Lynden and I met on an online dating site in June of 2014. Our first phone conversation was 4+ hours long and I felt so bad because Lynden had to be at work just a few hours after we got off the phone. I was living in New Mexico at the time and he was living in Virginia so the 2 hour time difference meant countless very late nights on the phone for him.

A few short weeks after our first phone conversation Lynden flew to New Mexico to meet me in person for the first time over 4th of July weekend. Followed up with a trip to Richmond to visit him the next month.

In November 2014 we actually broke up. Distance, career paths, and life at that point just made it appear to be the best thing given the circumstances. Oddly enough that was also the start of the friendship that is the foundation of our relationship that has led us to spend our lives together. We truly became best friends in the 8 months that followed. The 4+ hour long phone calls became a weekly sometimes daily occurance.

In July 2015 I flew to DC for work and invited Lynden up to spend the weekend. I genuinely missed him but really wasn't sure if there was more to it being we hadn't seen each other in 8 months. I got to meet his sister Kisha and her husband Erren that weekend as well. Following that trip was the convo that maybe this really is something worth holding onto.

September 2015 Lynden flew to New Mexico again to visit and to meet my daughter Gianna and my family and a few of my friends. Lynden and my daughter have so much in common from their taste in music, their involvement in band even playing the same instrument, love of Star Wars, Archer and video games. All things I know little if anything about. So needless to say I got ignored a lot that weekend as they chatted it up over these topics. He also got a front row seat to what a life with a lady who has a teenage daughter looks like. As he worked on a project in the hotel room and I got 3 little ladies ready for Homecoming.

November 2015 I flew to Richmond to celebrate Lynden's birthday and meet his parents. Then December Gianna and I spent our first Christmas together in Richmond with Lynden and his family.

In May 2016 I moved to Richmond to attend Esthetician school and Lynden took a position as Principle of KEi Architects and will be transitioning into purchasing the Firm from his mentor.

In December we both flew home to New Mexico for Christmas. With one of the agenda items being Lynden asking my daughter and my parents for their blessing to ask me to marry him. Which the response was " about time" We went together to a local jeweler in Albuquerque and I actually got to design my own engagement ring. Literally a dream!!!!

Lynden proposed at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens on February 11, 2017 and we set our wedding date for November 11th 2017 just a short 9 months away.

G&L

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