00:00Kaden and I have known each other since elementary school.
00:02We had the same class in first and second grade,
00:05and we went to the same elementary school up until fifth grade.
00:09He went to a different school, and then in middle school,
00:12he went to a Christian school, and I just went to a regular school.
00:15So basically, from fifth grade to ninth grade,
00:18we did not see each other, did not have contact with each other at all.
00:22But I will say I did think about him every now and then between that time,
00:25because I just had such a big crush on him when we were younger,
00:28and I would just always think like,
00:29I wonder what Kaden is doing right now.
00:31Like, I remember that kid.
00:32Like, I wonder what he was doing at the time.
00:35Funny enough, we actually lived in the same town the whole time.
00:37We just never came across each other at all.
00:41So the first day of sophomore year comes around,
00:43first day of school, and I'm going to second period.
00:47I walk in, and I see him at the table.
00:51I didn't really know who he was, but I was like,
00:53he looks kind of familiar.
00:55He looked totally different than when we were kids, obviously.
00:58Our teacher had already assigned us seats,
01:00and my seat happened to be right in front of his.
01:03And we had little name tags on our seat for whatever reason in 11th grade.
01:08And I'm not a shy girl.
01:10Like, I'm not really shy when it comes to people or anything like that.
01:13So I was like, he looks familiar.
01:15So I just snatched his name tag up, and I looked at it,
01:17and I was like, oh my gosh, Kaden Stapp.
01:20He was like, I remember you, but I don't remember your name.
01:23And I was like, oh my gosh, it's Juicia.
01:25And we were like, oh my gosh, like, what?
01:27It was a really crazy moment.
01:28And again, he did not really like me like that when we were younger.
01:32So for him to be like excited to remember me and see me,
01:34I was like, oh, word, whatever.
01:36Literally from that moment forward, we were best friends, like inseparable.
01:43Talked every single day.
01:44Like, just you could not, when you saw him, you saw me.
01:48The first time we had hung out with each other at his house,
01:50we were playing GTA 5.
01:53And he just stopped, and he just looked at me.
01:55He was like, can we hug?
01:58But then we already liked each other.
01:59So I was like, yeah, whatever.
02:01And then I remember him just looking me in my eyes.
02:03He was like, I want to ask you to be my girlfriend.
02:05And I was like, I still get so giddy thinking about it.
02:10Because it was the sweetest thing in the whole world.
02:12He was nervous, but he really wanted to do it the right way.
02:14I love that man.
02:16So yeah, we've been together for five years.
02:18We've been married for two and a half years.
02:20Fun fact, Caden actually proposed to me at our one year anniversary.
02:26And we were 16 and 17 when he proposed to me.
02:30It was a real proposal.
02:33Like, he took me to this special spot we used to go to.
02:36He got down on one knee, had a ring, the whole nine.
02:39This was a real proposal at 17 years old.
02:42Looking back, that's insane.
02:45That's literally nuts.
02:46But it really did work out in the end.
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