Ohhh where do I begin.. We have known each other since riding the school bus! We went to the same elementary, high school & church but did not start dating until nearly a decade after graduation!..not your typical high school sweethearts. After high school, I attended college at USD studying Dental Hygiene for 4 years and then moved to Sioux Falls afterwards for work. Joe went into the military following high school as a USMC Marine for 5 years and returned back home in 2016 to then attend LATI in Watertown for Aviation Mechanics. There was something special about Joe. Once he returned home, I would randomly run into him in public. I saw him in Sioux Falls once in 2017, 2018, 2019..I decided enough is enough; I had to reach out! We reconnected in the Fall of 2019 & this is where our love story really began!

Joe & I had lunch at the Kirkeby family farm South of Clark on a Sunday end of May 2020. We took a pickup ride through the fields afterwards. He stopped and had me 'check if a gate was closed' then got out of the pickup after me. Little did I know, I turned around and he was down on one knee and asked to spend the rest of our lives together?! It was a perfect, sunny day in the middle of the country with just the two of us (and the dogs in the back of the pickup, of course). I wouldn't have it any other way. We now currently live at the farm where we got engaged!