One February evening Anna and Steve met at their friends Margaret and Corey's house in Winters, CA for a nice wholesome blind wine tasting (Grenache) and potluck a friend named Tree was hosting at their house. There was good food, wine, music, and great company. At the beginning of the evening Anna was holding Margaret and Corey's baby named Orion when suddenly this guy (Steve) comes up and asks, "how's that baby holding going?" Anna replied, "great, he's a sweetie......so who are you?" While introducing themselves they found out they were both post-docs at UC Davis and both happened to be working in the same building but had never actually seen each other as they are on different floors and opposite wings. After discussing how they both brought the $7.99 bottle of wine from Trader Joes that would most likely not be award-winning, they decided to play a good old fashioned game of M.A.S.H. You know the one, Mansion, Apartment, Shack, House. According to his results, Steve was supposed to live in a shack in Idaho, marry Pocahontas and drive a red 90's mustang. However, it seems as though MASH is now being defied. Instead, he gets Anna, lives in a house in West Sacramento with two dogs and drives a Toyota pickup. It was a hilarious game. At the end of the night the party hosts brought everyone down to the dry creek bed behind their house to howl at the moon or in Steve's case, he got everyone to chant lines from his favorite movie Home Alone. He made Anna laugh and laugh the entire night. Later that week, she asked if he would be her valentine so they went on their first date on Valentine's day. He packed a lovely picnic and they dined in the sunshine in the Arboretum on the UC Davis Campus. Since then he's made Anna laugh every day and dance every night.