Mark and I met February 24th 2013 at the "Blue Ridge mill pub and restaurant" at about 2:30pm just after Sunday brunch. I was working as a waitress and mark came in for lunch after finishing work early. the cook I was working with at the time was Greek and very vocal and we had just finished dealing with some problem customers, and the cook was shouting at me while I was trying to take marks lunch order. mark then asked me if I needed him to "punch his lights out", sparking and endless conversation between us. I remember feeling at ease in his presence. Once mark then came to pay for his meal he then left me his phone number on the back of his receipt, the next day (with a little convincing form my friend and then roommate) I called him and we went on our first date that night.

mark and I had agreed to keep things casual between us, until we decided to move in together and shortly after became pregnant with our first baby and very sadly lost that baby just before my birthday in January. we had a bit of tension between us for a while but things did quickly get better for us and we then celebrated 1 year together.

a few months latter we discovered we were once again pregnant. as we all know Chayne was born on December 24th 2014 at 29weeks+6days weighing in at only 2LBS 13OZ. His early entrance was probably the most dramatic part of our lives thus far. being pre-mature he had a long road to being healthy enough to come home, luckily he still came home early only spending 6weeks in the hospital coming home weighing 4LBS 8OZ.

after 9 longs years of waiting mark finally asked me to marry him on December 24th 2022 (Chayne's 8th birthday).

we could not me more exited to share this day with all our friends and family.