We met the summer before our Junior year of high school while working at McDonald's (really, where all great love stories start, right?). We started working together in the summer of 2012, but it wasn't until that winter that we started working together more and getting to know each other as we worked the closing shifts together. After shifts, when it had snowed, all of us working would frequently have snowball fights. These snowball fights quickly turned into Jared seeing how easily he could throw Katelyn into the snow. This eventually led to Katelyn loosing her shoe in the snow... like a weird hick-town/fast-food version of Cinderella, if you will. Our first time together outside of work consisted of us--well mostly Jared--spending an hour vainly looking for Katelyn's lost shoe the following day while Katelyn sipped on hot chocolate. Following this, Katelyn requested to borrow Jared's then-super fancy Bluetooth speaker, which he only agreed to if Katelyn agreed to go out with him the following Friday. Thus, led to our first date at the New London movie theater, seeing "Warm Bodies." And we've been an "old married couple" ever sense!

While on our yearly trip to Fort Myers, Florida, we went to a beach in Sanibel, Florida. In a tiki-hut gazebo that overlooked the beach, Jared got down on one knee and popped the question!