Our Story
Casey and Sarah's Love Story
How We Met
June 28 2003
Casey and I met on June 28th 2003 at a wedding in Eau Claire, Wisconson. It was my step cousin Katie's wedding. Casey used to live across the street from her when he was little before my Uncle Terri married Katie's mom Mary. I was at the reception and it was getting late so I went up to my hotel room to go to bed. My dad's girlfriend Leslie and my cousin Kelly came up and got me up because they said something was suppose to happen at midnight,turns out that is just what they said to get me out of bed and party a while longer. But then somthing did happen, I met Casey. We talked for a while and then started dancing. While we were dancing one of my cousins and few of Casey's cousins tried to break up our dancing because of our age differance,[six year differance]it turned out that Casey was 23 and I was 17 at the time. We didn't care, we just kept dancing. After the reception was over we hung out for a couple of hours and learned that we only lived 15 mins away from each other. I thought that I would never see him again, but we did met again the next day at my uncle Terry's house who was having a brunch. We decided to go for a walk and then exchanged numbers. And the rest is history!
Our Lives Together
June 2003-September 2008
Casey and I starting dating mid-summer of 2003. At the time I was 17 and Casey was 23. Most of our family and friends didn't like that idea and sometimes were very hard on us because of our age difference. My parents were concered about my relationship with Casey. So Casey had to met my Mom and Dad before we could go out on any dates. Casey let them know his intentions reguarding my age were honorable. They liked him right away and realized that Casey was really good for me.
For Casey some of his family gave him a hard time mostly because of the age differance also. In the fall of 2003 I would be starting my Seinor year in High School. Right around this time Casey thought it best we seperate for a time but reamin friends. It was very hard on me but I tried to move on. After a month or so I called him up to see how he was because I missed him so much. We ended up hanging out and soon after that we started dating again at the end of October 2003. In December I turned 18 and after that no one really care about our age difference.
In the summer of 2005 I moved in with Casey. Later that year we got our first apartment together. We continued to live together and got another apartment in late 2006. Right around then Casey and I were going through a ruff patch. My dad gave me a yorkiepoo puppy for my Birthday/Christmas which were not until Dec, but the tiny canine was just old enough to removed from it's mother. Not even after a week of having her she got really sick and almost died from a parasite infection. That experience was so hard on both us but it acctually brought us much closer together.
By 2008 we were sick of apartment life and decide to get a house together. We purchsed our first home in September 2008. Some of our family gave us a hard time because we were doing things "out of order". I was also giving Casey a hard tme for not asking me to marry him after 5 and 1/2 years together and the fact that we had just bought a house together. But little did I know he'd been makeing plans all along.
How We got Engaged
November 2008-Present
A few days before Thanksgiving in 2008 Casey and I were at Best Buy tring to decide if we should buy a playstation 3. I was all for it even though I thought "I should get my "ring" first". I didn't say it out loud but Casey did.
He said "I would feel really bad not getting you a ring first. Should we go look at rings?"
I was so excited I almost pulled him out of the store. We decided to go to Wedding Day Diamonds in Maple Grove because that was close to the Best Buy we were at. I was told Wedding Day was really expensive so I was worried about going in there. We had a really bad experience at Hezberg Diamonds at Ridgedale over a year before that. That really scarried us off from looking at rings. When we got to Wedding Day it was around 7:00pm and no one else was there. We were so worried the sales men would "attack" us like at Hezberg. That was not the case.
The sales man that helped us was so nice. He ofered us water or pop which really calmed my nerves. I looked at many rings but didn't find the "one". I was still worried about the prices. There was one I really liked but I thought the prices were too high. Then he showed me the same ring in gold. He said they could accent it with silver (forgot the name for it). The price was affordable and I fell in love with it. However we ended up leaving with out it.
After that I tried to drop hints all over the place about how much I wanted that ring and how I was worried someone else would buy it. I was getting annoying always bringing it up LOL. I thought he might have gone back and gotten it but I really had no clue. Little did I know Casey did go back the next day and before he went into the store he called my Dad to ask for his blessing and my hand in marriage. Because of their work schedules Casey felt bad about not being able to ask my Dad in person, but everything worked out as my Dad of course, said yes.
Weeks later it was around our Birthdays. Mine is on December 18th and Caseys is December 20th. We were planing on going to The Olive Garden, our favorite resturant. I wasn't feeling good so we decided to go the next day to celebrate both our birthdays, The 19th was a Friday and Casey worked till 8:00pm. By the time he got home it was after 8:30. We needed to get going because the Olive Garden was only open for another hour or so. We were about to leave the house when Casey told me to sit down at the dinning room table and STAY THERE!. I heard him diging around in the next room. I then knew what was about to happen. I was so excited. I tried really hard to stay still. Casey came in the room and told me how much he loved me and wanted to be with me then all of a sudden he got down on one knee and said "Will you marry me?" I said yes! gave him a big hug and we kissed. Then we were off to dinner!
