Our story of forever began in the most cliché way, my best friend's wedding. September of 2019 I flew up to Portland for my best friend's wedding. We had to stop at the airport the next day to pick up the rest of her in-laws. I was oblivious to the giddy eyes at the time. I was greeted with some of Texas' finest meat and a hug. We both played pertinent wedding roles and stayed busy, all the while relying on each other to get things done. The entire family took a trip to the famous waterfall. Jason invited me to walk to the top with him and I said yes. Turned around, and he was gone! I was left at the bottom of the waterfall. Nerves got the best of him yet we promised each other one day we would return and he wouldn't be allowed to leave me. The night of the wedding Jason asked me to dance and I tried to decline. It was then he learned how graceful and coordinated I was on my feet. Jason was truly the greatest dance partner I had ever had. We improvised and went into a slow dance. Both of us living in different states and neither looking for love at that time in our lives, I figured it was the typical wedding emotions fluttering. Boy were we wrong! Love persisted. The distance was our greatest challenge, yet we persevered. Many flights back and forth and short weekends made before Jason made the ultimate sacrifice and came to complete our family in July.

Jason and I had our first "practice" run proposal in December when the kids and I were visiting for Christmas. He was fixing his sister's piping in the bathroom. As a joke when she walked in he pretended he was proposing. Caleya happened to be there and became so excited. Told him to continue when he stopped. It was cute, but I knew deep down it wasn't "THE PROPOSAL". Flash forward a year and Christmas morning he had made the kids a money wheel and wrapped them. When I woke up there was one for me too. I almost didn't open it and told him, I didn't need any money as a Christmas gift. He told me to just open it! As I unrolled the dollars he had written on it Will You Marry Me? with the ring. I was completely surprised and had no idea that was coming.