“We just kept staring back and forth the whole time,” he divulged in an interview withHGTV.

“I remember being like, ‘Wow, she’s really cute.'”

“I knewofher,” Cole said.

Chelsea and Cole DeBoer posing in front of a fall landscape

Plus, it would put Chelsea’s joking declaration about their impending marriage into more context.

As he reasoned, “I think [Cole] was just kind of nervous.”

Surprisingly, Houska looks back at their initial meeting with fondness, adding another unexpected element to the story.

Chelsea and Cole DeBoer posing close together in a selfie

In fact, her stepdad also admitted, “I don’t understand why they’re even around.”

“We want to have a good time with what we’re doing.”

For example, you could’t solve financial hardship or parenting disagreements with nothing more than a good time.

Chelsea and Cole DeBoer in a selfie

Cole and Chelsea DeBoer posing with Aubree Lind-DeBoer

Chelsea and Cole DeBoer posing together

Cole and Chelsea DeBoer posing together outside