Javi and I both went to Iowa Central. We were both friends with the same person. I saw Javi in the Cafeteria talking to our friend. I ended up asking her for Javis snap but never ended up snapping him. According the Javi, I was the one who kept looking at him, but really it was him. Finally, Javi started snapping me and we talked for a few months till he finally asked me out at AppleBees on March 8th, 2020.

After Javi and I started dating, is when COVID hit. We all had to go home, and with Javi being from Spain, he wasn't able to go home so he went to go stay with one of his college friends in Atlantic.

Javier is from Callosa d'En Sarria, Spain. Javier came to the USA when he was 18 years old. He was on a scholarship for swimming at Iowa Central majoring in Engineering for two years, and later went to Bethel University in Indiana on a swimming scholarship. Javi also went back to get his masters.

Javier has a twin sister, Paula. His dad, Pedro farms. He farms strawberries, avocados, oranges, and many other fruits. His mom, Fani babysits.

Brooklyn is from Sac City. She went to school for Nursing. She currently has her LPN but plans to go back to get her RN in the future.

Brooklyn has 2 sisters, Brianna (21) and Brynn (12), and 2 brothers, Brody (17) and Evan (14). Brooklyn's mom, Brook is a Loan Officer at United Bank of Iowa, and her step dad, Andy has his own business.

Javier always told me that we wouldn't be getting engaged in a long time as Javi would say, "I'm broke". I believed it for the longest time till July 2nd we had a "Fourth of July party" at my moms house as I thought that's what it was. We had family and friends come, Javis parents even came for the surprise. I had a nice white shirt on, and ended up changing into one of Javi's old paint shirts. Everyone kept saying to me, "You're wearing that?" and my sister, Bree kept telling me I needed to do my hair and my make up cause I 'looked homeless". I had no idea why she was being so judgmental on what I looked like or what I was wearing. We (Bree and Jacque) had gone to my moms bathroom to get ready. After we got done getting ready, an hour and a half later, I had realized I was the only one who looked really dressed up (still not knowing Javi was proposing). We went down our lane way and took "family pictures" and I thought it was so weird how everyone was going to watch us take pictures. After we got all the family pictures, Javi said he wanted one with me. That's when I saw a shiny thing, as I thought it was a gum wrapper he was pulling out of his sock as a joke. That's when I realized it was not a fake ring or a gum wrapper, it was real! Javi took my dads ring that he proposed to my mom with and took it in to get it customized. The big diamond was the one my dad picked out, and the rest Javi customized himself (with the help of my sister).

Javi and I bought a house in Odebolt, Iowa. Javi got a job at Gomaco in Ida Grove, Iowa as an Engineer. I am currently a nurse at the clinic in Odebolt. We are excited to start this new journey as home owners, and as a married couple!