Steven & I met at MacArthur High School. He remembers meeting me the summer before senior year and will never let me live it down the fact that I don’t remember. We started talking our senior year in 2011 since we had two classes together. We were polar opposites, especially in high school. Steven was on the football team and a total class clown always getting in trouble. I was vice president of our school environmental group and a teacher’s pet. Every single morning Steven would get up to throw away his trash from breakfast and used it as an excuse to try to talk to me. Also, Steven and a classmate would always playfully bully me to get my attention. We dated briefly in high school and then officially got together in May of 2013 and have been together since. After years of applying to get his dream job as a police officer, Steven finally got the call from Dallas PD in September 2018. We moved to Dallas into our first apartment together and Steven started the police academy. On May 31, 2019 Steven graduated from the police academy and officially became a Dallas Police Officer! Surrounded by both of our parents, Steven proposed shortly after graduating. It was a special moment for us both because after years of applying, sleepless nights studying, and our first time in a new city, he finally completed his goal. We’re so excited to take this journey surrounded by all our loved ones and finally get married after 8 years together!