The best way to sum up our story is to put it like this: about damn time.


Landon & I took the long, bumpy road to get to the alter. The path that was hard and drug out, but if asked to do it differently, I wouldn’t.


There is so much to appreciate from the lessons learned of doing things the hard way.


I think on this side of the journey we have such a deep appreciation for our love. For the fight it took to make it deeply rooted and firm, and the weathering it is able to withstand now.


I am so grateful for the wild ride, so grateful to be writing this, and completely in awe of the Lord’s grace and mercy to be able to marry this man and be the woman who gets to raise a family with him.


Landon and I first met in 5th grade when I moved to Mineola.


In Middle and High School, we ran in VERY different crowds, only interacting once to take most handsome and most beautiful pictures for the yearbook.


It wasnt until New Year’s (wild coincidence) of 2019 that we saw each other again. At this point, the only reason we went over to his brothers house at all was because a girlfriend of mine thought he was cute.


Many moons later, I found out he asked about me that night (clueless, I missed the cues).


Later in 2019, Landon & I started talking sporadically, eventually leading him to pay a $100 taxi fee to my best friend one night that landed us at the official starting line of our story.


From there, we hit the ground running!


He introduced me to all the Texas Country Redneck things like concerts in sale barns, riding at River Run, rallying, river floating, shooting guns, peeling peas, country bars, and two-stepping.


It truly was the most fun & I have never been the same since.


On the flip side of this, I taught Landon that there’s joy in movie nights in, eating frozen pizza is good for the soul, sometimes no plans are the best plans, walks are not boring, water is sometimes the best drink of choice, and peace of mind is priceless.


Two very different worlds collided, and it was HARD to mesh the two successfully. As a matter of fact, it took us YEARS to do it and do it well (though we still have our days like everyone else).


But, when it clicked, it was the most electrifying and fun start to our forever.


We’ve celebrated so much of this life in bold ways - to start, we rang in the New Year of 2024 as a newly engaged couple.


Then throughout the year, weve taken trips, went to tons of weddings, experienced loss, built a home, raised pups, hosted parties, celebrated friends, loved family, had our sweet little girl, and lived life to the fullest while navigagting a TON of change.


So, we thought it only appropriate to end 2024 with officially becoming THE MACLIN’S, a family of three, on New Year’s Eve!


We want to ring in a new season of life and celebrate all the beautiful things weve weathered and come to know since New Years of 2019 (back where it all started) by throwing the BEST New Year’s party to celebrate all that 2025 and the many years to come will hold!


We are so honored that you are here to celebrate our story and the beautiful things that The Lord makes from the dust, us included.


xoxo, The Soon-To-Be Maclin’s