Their paths had crossed several times before their first official meeting with them working in the same building for a couple of years but never had met officially. One night both decided to go out on the town with friends and ended up at the same location. As Haley and her friend Abby made their way through the crowd, Abby spotted a cute very tall guy (McKay) towards the back of the room. She began to jump up and down pointing at him telling Haley "that's the man you're going to be with, you need to go talk to him". Haley told Abby she was crazy and continued to walk through the crowd not thinking anything of it. A few minuets later Abby says "I am going to go talk to him for you I'll be right back" and proceeds to go tell McKay he needed to ask Haley to dance. McKay walked over and asked Haley to dance and they danced the rest of the night away, exchanged numbers and went separate ways. The next day McKay asked Haley to go eat and watch the Razorback basketball game for their first official date and they have been together ever since :)

McKay had told Haley he had set up family pictures as part of her Christmas present. The day of they drove the Lake Leatherwood in Eureka Springs for the photos and the location was beautiful and the fall tree colors were gorgeous! They met the photographer and started taking family pictures as normal, Haley not having any idea everything else going on behind the scenes. The photographer suggested to drive around to the other side where there was some really pretty yellow trees down by the lake. As pictures continued, the photographer asked if she could try a couples photo idea she had only tried with one other couple, she wanted them to turn our backs toward each other than when she said "Go!" ,they were going to turn and run towards each other to capture a fun, carefree moment! The first go was a fail so she said lets try again and let me coach you through it, so they turned away ( at least Haley thought ) and at that moment McKay got down on one knee to pull the ring box out of his boot. When Haley turned around for take two she froze mid step as McKay was on knee smiling and said " Haley, will you marry me? ". Of course she said "Yes!" after asking many times if it was a joke or if he was serious. And yet she had another surprise around the corner, McKay's mom had driven all the way from Georgia to help set up the décor McKay had planned! It was such an incredible and special moment the two will remember forever.