as straight forward as our initial date when I knew she was the one. I wanted the proposal to be well thought out, special, grand, and thoughtful. However, if you know me, you know that I’m more of a spontaneous soul with a flair for the dramatic. So the proposal was going to be tricky for me to feel like it was going to be perfect. With the ring secured, it was only a matter of when and where. October 2022 rolls around and there is a feeling in the air telling me, “It’s time”. October is my favorite month and around this time Halloween was right around the corner, we needed some pumpkins. Not being a fan of getting pumpkins from the store, I wanted to get pumpkins at a pumpkin patch (for authenticity) and knew that it was the perfect place and time. When we got out to get pumpkins the first day I had all intentions of doing it that day, I had this picture in my mind of a field of pumpkins with her picking up one going “it’s perfect!” then turning around to see me on a white steed with long flowing hair where I would have then popped the question. A few issues came up that day, for one I didn’t have a steed and all the locations we went to were just bleak which was not what I envisioned whatsoever. I had the ring in my pocket all day waiting for the time to be right. We left discouraged, but I knew this was still going to be my plan. The next day, October 30, we went out again to find some pumpkins. I found this place that said it had a pumpkin patch and we had to take a hay ride to get to the field, it was perfect(at least that’s what I was hoping). On the tractor to the field I had to catch myself multiple times for fiddling with the ring in my pocket so she wouldn’t suspect anything. Emily says she didn’t suspect anything but I was being to awkward for her to really not have noticed. Although in her defense, I can get pretty awkward if the occasion calls for it. We get to the pumpkin patch and it’s perfect, bright orange pumpkins scattered everywhere. I had initially planned a speech, which was actually really good, Emily would have for sure cried at how good it was. However my spontaneous side broke through, and as she was picking up a pumpkin, it just happened, I couldn’t keep it in anymore. I dropped to one knee and waited for her to turn around. I was shaking from how nervous I was. She turns around to see me and gasps because something she had always wanted was finally happening, we were gonna get married!! I couldn’t have been more excited, I was gonna marry my best friend. The rest, as they say, is history.