Mickey and I have known each other since middle school. He and I are actually in a photo with our friends dating back all the way to about eighth grade. Our real start begins around March of 2014. He was great friends with my best friend at the time and she and I would get to lunch early just so I could talk to him. I, of course, tried to wear cute clothes just to catch Mickey's attention. The more we went to talk to him, the closer we got. We eventually exchanged Snapchats (yes, I know... but we were only 15!) and talked almost daily. We told each other "I love you," and constantly flirted, I only hoped he would ask me to be his girlfriend. Fast forward to football season of that year when I went to watch him play and we took one of our first pictures together. I am not 100% where this falls into the timeline, but I did in fact tell him I liked him before he told me (just a little flex). Anyways, I waited and waited and according to him he had planned to ask me to be his girlfriend after his first football game, but it didn't work out. He ended up asking me on the first day of our sophomore year, August 25, 2014 and the rest is history. I actually told him several days ago that I always knew that I would marry him. Our story has more twists and turns that I have enough room or time to write, but just know that it is one of the greatest stories I have had the privilege to experience. Just know that the past 7+ years have been some of the most fantastic of my life. We have grown up together, learned together, laughed, cried, been angry, happy... I will forever love Mickey Tuttle with my entire heart.