Our story is not one for the ages, but an interesting one none the less.

How we met...

I was a young man who had recently moved to Burlington, NC from New Rochelle, NY, but she has lived in North Carolina her whole life. Her best friend had told her about a guy who she might be interested in. Telling her that he was from New York and that he was funny, then proceeding to show her a video of him talking while he was being followed home by a stray dog coming from Sheetz. They started talking and eventually met for their first date. She picked him up from where he was stay at with his cousin and aunt. The first thing she noticed was the black peacoat that he was wearing and that he was taking out the garbage, both being nervous and eventually getting our hello's out of the way, their first date was ready to begin.

I swear I'm only adding in this part for comedic relief. The details of the first date are still a little sketchy to me because I swear for our first date, we went out to eat at Steak and Shake, but she swears we went out to eat at Hardies, but I will let her have that one because I really cannot remember. The part I do remember is that after we ate, we went bowling. I remember this distinctly because she beat me and did not let me forget it lol.

SOME TIME HAS PASSED...

Where do I begin. That's right WE HAD OUR FIRST CHILD!!!! We had a beautiful baby girl named Aviana. This was the first child for the both of us and neither of us knew what we were doing at first, but with the knowledge of her mother and watching my older brother raise his kids, we somehow made it work, and she is still here today lol. The following year we found out we was having another child; we had a handsome son named Kaiden. Now with a boy and a girl our family was complete, but that still is not the end of our story.

DARK DAYS AHEAD...

What can I say, not all stories can be sunshine and rainbows. At the end of August 2021, I woke up in the hospital not knowing what had happened to me. A few days prior I was on vacation with the family, once we returned, I was in bed taking a nap and the next thing you know it, I was surrounded by paramedics and being rushed to the hospital. This when I found out I was a type 2 diabetic and suffering from congestive heart failure which cause almost all of my vital organs to start failing, but by the grace of GOD I am still here today. I spent a month in the hospital recovering while she held the household down, raising two kids working and visiting me every day in the hospital. All couples go through fights, and we have had our fair share but knowing that she was down for me and there every step of the way during this hard time in my life I knew that she was the one for me.

THE PROPOSAL...

Time to talk about the proposal. After work for about a week I was visiting jewelry stores to look at rings and I finally found the one when I went to Kays. Now all that was left was to plan the perfect proposal. All I can say is planning the perfect proposal never goes as planned, but I did have something in mind, but nothing went according to plan. I remember one day we was out on a date night and the day was just prefect and on the way home something in my soul just said, "propose to this woman". I had hid the ring inside of box I had in our close and instead of having some grand plans set in motion, I got down on one knee in my kitchen and asked her to be my fiancé in front of our children and her mother and grandmother. She said yes and the rest was history.

Currently Planning...

We are now coming up on our first year of being engage and planning our wedding for next year. The stress of planning a wedding is something I don't wish on my worst enemy, but I am excited I get to marry my best friend. We cannot wait to be able to celebrate this most special day with us next year, until then space cowboy....