As you might know, we have a bit of a crazy story. We grew up going to the same schools. I, Brittany, almost always had a crush on Nick (along with all the other boys). I was a bit boy crazy back then. Nick never seemed to notice me, always asking my friends out, instead of me (yes, he will probably disagree, but I know better 😝). Senior year, I finally got to him and we would skip class to go down to the woodshop and makeout in Frank's office. That didnt last long, we went our seperate ways.

Eventually, five years after graduation, we finally met again. I was talking to one of his friends (oops) and he invited me to a fire at Nick's new house. My cousin was in town, but I told her we HAD to go because I wanted to see Nick.... I walked in the door to his house and I felt like I ran into a wall! He walked around the corner and I lost my breathe, I couldn't talk, and I'm sure my face was more red than a tomato! I couldn't keep my eyes off him the rest of the night! He was talking about how he wanted to find a girl that was dependable, hard-working, and some other stuff and I kept raising my hand and pointing to myself.  I must have finally got through to him because he asked me out on a date for the following weekend!! Woohoo!

We started dating that night and had a good six months of dating before I got scared and ran away! He was wanting something serious and I was not.

We didn't talk for six months, until I called him because I had wrecked my car and needed him to fix it, he's the best mechanic I know! I remember I was so nervous to call him, because I knew he was still heartbroken. But he answered and came to look at the car! We were all business until he took off his sunglasses and I saw his "stupid" brown eyes (I call them stupid because I've always been a blue eye fan, but his eyes are the prettiest eyes I have ever seen). I remember him leaving and me telling my mom, "I'm in trouble." I knew I couldn't stay away from him and I still wasn't ready for anything serious.

A few days later I dropped my car off at his house and he drove me back to my mom's, I told him to stop at the church down the street because I didn't want my time with him to end. We ended up going on a dinner date and had a great time!

I was going through some stuff and I went for a real long drive one night, he kept calling me and eventually convinced me to come over. I beat him to his house and was crying in my car. He told me to come in, and wouldn't let me leave because I was a mess. That was it. I, literally, never left after that! I was spending every night at his house and eventually (officially) moved in a couple months later.

It's been a roller coaster since then with my emotions but we have grown so much together and he's the most amazing man that I've ever met!!

He bought my ring back in December 2019. We went to JC Penney's to look at rings, I actually picked out his mom's ring set, which was $300. I wasn't completely sold on it so I asked to keep looking. We went into Kay, and when I tried on my ring, my jaw dropped! He knew he was in trouble then! He will never let me live it down now because it was expensive! Oops! 😊

I wore the ring off and on the following six months when finally, I wore it out to a birthday party and a girl asked if we were engaged, I said no, I just liked wearing the ring. He did not like that answer. When we got home that night, he asked if I wanted to keep the ring on and I said yes, so he took it from me and got on a knee, and asked me to marry him. I said, "Okay, yes." (July 11, 2020)

About 6 months after getting engaged, we broke up. I knew that I needed to get some things straight in my head and our relationship needed some work before we got serious.

The following year (2021), we both did some soul searching, I went to Massachusetts to live on a sailboat and he let a family move in with him. We kept in touch everyday and kept each other updated with what we were working on. Things were not easy, not at all, but we both knew we wanted each other.

On Christmas Eve 2021, Nick asked me to be his girlfriend again. On our should have been wedding day, April 13, 2022, I told him I wanted the ring back, he said he wasn't going to propose again, because he only wanted to propose once in his life. So I shrugged, put the ring back on, he said I couldn't ever take it off again, and we decided we were doing this for good this time.

Our story is a bit of a crazy roller coaster but I wouldn't have it any other way! It's ours!