While our story may include "love at first sight", it wasn't a mutual feeling. Tyler and I work together, so on the first Friday Jeans Day, when Tyler showed up in his wrangler jeans and boots, you could say I was in love to begin with. It may have taken Tyler a couple of months to feel the same way however.

I was new to Dubuque, and the area so Tyler agreed to help my find the best barbecue in the area for our first date. If you had met me before Tyler, when asked about love, I would bet you would know my response, No way will I ever get married. However, I still remember to this day coming home from our first date, saying to my roommate, I will marry that boy someday.

Tyler would say that he fell in love with me months after we started dating, however I would beg to differ. Tyler and I started dating in early August 2018 and I would join him and his family that Labor Day for a weekend of fishing in what has become our favorite place to visit. In the middle of the Chippewa Flowage, I caught a 4'12" walleye, on a tiny little ice fishing jig. He might not admit it, but that day was the day Tyler knew I was the one.

Since then we've been on numerous fishing trips, hunting trips, family vacations, and each of them with memories we'll never forget. Tyler and I feel unbelievably grateful to have found each other as we share our values, family moments and most importantly our faith.

I would be remise if I didn't share the most important person of our love story. Not only is he the center of our life, he's also the one that helped Tyler propose.

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