As many of you know, Eli and Logan were very active in FFA in high school. Little did they know, they would fall in love and be with each other forever. Eli and Logan were best friends and he picked on her all the time, of course boys and the way they flirt. Everyone kept asking Logan if she had a crush on Eli, of course, like any other girl would say, she would say "ew, no he's my best friend!" Logan's parents kept asking her and her twin sister, Autumn, which one he liked, haha. Well, Ag Day 2018 came around and Logan and Eli were inseparable that entire day, which then led to fall break so they would not see each other. Autumn kept asking Logan "are you sure you don't have a crush on Eli?" Of course, Logan kept denying it, until one night over fall break they were on FaceTime and Autumn came in and heard them talking. Which of course sisters being sisters, Autumn said "HA I KNEW YOU LIKED HIM!" Eli still did not know Logan liked him and he heard her say that!! That then lead into a conversation with Eli asking if it was true and Logan told him yes, but Logan was so scared of their friendship being ruined that she didn't want Eli to know in case he did not feel the same. After several days of talking pretty much 24/7, they came to the conclusion that they would take a shot at it and Eli asked Logan to be his girlfriend on October 10, 2018 and the rest is history.

If you know Logan, you know she can not keep her mouth shut to save her life! So of course any suspicion she had, she had to say something...oops. So Logan's family does a family Gatlinburg trip every year and it is a trip they look forward to every year. Logan just knew it would be the perfect place for him to propose. So as they are loading up the car and Eli asks Logan, "Can you back the car closer to the door?" So she says sure and goes to move the car, but in her head all she is thinking is "oooo he is grabbing the ring." Of course, she can not keep her mouth shut and looks at him and says "Couldn't forget the ring could ya?" Eli then convinces Logan that it is in fact not happening this weekend and he just didn't want to have to carry his bag to where Logan's car was parked. They get to the cabin on Thursday and start planning the things they wanna do over the long weekend. They have began to make going to Cade's Cove a tradition now, so they ask Logan's sister, brother, and sister-in-law if they want to go with them and they say yes. So they plan to leave the cabin by 5 AM Sunday, January 15, 2023, which is the normal time they usually go. They get in the car and everyone is ready to go and Eli has been waiting in the car since 4:45, and then he looks at us and goes "Ah, I need to go get a water!" He comes back with four waters "just in case anyone else needed one." They have one spot they always stop at Cade's Cove and it is the Elijah Oliver cabin. It's about a half mile hike in to get to the cabin. When they get to the cabin they all walk around to look at it and then everyone else wants to take a picture in front of the cabin, so they do. Then Eli wants to take a picture with Logan in front of the cabin, which keep in mind Eli hates taking pictures, but they take one anyways. Since Logan is so short, her head is right against Eli's chest and she hears "thump, thump, thump..." and of course she says "hmmmm why's your heart racing?" Eli then says "I just hiked up a mountain" and walks away and then turns back and says "Logan it's not gonna happen if you are expecting it." Well, Logan thought they were all done looking so she started walking back down the mountain back to the car. At this point, she was mad at herself for saying anything because she just knew she had ruined the moment. About half way through the trail there is an old barn, they all stopped to look at it and Logan wanted to tell Eli sorry for ruining what she thought was the moment but as she was hugging him, he dropped to his knee and asked her to marry him. Eli does not cry often. Logan is pretty sure she has only seen him cry once before in the four and half years they have been dating, and when he looked at her while he was proposing she saw him starting to tear up so she started bawling. So Logan may have ruined the initial plan, but Eli still caught her off guard.