we're getting married!!

It all started when we ran into each other at the hospital we both worked at. I walked into the med room to find Robin loading patient's medications into the med cart. Hesitant to speak at first, I couldn't pass up the opportunity for an awkward conversation with a fellow middle & high school acquaintance. I approached Robin with, "Hey, don't I know you from high school?" To which he responded, "uhh, I think so..?" with a look of confusion. To be fair, we both were wearing masks and he recognized me after I told him my name. That night, our short and awkward conversation transitioned into a Facebook DM from him. This was the start of something more beautiful than we could've imagined. Our attraction towards one another grew with the novels of text we would send back and forth on Facebook messenger. This continued for a month or two, all the while being oblivious to the fact that we both liked one another. Our first outing together, we visited a small coffee shop in Galveston. The few times Robin had seen me at work, I looked rough; wearing my hairnet and all. So I dressed up nicely, making it known that I dressed up only to take a work ID photo (not to impress him or anything). My thought was that if he liked me, he'd be dressed up a little to impress me too... right? I did all of that overthinking just for him to show up in a free UTMB t-shirt. My immediate thought was, “yeah, there's no way he likes me!" Fast forward to a couple weeks later. We went back to the same coffee shop but this time, everything was different. He dressed up nicer, he opened every single one of my doors, and he even offered to buy my coffee. We went back and forth picking random things to do, and what was only meant to be a couple of hours, quickly turned into a whole day that we didn't want to end. We drove from place to place just to prolong our time together and it was that day we knew we liked each other and finally started dating. From then on out, our love for each other grew deeper as we shared our faith and love for Christ. Since COVID was still pretty bad at this time, we would have "church dates" at our favorite coffee shop, where we would watch sermons together. It seemed like every time we were together, it felt like time got away from us so quickly. We were able to be ourselves and embraced how weird we were pretty early on. We went through quite a few challenging times in our relationship. But we trusted in God to see us through and make a way for us. A little over a year of dating, Robin took me on a date to our favorite coffee shop, Sugar Bean. It was a beautiful sunny day after Christmas. The sun was beaming and I was enjoying every minute of it with the love of my life. But I had this feeling that something was different, aside from Robin acting a little strange (I didn't think anything of it because we can both be a little weird). Usually, we would walk around the pond talking about the type of house we'd like to have one day. Robin asked me to join him on a walk around the pond but things just felt different this time. As we started walking, we soon approached a small gazebo, which we called "our little hut". From a distance I could see it was decorated, and immediately made a joke about someone getting engaged in OUR hut. As we walked a bit closer, I saw a picture of us hanging. When I looked at Robin, his face said it all. Making our way down the walkway, tears instantly rolled down my cheeks as I began to process what was happening. He was choosing me... After he finished reflecting back on everything that lead up to this moment, Robin got down on one knee and asked me to spend forever with him. Of course I said yes! From the moment we met in that med room to the day we got engaged, our relationship has been one big testament of God's goodness and faithfulness in our lives. Now that we're getting closer to saying I do, we can hardly contain our excitement for the journey that God has set before us.