In high school I was always close with one of Alex’s close friends, Jaycee. I always had the bigggggggest crush on Alex and would always talk to Jaycee and ask her when she was going to set me up with him. Then randomly me and my friend Lindsey got invited to hangout with a group of people at Alex’s. And from that night we started hanging out allll the time. We hung out almost everyday. Alex had planned to be moving with his parents that summer to Alaska, so we weren’t really sure what was going to happen once he left. He was gone for a month or so and before I knew it I was on a plane going to Alaska as well. I spent about a month there and we decided that we were actually going to continue to date even being thousands of miles away. Within 6 months of him being gone, he thankfully came home and we have been together ever since!

Over the years we had mentioned here and there about getting married, nothing ever really into depth. Once we found out I was pregnant the topic of getting married would get brought up a lot more often, but I was very adimate on not getting married just because I was pregnant. To me that was just so cliche and not how I imagined it happening. We were planning Cora’s first birthday and getting engaged was the last thing I was thinking about happening. After setting up for Cora’s birthday party we were heading home to what I had no idea would be the best night ever. Alex had everything planned out with the help of my best friend Casey. He had all of his “props” ready and Casey set everything up while we were setting up for the party. Rose petals and candles lead through the house which was filled with balloons that each had a photograph of me and Alex from the past 6 years, which lead up to candles saying “Marry Me?”. I couldn’t even speak because I was crying so bad lol