The summer of 2012, while on the bus home from a great weekend with Amanda in Missouri, I texted Mike. He talked about weight lifting and football. I knew it was the beginning of something great. On 06/09/2012, while sitting at the beach, he asked me to be his girlfriend. In the 9 years together we've traveled to Jamaica, Punta Cana, The Caribbean, and Hawaii. We moved out of parent's house, and into our own apartment in October of 2015. We purchased our home together in November of 2017. We adopted the love of our lives in March of 2018. Finally, in February of 2020, Mike got down on one knee and proposed.