Her first event was meeting her husband Stephen, senior year of high school at the age of seventeen. This changed her life because it "made her feel like she would be loved for the rest of her life." She said she knew he was the one for her when they met. Her second major life event was having her first child and becoming a mother for the first time, she said "there is no experience like it and nothing that prepares you for it". Her last major moment in her life was when she found out that her second son was handicapped and would need care for the rest of his life. It changed her life in so many ways, she became a full-time caregiver, it broke her heart and, she said, “it also made her grateful that Logan (her first child) was healthy and could live”.