I'll try my best not to make this too long ;) For context, you need to know that I coach club soccer. I've been coaching for 13 years and I love posting about my teams in my Instagrams stories. One day I received a message from Daniel wanting to know information on how to get into coaching. I had no idea who he was and I wasn't even following him. Luckily around that time I really needed an assistant and he spoke very passionately so I figured it wouldn't hurt to bring him out to a session. I introduced him to my director and he started shadowing and coaching along side me until he was comfortable enough to be on his own. We became good friends! We started to hang out after practices and not long after that he asked me out on a date. All it took was one date and we were pretty much inseparable. Now this is where things got interesting. We dated for a few months before Daniel asked if he could meet my parents so they could get to know him before anything got anymore serious. He asked my parents out to eat but I wasn't allowed to go. I was a ball of stress the whole afternoon. When they came back I was absolutely floored with what they told me. My dad apparently recognized him right away. It turns out that 25 years ago when both of our parents first immigrated here, they were all roommates with each other. Our moms were best friends that lost contact after my parents moved to a different area. My parents told us stories about how Daniel's grandmother used to baby sit us together. We found pictures of us as kids but we have no recollection of anything, it's so weird. That same day we took both of my parents over to Daniel's house, our moms hadn't seen each other in yeeeaaarsss! So you can imagine the surprise when she walked in to find them. After that everything fell into place so easily.

The day we got engaged was in Puerto Rico. I thought we were taking a big group trip with all of our friends. Not even thinking that anything else was coming. In my mind I just figured everyone really really wanted to go on a vacation. Daniel asked if we could have a date night on one of the days and I agreed. We had dinner and walked around for a bit. Looking back, he was acting really weird but again I was completely oblivious. We came to a crowd and I saw my friends sitting across from us. I didn't see the sign to the left at first. I took one glance and knew! My friends had tears in their eyes and the crowd around us got bigger. There were lots of cheers. Everything was perfect.