I was on a dating website looking for my future soulmate and I came across the profile of Jessica and I thought she looked like someone I wanted to chat with and get to know so after she saw mine and sent me a message I wrote back and we sent messages back and forth for about a week and soon we realized it would develop into more then a friendship. It was like we clicked instantly. Soon after that we started talking in messages on Facebook and the rest is history and we have been together ever since!!

We both knew after being together bout 6 months of being together we were meant to be married. I wanted to be together at least a year before I proposed. I was thinking of dates I could propose and her birthday was coming up in December 2016 and I had drill that weekend before her birthday. I originally planned on asking her on her birthday but then an idea popped into my head. Why not ask her at my Christmas dinner party at drill?? Some guys asked me about it and the more I thought about it the better it sounded so I asked my leadership about it and they were on board with it. So during the awards part of the dinner my time came and I asked her to stand in front of me. I said what I wanted to tell her and knelt and popped the question. She was blown away!! So here we are engaged and loving every day since!! See you on July 8, 2017 in West Concord MN for our big day!!!!