Our love story

Everyone has a beautiful love story, of course ours is my favorite!

Just shy of a year ago, I was getting ready to sing at my friend's wedding. After I set up my piano and made sure everything was working as it should be I went upstairs to see her before the wedding. I talked with her briefly because obviously it was her wedding and she had much more on her mind than gabbing with me, so I started to head back down to my piano. She stopped me before I got down the stairs and told me there was someone I had to dance with. Now, I don't do well with dancing with strangers! I feel all awkward and uncomfortable...ya know it's just kind of weird. Anyway, because she was the bride and it was her day...and with everything else going on I thought she would forget ;) I told her I would do it. The wedding was beautiful and it was time for the reception. I kept wondering who she was talking about and instead of asking (so that I wouldn't have to dance with the poor boy) I just looked around myself trying to figure out who it was. I noticed all of the groomsmen kept nudging one of the other groomsmen and coaxing him to do something. I thought maybe it was him, the groomsmen. Then, being myself, I thought if it is him, I won't be his type! He is way too handsome for me! Next thing I knew, towards the end of a song, that groomsmen asked me to dance. As he asked me to dance, the groom came over, not knowing he had just asked me, and said, "You two, go dance...together! It's my wedding, so you have to do what I say!" So we did. Needless to say, that dance, changed everything and began the rest of our lives!

I had prayed for God to send me my husband. I prayed that he would be a man of God, a protector, provider, I prayed that he would love God more than he loved me...and he is all of those things! On my way to that wedding, I was talking to God and with frustration I said, "Will you please just send me my husband! I don't want to do this anymore!" I was upset that I was singing at another wedding that wasn't mine. And wouldn't you know it, I met my husband that night and he was everything and so much more that I asked God for!

Being patient is hard. Praying for things after you have prayed for the same thing for so long is hard, but for Brent and I both, God gave us the desires of our hearts! It's all in his time and it turns out his timing is PERFECT!

Before he proposed we discussed it and prayed about it A LOT! We were afraid of what our families would say because it was so fast. His parents' answer was that they already knew this was coming. My mom's answer was that her and my stepdad had been praying about it for about two weeks, because they already knew too! :) Brent asked me to marry him a short three months later, up on the mountain in the shooting shack...that whole "when you know, you know" thing...was definitely true in our case. Now we are busy planning our wedding and on August 2, 2014, that handsome groomsmen will officially become my husband!

Since then we have all been one big, happy family! God is faithful! He has blessed Brent and I way more than we will ever deserve!