It's finally here!!

We met at a mutual friend's house during a small birthday party. Both of us had later found out that we decided to go at the very last minute, with nothing better to do. We didn't really notice each other; There weren't "fireworks" or anything like that. It was after a couple of days when we started messaging each other on Facebook that the chemistry was undeniable. We pretty much instantly clicked from there. It was fate for us to get together for sure!

In May of 2016 we went to Atlantic Beach in North Carolina. It was our first vacation and the first time Steven had ever even seen the beach. It was the perfect romantic vacation that we had been needing. We spent a lot of time on the beach, we went to an aquarium and did some mini golf, and we went to a few little restaurants. One of the neat restaurants we went to was called Rucker John's. It had a really pretty fountain outside where people had been throwing in coins to make a wish. This fountain is where I threw in a coin and wished that Steven would ask me to marry him on the beach within the next couple of nights. Somehow he knew that's what I wished for, and he apologized that the beach isn't where he would be proposing because he didn't have his finances in order yet and couldn't afford the perfect ring that he said I deserved. Six months later on my birthday, Steven surprised me when we were having dinner at HuHot in Columbia. He gave me a birthday card with this cute love note in it and got down on one knee to ask me to be his wife. I remember exactly what he said, "Please marry me."