They had joked around with their friend about attending a matinee of the recently released movie Magic Mike. When their friend was held up with a "previous engagement", they went on to attend together. Andy loved to critique and explain and discuss movies allowing Amanda to open up and talk more than Andy thought she was ever capable of. Their love for movies bloomed. There were many movie dates to be had after, officially beginning their crazy relationship Friday, July 13th 2012.

During Amanda's first year of UTSA she started attending Anime Club meetings where in which Andy was their current Head Nerd at the time. Outings became a regular thing for Anime Club members to socialize outside of the meetings. They became close as they attended more and more of the outings and eventually came to the conclusion that they had not much else in common aside from anime.

To celebrate their 7 year anniversary Amanda and Andy spent the weekend in Austin seeing the sites, going to shows and crawling down 6th Street enjoying all the time they could together in a short weekend. At the end of a well spent day Andy was found on one knee with a shit eating grin.