We met at home school band when we were middle schoolers. During high school, we became best friends, and our friendship has always been one of laughter, healthy (or loud heckling on Ann's part) competition in all games where we do not play on the same team, a sharing of our faith, charity, and a mutual quest for adventure, all of which has only continued to bring us closer together throughout our high school and college years. After many years of friendship, we began dating in college in December of 2015. We dated one additional year after both returning home from our out-of-state schools, and got engaged on May 17th, 2019. It has been a long, unexpected journey for us, and so we could not be more excited to get married!