We're Getting Married!

It's crazy to think that it's already been 7 years since we met. In a way it feels as if it was just yesterday but it also feels like a life time ago. Kody and I met in college at Adams State University. I honestly had no intentions of even liking him, but here we are today. We started off as friends, and with this friendship there were some benefits! Over the time of our freshman year feelings developed, I defintiely got the feels first, but I never told him, however he tells me he knew the whole time. Fast forward, and at the end of our sophomore year, Kody finally decided to tell me he loved me. Following that we did 3 years of long distance while I finished nursing school in Colorado and Kody came back to Yuma.

Marisa has always loved a pumpkin patch so when she mentioned/forced me to go to Bates Nut Farm, I saw an opportunity I couldn't pass. I'd had the ring since May, and finding the right opportunity in the times of a pandemic were not ideal. As we journeyed to the farm, Marisa per usual was making digs at me the entire way up there as to why we were not engaged yet, I thought to myself, maybe I should wait a little longer. Once we got the patch, getting the ring out of the back of the car was more difficult than I thought it would be. I had placed it in the back of the car in a box, Marisa was being a stage five clinger and wouldn't leave my side. Now finding the perfect spot to propose was the next challenge; we had set up an area, moving these giant pumpkins in to position all for Marisa to say she didn't like the area and didn't want to take a picture there; keep in mind all of these pumpkins weigh over 100lb! Moving on, we find a spot that she is happy with and we take a picture, now my sister Tori had no idea I was about to do this but after the picture she yells, “now pull out the ring!” Moment ruined; Well Marisa loves her pictures so she wanted another one in a different location, but I had to beg her to be in it cause she really just wanted it of herself! She is always making me take a million pictures together but today is the day that she only wanted one of us. Well, she is perched up on the pumpkin and I get down on one knee!