We're getting married

His sister invited me to her small birthday party dinner with a few friends, and I didn't think much of it.. In hindsight, I should have known something was up. Her & I hadn't hung out in two years previous to that intimate birthday party dinner of all her closest friends. Frank knew she invited me with the intentions of him & I meeting. The dinner was horrible for me, I had just gotten my expander set in my mouth, so I didn't know how to talk without a terrible lisp, or how to chew. I also had a cold and was very sniffly. And on top of that the restaurant was so loud. Frank rapid fire asked me questions over the next few hours, and I gave short, lipsy answers & felt like crying every time I had to talk. That didn't stop him though. Over the course of 8 months, he pursued me, I said no, we went our separate ways for a little bit, and randomly started talking again because of the release of a new Post Malone album... Haha I know, classy. But we never stopped talking after that!

After we started chatting and hanging out again, it didn't take long at all for me to finally realize I wanted to be with him too. He started winning my heart by using my love of plants against me right from the beginning. He asked me to be his girlfriend with a present of three adorable succulents. Much to Franks dismay... only two of the three are still with us. 🙄😉 Though he has added many more to my collection over the years ☺️

Scarlet knew I wanted her to take our engagement pictures once we got engaged, but she hadn't taken pics in a bit so she wanted to go out a few times and do some shoots to “practice.” For two weeks, her and I tried to set something up. It kept having to get canceled because Jacob was working late or Scarlet didn’t feel good, but it turns out it was because the jewler kept pushing off the arrival date of the ring! Anyways, we go out to Cougar Park, one of our favorite spots. We walked around for like an hour and a half going to a few of our favorite areas and taking pictures. We then walked to the end of this mini peninsula. We did some golden hour pics on the sand bar next to it and went back up to the top of the peninsula to get some good angles. Which also happened to be the first spot Frank and I sat for hours and talked where I finally started to realize I wanted to be more than friends. When we got up there Frank started being stiff as a nail (mind you he was actually being very comfortable and cute in pics up till that point.) I started getting suspicious when I had to kick his feet to get him to turn so I could hug him from the side for a picture, only to discover his shirt getting verrrryy sweaty! Haha. Then, to top it off Frank started telling ME what to do in the picture. “Turn around, stand like this, I’m going to hug you from behind, I think that would be a cute picture.” as I make the smart remark, “this is going to look like a pregnancy announcement photo..” After Scarlet took a couple pictures Jake snuck up behind us and gave Frank the ring, and Frank just dropped straight to his knee behind me, I wasn’t sure if I was supposed to turn around… But I obviously at that point my suspicions were confirmed. Soooo I turned around and he lost his words.. .. After what felt like hours Frank said “Will…” right as I whispered “are you going to ask me?” which he followed with “marry me?” Perfectly difunctional, just like us. Of course I said yes!