How We Met

Hello there, my name is Emily and I am a newlywed.

I met my husband Nathan while on Thanksgiving break from college (Go Hokies!) when my dad's truck, which I was driving, broke down on a back road. Lucky for me said back road was only about 10 minutes from my parents farm and that it was the middle of hunting season which meant plenty of good ole country boys riding around in my general vicinity.

When Nathan and I first started dating he liked to say that he came to my rescue that day and gave me a ride to my parents thus sparking my interest and our relationship. But this is how the story really happened...

As soon as the truck shuddered to a stop, I started calling my parents house and my dads cell phone to no avail. So then I called this guy who lived nearby to see if he was in the neighborhood. Unfortunately he wasn't, he was still away at school but his dad was hunting in the area so he called him and his dad stopped by to see if he could get the truck started. He couldn't. By this time a couple of other people from his hunt club had stopped to help as well and one of them gave me a ride to my parent's house where I found dad out in the shop. Crisis avertered, right? Wrong.

My parents land used to be all junkyard but now its part cows, part junk so we have a rollback for transporting junk cars and such. So here dad and I go on the rollback to pick up the pickup (pick up the pickup, haha) and the rollback gets stuck in the mud in the ditch. Good news is we got the green truck started so that we could drive to the house to go get a tractor to pull the rollback out. Then we had to take the tractor back from our house to where the rollback was now stuck. It was quite the process to say the least.

So there I am sitting behind the wheel of the rollback waiting for dad to get the tractor hooked up and I am just randomly going through my phone contacts, thinking to myself, who would think this is funny? I landed on Fitts. (Now in our high school most of the guys were called by their last name so that is how people were known, hence why Nathan was saved in my phone under Fitts.) So I texted him telling him the whole situation which started off a whole conversation and ended with us making plans to go hunting together the next day.

After about 10 minutes of awkwardness (what do you say to somebody you haven't seen since high school?) we just fell into comfortableness. Laughing and talking alternating between comfortable silences. 3 days later I had to go back to school the next day and we were sitting at my parents house watching a movie when Nathan decided that he didn't want me to go back to school single so he asked me to be his girlfriend. And I said yes. That was three years ago.

After a couple set backs with college I finally graduated in June 2011 and landed a job immediately. I was so happy to be home because the whole time Nathan and I had been dating, it had been long distance since Tech was a three hour drive from home. We had only had holidays, weekends and a summer break to be together. Nathan's conditions to get engaged had always been that I had to have finished school and have a job and I had known for a long time that this was the man I was going to marry.

On August 28th we left to go on vacation for a week and Nathan asked me when we got to Myrtle Beach if I wanted to go walk on the beach but I said not tonight because I was tired from the drive. The next morning, he asked again if I wanted to go but I was not willing to get out of bed. Monday afternoon he asked me again to go to the beach and I figured well he has asked me a couple times so I reckon we should go. We got in a little tiff about what time you had to stop paying the parking meters at because he insisted on paying to park when clearly the rules said after 7 was okay. In the end we payed so obviously I don't always get my way.

So we walked the beach for a while looking for shells and then sat down on the sand to watch the sunset. We started drawing silly pictures in the sand and Nathan drew a ring in the sand and asked me if I would marry him with that ring and I told him "I would marry you with any ring honey" to which he proceeded to pull a box out of his pocket, flipped it open and said "well what about with this one?" Needless to say I immediately started crying and when he asked me if I would marry him, I'm pretty sure I asked him if he was serious but I said yes and fireworks started going off. Like literally, fireworks. And no he didn't arrange them but they did work out perfectly. Oh and that parking pass reads 8/29 at 8:29PM which I now have perserved.

Nathan and I became Mr & Mrs on September 15, 2012 and I have loved every minute of it.