Wayne and I spoke once I believe about a year before we actually met... I was visiting my grandparents in Kamloops and they had some of their neighbors/friends over. One of their friends was Julie (Wayne's mom), she came in and asked if I could message her son across the street and make sure everything was okay, I did and never thought anything of it. Fast forward a year and I wanted to do a surprise visit back to see my grandparents... Julie and I started talking and she helped with arrangements to keep it a surprise and said Steve (Waynes dad), and her son were gonna pick me up from the bus station. I started texting Wayne a couple nights before they were going to pick me up and he was a typical teenage boy lol..but sweet. They picked me up, and I barely said a word cause it was my first time meeting either of them. We made it back to my grandparents, and we all hung out for a while but Wayne had planned to leave the next day to go to the coast and visit his best friend (Eli). We continued texting a bit and he planned to meet me at the bus station with Eli when I got back to the coast. They did, and Wayne brought me Tim Hortons which was awesome after the long bus ride... I didn't like Eli when I first met him that night (he knows this lol) but eventually he grew on me. The three of us ended up going to see a movie a few days later before Wayne went back home and we had an awesome time. The next few months we continued texting and talking on the phone lots... meanwhile I was having a really hard time in my school with highschool drama (but it really sucked at the time). I decided to move up to Kamloops with my grandparents to finish school there. I know what you're thinking... I moved there just for him but that was not the case (mom, dad, if you're reading this.. I swear it wasn't for him lol). Him being there was just a bonus since he was across the street and I would already know someone at school. After about three months of living there we started dating (2017) and two years later we went on a roadtrip to the coast to visit Eli again, while we were there I got offered an awesome job at a horse stable, so we decided to move into Elis basement until we got our first apartment in July 2019. We lived there until July 2020 and got a basement suite in Chilliwack, but it ended up being too small so we moved in April 2021 to an almost full house in Maple Ridge with Wayne's brother Tanner, and his girlfriend Brook (my best friend). From there we moved back in with Wayne's parents in April 2022 for a few months while looking for places to buy... We decided BC was way too expensive and we didn't really want to move into northern BC, so we bought our farm in AB! Alberta was also closer to my school for equine/canine body work so it was perfect... And that's it! A little long and all over the place, but worth it.