Nick and I met on June 12th, 2015 at Quadna Mountain park in Hill City, MN. It was the weekend of their big Mud Nationals Event. Amanda and I went for her birthday weekend, I told her she could pick something for us to do for her birthday. We went up thursday June 11th, but we didn’t get up there until pretty late that night so we just stayed and set up our campsite and had a bonfire. The next morning we got up pretty early and went for a four wheeler ride around the park. Long story short while we were riding our chain snapped and we had to walk 3 miles back to camp, got a ride out to where the wheeler was, picked it up, then went into town to get a chain and went back out riding, then we got a flat tire and we went back to camp. We were trying to fix the flat tire trying to decide what to do when the campsite next to us filled up. We both looked over and saw three guys and a girl. They all came over to see what we were doing to our wheeler. That’s when I saw Nick, I looked at him and I knew right then that he was gonna change my life somehow. We were attempting to get the gril working so we could make dinner when the guys came to ask us if we wanted to go get pizza so  we all went to Grand Rapids and got dinner at Sammy’s Pizza. At Sammy’s we all exchanged snapchat names so we’d be able stay in contact. After we got back to camp Amanda went to take the wheeler for a ride and I couldn't find her so i was going to go walk to find her when Nick asked me if I wanted a ride. So I went to go open the door to his truck and it wouldn't open so i thought it was locked and asked him to unlock his door for me, well unfortunately that truck just didn't like me, so it wouldn't open. Eventually he got it open and we went to look for Amanda and she came back right after we left. Fast forward a few months, Nick and I were the only ones who stayed in contact. Around January 2016 we started getting to know each other better and started planning a time for us to see each other. On April 22, Nick came down to the cities, he picked me up at my house and he took me to Como Zoo. At Como we took a lot of pictures together and talked and saw all the animals and we had a great time together. After Como he took me to the Horse Expo at the state fair grounds. We looked at all the horse trailers being goofy and planning our future trailer. After that we went and walked around Mall of America. The next day he wanted to go to the truck meet but i was so sore from the day before but he really wanted to go so i got up and got ready. I met a couple of his friends and his cousin Brady at the truck meet. After the truck meet he took me to Mill City Museum and we took a lot of pictures. Later that night we went to the drive in movie theater and saw the jungle book and zootopia. We didn't make it to the third movie because I fell asleep during zootopia. During zootopia he nudged me while I was asleep and he looked over at me and asked me if I’d be his. I said yes, he gave me a kiss and I fell back to sleep and he drove us home and we slept for the night.

Well, for months prior Dilon and I had been planning our return trip to mud nationals, from renting out a camp site, to getting a trailer and vehicle to tow the toys, we were working out the details for quite a while. So, when it finally came to the day, there’s nothing that I could have been more excited for. We headed out early Friday morning making the trek from Dilon’s house to hill city. On our way doing our normal routine, get food, get gas, buy the last couple things we were mission prior to arriving. From there we continued our way and made it. We were doing our thing, setting up the camp site, getting the wheelers unloaded, unpacking food, loading up the coolers, staging everything for the ease of getting to it later. All the while me and Dilon had noticed these two girls in the camp site next to us having a hell of a time with their four wheeler, it wasn’t wanting to run for the life of it. So being the guys we are, of course we had to go over and ask what’s going on, see if they needed help. To this day, I cannot remember whatever was wrong with Amanda’s wheeler, but what I do know is as we were walking over and kind of chatted up, I had made eye contact with Tasha, and I had this feeling in my stomach that was like no other. I had no idea what it was, but I knew it was something. After we got their wheeler running it was getting a bit late, dinner time, the girls were trying to cook on their grill, and well. Absolute failure still wouldn’t quite explain how that was going… So, since it was Dilon, Briita, Cole and myself, and we had the game plan on going to the pizza place in grand rapids, we decided to ask them to come tag along with us so they actually got to eat some dinner. While there we all just talked, got to know each other, that’s when Tasha and I swapped snapchats. Once we got back to the campsite there wasn’t a whole lot going on, we started up a fire, hanging out. The next day we went out trail riding, and with Dilon’s dirt bike pretty well hashed I decided to just cruise around in my truck to go watch the events. Everybody else was out doing their own thing. But later that evening while back at the campsite was one of the funniest and most remember able moments I’ve got to this date…. So Amanda had disappeared to who only god knows where, and well. Tasha was on a mission to go find her, and her plan was to walk. So, me being me, I asked her if she wanted a ride. Ya know why not, I’ve got my truck there anyways, so as we go over to my truck, mind you I’ve had if for 5 days… just bought it. And Tasha went to go open up the passenger’s door, and it was locked. No big deal, I unlocked the door.. nothing. Tried to open it from inside, nothing, tried unlocking several other times, still nothing. I eventually had to resort to using the key fob, after we tried countless ways to get it unlocked never succeeding…. I was so embarrassed, and was blushing too because I’ve got this super cute girlie trying to get a ride in my new truck that I’m so proud of and can’t even get the dang door open… it was so great. And then later that night, leave to me to try and impress her more… I went and took my new truck mudding to show off because I couldn’t with a four wheeler… oh the things you do for women. Good times, good times. After that weekend we had kept in touch every now and then, not a whole lot then came towards January area where we had started talking a lot, and we decided that we had to set up a weekend to hang out together being its such a long drive to the cities it can't really be just a day thing. So we planned for the weekend of the April 23rd, kind of to kill 2 birds with one stone in my book… Not only did I get to finally see miss tasha but there was also the LTM spring kick off truck meet, and I had been wanting to go that too.. Win Win for me! Ironically my “new truck” isn’t the black truck anymore, it's now my newer tan s10, so of course she had to give me shit about it, asking if she was going to get locked out again.. ugh. Anyhow once I got there we went to como zoo, where we got lots and lots of cute pictures. After there we went to the Horse Expo, we went and wandered the grounds getting to know each other more and more, seeing horse trailers getting ideas for the future, finding one that we decided would be absolutely perfect for us. And then we went to the mall of America, where we walked all 4 floors and then sum leaving us to be nice and sore for the next morning. The next morning we woke up and literally could hardly walk our legs were so sore, granted we both laughed about it and I made her get up so we could go to the truck meet, because no way I was missing it. So I dragged her butt out and we went, I had a blast, I think she was just then discovering how big my addiction to trucks was… and she only got a small dosage then, after there we drove downtown to the Mill City museum, just as something to do, we went spent a couple hours there. After that we made the plan to go to the Vali Hi drive in movie theater, where we watched the new Jungle book, and well attempted to watch zootopia. As soon as zootopia started tasha was starting to fall asleep so I knew that we were going to wrap up this weekend and tomorrow morning I’d have to be on my way back home, so I took the chance, and I leaned over, kind of nudged her to have her look at me, and I asked her is she’d be mine… and she said yes! Oh how I was just so happy, I gave her a light kiss, and then started up the truck and we went back to crash for the night.