Our story began in the 1960s. Just kidding but actually not kidding. Our grandparents were close friends and moved their families to Collinsville together. Our dads grew up as best friends. Grant’s dad was a groomsman in my parents’ wedding. They even work at the same place still today. We didn’t know each other growing up because we went to different schools. The first time we remember our paths crossing was in 2016 when we worked a Christmas party at our dads’ work. We both went off to college in different directions, but during the summer and winter breaks we both worked at our dads’ work. We would both be rolling in at 7:29 a.m. having to be there at 7:30. My favorite part was getting to talk to Grant on the walk to the building. I messaged him one time a couple years later and asked him about the CrossFit prices at the gym he went to. Then a couple more years went by and I thought about Grant and how I needed to reach out to him by sending a selfie. I remember telling my best friend about it, KK, who also knew of Grant from CrossFit. I was smiling ear-to-ear saying, “Guess who I just Snapchatted!!! Grant Hutchinson!” He left the message on opened… BUT THEN a couple weeks later I got a message from Grant asking if I still went to CrossFit. He knew the answer already, though. I hate CrossFit. We naturally kept the conversation going and planned to finally hang out. We first hung out at J Farley’s in Claremore since I went to RSU at the time and it was an every-weekend hangout spot. That is also when we found out we have a lot of mutual friends, just never in the same place at the same time. We both love Mexican food, so our first date was at El Tequila. I think I was already in love with him, but too soon to say, right??? He asked me to be his girlfriend on November 16, 2021. The best 2 years went by and on September 2, 2023 he took me golfing and asked me to marry him! And of course I said yes!

Taylor Swift has a song called Invisible String. In the song it says:

And isn’t it just so pretty to think

All along there was some

Invisible string

Tying you to me?

I have always thought that we had an invisible string tying us together. The invisible string theory is the idea that you and your soulmate are "connected through an invisible string or a thread" and it’s in God’s plan that you'll be together one day.

G&R

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