Sweater Weather Wyoming Lifestyle Shoot

“I was working a concert event and that is the first time we saw each other. As he describes it “I was leaving with my buddy and on my way out I looked over and saw this girl with eyes that stopped me in my tracks and knew I had to say hi. I walked over, ordered a beer and told her she had beautiful eyes. I asked her what her name was and then walked away and threw my beer away without taking a sip. I just needed to meet her” Fast forward a few weeks and he started showing up at work, neither of us put two and two together yet that we had met a few weeks prior but both knew we had seen each other before- we remembered the eyes. Eventually he asked me for my number and would text me here and there to go out with friends and watch football or baseball. My schedule was crazy with graduate school and working two jobs so I continued to tell him that I couldn’t make it (which was true!) but he stayed persistent. A night finally opened up where we could get together and it was supposed to be a group event but everyone else bailed, so it ended up being an impromptu first date…the best, last first date either of us had ever been on. We both love sports and went to watch what ended up being the final game of the world series- we didn’t watch a single play of the game because we were lost in conversation. Both of us have previously dealt with toxic relationships that lasted years and we had taken the last few years to really focus on ourselves and our relationship with God as our foundation. I was perfectly fine with waiting as long as it takes to find a man that reminds me of my Dad and he was happy where he was in life. We went on a second date the night after the first and knew that we had found our person. We both learned how little time means in the grand scheme of life and within a few weeks felt as though we had known each other forever. We both love to travel and for our first Christmas he booked us a trip to Jackson Hole where I found Adrian on Instagram. I knew this would be a trip to remember so booked a photography session for our last night there. He was just as excited as I was and throughout the whole session we had such a great time. Who doesn’t love to travel and take photos with their person? One thing we take away from us as individuals and as a couple is the importance of knowing yourself and loving yourself. The world is already trying to tell us who we need to be and where we need to be, but slow down and take in every season of your life whether you’re single or have been married for years. Both of our parents have been married for 40+ years, so we have been extremely fortunate to have great examples of what a healthy relationship looks like; the most important relationship you can have is with yourself and when you work on that, life becomes a lot more clear and you know what the right decisions are for yourself. We both worked really hard to get to where we are and feel so confident in God’s plan and how he led us to one another at exactly the right time.”