Stephen and Taylor met in high school on the internet in 2015. Their first date was to go see Paper Towns at the Cinemark Movie Theater in Florence, KY the summer of 2015. After 8 years of not speaking to each other they decided to give it a shot again and by Fall of 2023 they were expecting their first child, Anakin Bauereis. Mothers Day 2024, Stephen woke up at 6:30 in the morning and decided to go buy flowers, a Mother’s Day card, and cinnamon rolls as a last minute Mother’s Day gift from Anakin. Little did Taylor know Stephen would be proposing that morning at around 8am, still in their pajamas, with that same last minute Mother’s Day card. The card included a beautiful letter written from Anakin ending in “p.s it is time for all of us to have the same last name.”