So you want to know how it happened?

We met at the Honor Academy in 2005. We both worked in Acquire the Fire Operations. I was the office butterfly, and he was the guy that enjoyed blowing things up.

After I left the HA, Nate stayed on for another year. He traveled around with the ministry team to each event. Oddly enough still blowing things up as a pyrotechnician. :-)

During this year we started talking more and more. By the time he was done with his internship and moved back home we were talking about once a month. Somewhere along the line we made an agreement to talk to each other once a month just to stay in touch....well that turned into once every two weeks, then every week.....and then believe it or not we started talking every day. :)

I secretly was interested in him for about a year....but NEVER thought he'd be interested in me...though that obviously changed!

At the time, I was pretty discouraged because I knew that he really liked this other girl. He would always talk about her and ask me for advice about this potential relationship.... I was just at the point where I was going to give up when I decided to make a trip to Minnesota.

I didn't really want to go because I was afraid my little heart would be broken... but it wasn't!!!

It was the first time I had seen Nate in about a year and a half. We were standing outside in the Perkins parking lot at 2:30am. He had just ended his shift at work. He didn't really say much...and I was thinking.... ok, we're just friends. We went inside and I had mini pancakes....I forget what he had. I was totally convinced that he was NOT interested, until about two days later when we were in a store and he asked me marry him (jokingly).

The next night, he sat me down and told me how amazing he thought I was and that he wanted to pursue me as more than a friend....it was a dream come true... and still is!