Cody Archie

But it wasn't part of the Lord's plan.

I ended up back in Gatesville working in a preconditioning yard that my cousin owned.

15,000 to 18,000 head a year he ran through there.

And I was processing cattle, running feed trucks, farming on top of that.

We did everything ourselves.

We didn't hire anything out.

So cutting, raking, baling hay, plowing and planting, processing doctrine sick calves, doing all that kind of stuff.

I always wanted to be in, like I said, either a veterinarian or be involved in ag.

I had an aunt and uncle that were heavily involved in ag and spent my summers as a kid at their place working the ranch for them and wanted to have something of my own.

Eric and I just kind of... That's when he stalked me at the bank.

Stalk is a poor choice of words.

I had a cousin that was a loan officer.

Erica was working in the loan department.

I would go in there to make payments on a loan that I had and thought, well, maybe, you know, her cousin told my cousin to tell me to ask her out.

I know it kind of sounds like this is kind of like some Tennessee stuff.

We're not related, but I asked her out.

She said, yeah, I'd love to go out.

And I'm like, all right, I'll be back this afternoon to pick you up.

I went home and

Got to work on the feed truck, got all my feeding done.