Our first date started with me rushing home after soccer practice to get ready because Nick was picking me up in 15 minutes. We went to Starbucks and to my surprise our date consisted of us sitting, sipping our drinks, and talking for four hours. That's when I knew I kind of liked this guy. ;) Nick is by far the cheesiest person I know (he will deny this to his grave). To ask me to be his girlfriend he bought me a double chocolate cupcake (he knew the way to my heart at that point) and put a note on top that read, "I think it would be "sweet" if you would be my girlfriend." How could I say no to a double chocolate cupcake?! For the next five years we continued to learn more about each other, laugh and make many wonderful memories. But my absolute favorite memory is the day Nick asked me to marry him. Our five-year anniversary was coming up in February 2019 and I had asked Nick if he would plan something for this year. He is not much of a planner so I didn't know how well this would go over. To my surprise he said yes! He kept telling me that he had breakfast planned but he wouldn't tell me where we were going. Well, the day finally came, and he told me to be ready for breakfast. He picked me up and we had breakfast and bottomless mimosas (this proves he still knows the way to my heart). After breakfast he told me we were going to pick out my gift which was children’s books for my future classroom! The day was so perfect already and I was so happy with what he planned I wasn’t expecting anything else, but then he told me we were going sledding! We had gone out in the country toward Thompson, ND, where Nick was familiar with for bow practice, and found smaller hills to go sledding down. When we got to the end of the hill I got up and turned around to say something to Nick and he was down on one knee.