you are the peanut butter to my jelly

our love story

Stephen and I met, what seems like many years ago, at Patrick Henry High School in Architecture class... little did we know God's plan of how He would bring us together later using this commonality.  We joke about him remembering me as the teacher's pet and Stephen was just the weird Russian kid in the back! Our story really started summer of '16 when Stephen decided to message me on Instagram about HGTV and Fixer Upper.

That small conversation led to the best years of our lives growing and changing in ways neither of us ever expected could happen. If I'm being honest, I think both of us would say that we knew this was different from our very first date and that's where our future together began both then and where he proposed a year later.  It was our anniversary and we had been planning to go back to the same restaurant as our first date so Stephen picked me up and once we arrived he told me we had to wait for our reservation so we were going for a walk by the water. Once