It all started with a basketball player dating a cheerleader.....cliche right??? Well, that's not how our story began, I was a JV cheerleader, and he was a Varsity basketball player, but I DID NOT know him from the court lol. It was the year 2006, I met Russ while having a snowball fight with my friends and the football players. I had never seen him until that day he came towering over me with a snowball threatening to ruin my freshly done wet set (iykyk) I said to him "please don't hit me I don't know you, I'm playing with them" as I pointed to football players, his response to me was SO!!!!(if you know Russ, then you know exactly how that came out) I can't confirm or deny if he did ruin my hair but after that I didn't interact with again until the spring. It was the beginning of spring, and when the weather got warm "The High" let out was the place to be, Russ being Russ was outside after school having girls sign a t-shirt so I decided to sign that I was single! (Was I shooting my shot??? Hmmm???) any way after that day we would flirt in the halls, and one day he carried my books and walked me to class, and I was sold lol. We share a close friend who we both told we were interested in each other. We talked for a few months and in Oct. 2007 we became boyfriend and girlfriend. We dated for the remainder of our years in high school, we graduated together, went off to college and became a long-distance relationship. That was hard at first, but we survived thanks to the Skype and ooVoo era, visiting him for his games and falling asleep on the phone. We welcomed our first child together in 2013, got our first apartment together 2015, we were a family of 3 until 2018 when we welcomed our 2nd child. We purchased our home in 2019, welcome our 3rd and FINAL child in 2021. We have grown from kids to adults together, we have grown through so many phases of life and now were here at the beginning of forever. We are so excited to share this moment with you and we can't wait to see everyone on our special day!