He says: I met her at the Cowboy, a bar and swing dancing club. She was sitting on a buckrail fence with a purple light shining on her curls. I asked her to dance! She says: I snuck my dog Willow into his dorm hallway and we started talking because he came to see the dog. I thought that he was a really awesome guy and wanted to get to know him better.

He says: I was super nervous and waiting for the right moment. The sun was going down Christmas Day and I was running out of time. Once the family was done with the Christmas activities, I took her outside, got down on one knee, and asked her to be my wife. She says: I took Sam to my grandparent's place in Washington state to celebrate the holidays. On Christmas night, he snuck me away from my family to take a "walk." I knew he was going to ask me as soon as he closed the door and started talking. He took me out to my Grandma's old barn that overlooks Oregon's Mt. Hood. He knelt down in the mud at night and asked me to spend the rest of my life with him. That was the easiest "Yes!" I ever said!