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Tricia was born in Landcaster California to Judie Haubrich Cates. She lived in her mom's hometown, a small mountain community known as Tehachapi California, until she was five years old. Later her family moved to Katy Texas, where she grew up and now considers her home town. She graduated from Taylor High School in Katy Texas, where she was involved in Choir and FFA.  She later went on to attend The University of Houston for a Bachelors degree in Pscyhology. She is currently attending Ashford University for a Masters degree in Buisness Administration with concentration on Finance and Accounting.  She is currently working at CourthouseDirect.com in the Accounting Department.  After completing her Masters degree she hopes to take the exam to be a Certified Public Accountant.

Nate was born in Jerseyville, Illinois to Cindy and Mark Embley.  Nate grew up in this small town located close to the Mississippi River. He graduated from Jerseyville High School, where he played golf and tennis. Nate went on to play golf at Blackburn College where he recieved his Bachelors degree in Biology. After graduating from Blackburn College he went on to recieve his Masters in Biology from the University of Illinois in Springfield. He then moved to Houston to work for the University of Texas in Research, but later decided to pursue his dream of being a teacher and coach. He is now employed with CyFair ISD and is the Head Tennis Coach at CySprings High School and also teaches Aquatic Science. In his spare time you will find Nate on the golf course. He dreams of playing golf for a living!

Nate and Tricia met in the summer of 2004.  At that time Tricia was employeed at Oshman's Sports Store.  On the last day at her job, Nate happened to be shopping for golf shoes.  Lucky for him, Tricia was working close to the golf shoe area and asked him if he needed help.  There are two sides to what happpened next.  Nate says that Tricia was checking him out.  Tricia says that she wasn't, but that she was simply doing her job and asked him if he needed help.  They both agree that Nate asked if the golf shoes were on sale.   Ironically, our friend's Mark and Alex were also in the store and watched Nate as he talked to Tricia for the first time.  It is a joke now that they are a partly responsible for the start of our relationship (there you go Mark)! Our first date was two weeks later because Tricia still had to take her final exams. We went to Herman Park and The Art Muesum. Ever since that summer Nate and Tricia have been each others' other half!

In April of 2008, we bought our first house in Copperfield (located on the Northwest side of Houston) and have been enjoying (or surviving) the ups and downs of home ownership, which included surviving Hurricane Ike. Due to the hurricane damage we announced our engagement at Christmas to our families and friends, but couldn't afford to get a ring yet.  So after a couple months, we enjoyed a wonderful cruise to the Bahamas and Florida Keys and Nate proposed at Sunset on the boat. It was a beautiful setting.