It's been quite a journey since we first met at Truman State University back in 2009. We crossed each other's paths through friends on Truman's ultimate frisbee team (go JujiTsu!), and April was crazy about Nick right away. After casually hanging out for a couple months, April graduated and we both headed back to St. Louis for the summer. May 25, 2009, we made it official! The next few years we spent dancing between Kirksville, St. Louis, and Columbia, MO where April had started grad school. We finally moved in together summer of 2012, and celebrated by getting a kitten! We spent the following years living the good life - traveling constantly, catching concerts, festivals, and baseball games, and visiting every brewery possible. The last year has been the craziest of our lives-- finishing degrees, leaving old jobs and starting new ones, and eventually moving across the country to California. We've loved every minute of our adventure and can't wait to see where life takes us next!

On a trip back to St. Louis for our seventh anniversary - May 25, 2016 - Nick proposed. Though April always thought it might happen some day, she was caught COMPLETELY off guard. Nick took her on a walk through Forest Park - the site of our first anniversary date (and many others) - and began retelling tales of our relationship. At the fountain on the base of Art Hill, he dropped to one knee.