Hello lovely person reading this. Katie here! Since you're reading this far down on the page I guess you're curious about David's and my story. Whether you've known us for 10 years, or you just met us this year, you might not know our whole story, because honestly it's hard enough for us to keep it straight and we were there the whole time!

You see, David and my story began way back in 2008 when I first developed a crush on the older new boy at our church. (spoiler alert, it was David.) He was so handsome and funny and confident! But he was three years older than me, and after almost 6 years of being silently, hopelessly infatuated with him from a distance, I gave up of his ever noticing me around age 16.

However, it just so happens that that was exactly around the time when I bought a beautiful, sophisticated new brown dress and wore it to church one day. When David saw me that morning he realized I had grown up right in front of him and had never noticed. From that day on he no longer saw me as 'his friend Rebecca's little sister', but as a young woman. And I had no idea!

Over the next two years we would hang out and talk after church whenever we could, and when I had my heart broken when I was almost 18, David was there to hug me and be there for me during a very hard time. Over time we became best friends, calling on the phone regularly while he was in different places of the country completing his military training and getting to know each other super well without any expectation of anything more than platonic friends. Or at least, so I thought. In the summer of 2015, David came home for a visit and while hanging out he told me that he had feelings for me, and even though he knew I didn't return them, he was willing to wait for me.

And wait he did! It took many months of frustration and heartbreak for him to finally wear me down, and almost a whole two years later I finally said YES on February 25, 2017 to being his girlfriend. It was without doubt the best decision I had ever made up to that point.

The next day, on February 26th, David asked me how long he would have to wait until he could propose. I told him a year. We were engaged on July 16. So I guess his 'wearing me down' skills have improved over the years.

So here we are! Planning our wedding and the rest of our lives together! We're so excited that God has brought us this far on our journey and we can't wait to see what else he has in store for us!

If you haven't seen it though, David and I actually made a whole video on our story that is up on my YouTube channel! So you can check that out for a more full account of our loooong story! :)