Hunker down 'cause we have to time travel many, many years ago, back to 2015...

I was the driver and I had my two friends with me, I was driving my friends car. They were having the time of their lives, we were seniors in high-school living life to the fullest. We wound up down at the canal outside of Tiskilwa, my friend messaged Shane, to which he showed up in his well loved two door dodge truck. Mind you I'm in shock and dying of laughter at the situation I'm in. My friend climbs out the passenger window and somehow is long enough to just slide through Shane's driver side window and sit in his truck. Eventually she comes back and Shane and I exchange numbers in case I needed help with my friend. We didn't chat much after that, until the day my friend moved out of her parents house... I loaded up my car at the time, went to leave, she slammed the door, and wouldn't you know it. She broke it (oops sorry mom). End up getting to where she was going to move into and we get ahold of Shane. He comes and fixes it so I wouldn't end up in trouble. After that, we didn't speak much. After a little messaging back and forth, we met up, and had a face to face conversation right back where we first met. He then asked me out, I was self conscious of myself, granted who isn't, and said yes.

Now let's fast forward... we went through so much. Breakups, makeups, hating each other, wanting to be around each other, etc.

Was any of that easy? By all means, no. But, we couldn't be more proud of how far we have finally came and where we are now.

Our saying is, "Always and Forever?" "Forever and for Always." and that is how our story really is. We could never not truly be away from one another, like we were meant to be tied together. We just never knew what we truly needed to do to keep us tied together, until now.

See you soon to finalize the offical us,

Rachel and Shane

R&S