Here's the story of how Laurel and Patrick met each other..... In a nutshell - I gave my number to my good friend (and future sister in law) Chandra to give to her very handsome brother. I first saw Patrick at a birthday party and totally felt the cliché of "when you know, you know." Two weeks later, Patrick texted me and I texted back...and we had a pen-pal via texting 'get to know' you period where we talked about cats, books, favorite tv shows, cat Olympics, favorite foods and movies, and cats. Soon the pen-pal texting turned into 2 hour daily phone calls to phone-movie-dates where timing was everything. Then we met in real life at Rollerarena in Richland for another birthday party...but that's another story...

We will be getting married at a small private ceremony on October 24th but look forward to celebrating with ALL our family and friends on October 25th.