John and Lindsey met in Stowe, Vermont on a bike path. Lindsey was walking her new puppy. John was recovering from major knee surgery and had just left his appointment with his knee surgeon. John bought Lindsey a vanilla latte and they walked. John asked questions and Lindsey talked. In fact, John was so quiet that Lindsey did not know if he liked her, until he walked her to her car and gave her a very longggggg hug and asked her for her phone number. John started texting her immediately wanting to see her again. Lindsey told John that she was too busy to date anyone and worked a lot and had a very busy schedule. Lindsey worked at a local yoga studio and waitressed at night while raising a little boy. John at that time in his life was down in the dumps and stuck in a very serious rut that was lasting longer than he cares to admit. John wasn’t taking no for an answer from Lindsey, there was something about her, he said. He was very patient and waited until Lindsey had free time. He called her everyday. One time, Lindsey had mentioned she needed a life jacket for a trip to her friend’s cabin. John drove an hour to sneak the life jacket in her car before she left for her trip only to drive back an hour. He snuck the life jacket into her car to avoid being seen by Logan. Lindsey was not ready for him to meet Logan at that time. She mentioned she wanted to go kayaking, John made it happen. She had said she couldn’t find soccer cleats for Logan and John drove all over town to find soccer cleats just in time for Logan’s first soccer practice. For their first Christmas, John drove through a crazy snowstorm to make sure Logan got all the presents he wanted. To put it simply, John was not going to let Lindsey get away. John asked Lindsey to be his date to his friend Mike’s wedding he was going to be a groomsman in. When he asked Anjali and Mike if he could bring a date, to their surprise, because he originally told them he wasn’t bringing a date (that was until he met Lindsey). Anjali asked John “is she the one” because they had never seen John act like this before. Anjali told Lindsey at the wedding “John says you’re the one”. This gave Lindsey butterflies. It was at this wedding that Lindsey began to realize what John had been feeling since he met her. They were falling in love.

Lindsey did something she said she was never going to do, she introduced John to the other man in her life, Logan! John and Logan instantly hit it off, maybe it was the amusement park John took him to,or maybe it was a special bond that you don’t get with just anyone (don’t call Logan John’s stepson, John will correct you right away and say he’s my son). He is certainly a bonus dad to Logan! After just 6 months, John proposed to Lindsey (with Logan’s permission of course). John was going to propose on Christmas but Lindsey is very hard to surprise and John had to get very sneaky. So while reading bedtime stories in Logan’s bunk bed, two days after Christmas, John proposed to both Lindsey and Logan. John then, (only to prove to Lindsey how romantic he can be) proposed on New Year’s Eve, surprising Lindsey at her work in front of her co workers. Long story short, It was a wild ride for them. They laugh now because on their second date, they talked about generally everything you are not supposed to talk about, money, religion and politics as well as if it’s true what people say; that when you meet the one you just know, because they both said to eachother “those people are lying”. And it happened to them. As they started to talk of a summer wedding, they found out Lindsey was pregnant on Valentine’s Day! It was a real twist to their planning. Let’s just say, John was a real doofus he will easily admit now. As a result, they hit some bumps in the road. John had a lot of growing up to do as he puts it. He needed to become the man that Lindsey knew he could be all along. John followed Lindsey to Colorado where she could be closer to her family. John has since redeemed himself in a major way and stepped up to be the man he knew he could be proud of. John took Lindsey to a Rockies game and re-proposed behind home plate as a token of his promise that he is a changed man because of her. John loves to prove Lindsey wrong. And he sure has proven that he can surprise her. John likes to say “Lindsey makes me a better man and she woke me up”. John and Lindsey have started their new life together in Colorado. They have come a long way in a short amount of time. They have worked hard to get here. They feel very grateful to have found eachother and then found eachother again. They love their little family they have created. They have been legally married since last year. Lindsey’s mom wanted her to have a real wedding, so in her mom’s honor and in the dress her mother bought her, they are having a real wedding. John and Lindsey want nothing more than to bring all their loved ones, near and far, together to celebrate their love. Thank you for reading their story, the best is yet to come! Thank you for being a part of their lives.