We met on Hinge, and honestly, it almost didn’t go anywhere with Bayley in Michigan and Brandon in Indiana. Brandon sent the first message, but Bayley was the one who asked for his number, so we still debate who actually made the first move. A few eight-hour FaceTimes later, along with an orchestra and climbing date, we both deleted Hinge for good. What started as something that could have easily stayed casual turned into something neither of us really wanted to stop, and it just kept getting easier to choose each other. Those early days were filled with long conversations that covered everything from big life dreams to the smallest details of our day, along with stories from our pasts and everything in between. Somewhere in those conversations, it stopped feeling like something new and started feeling like something real. As things quickly grew more serious, so did the decisions we started making together. Living together, building a shared life, and figuring out what that actually meant became part of the conversation too. Even the dogs became a milestone for Brandon, which Bayley still says they love him more than her. After Brandon accepted a position in Missouri, we got back from the Paris Oympics and moved five days later. It was fast, chaotic, and exciting all at once, the kind of move that does not leave much time to overthink anything, which somehow made it feel exactly right. A year later, everything shifted again. Bayley was pregnant and Brandon was offered the head diving coaching position at the University of Michigan. We packed up and moved once more, a little more experienced this time, and a lot more certain that we could handle whatever came next as long as we were doing it together. In the middle of all the moving, growing, and figuring things out, our biggest change came when our daughter Harvey was born. She turned everything into something deeper and more grounded, giving all of our big decisions a much simpler meaning. We were not just building a life anymore, we were living it as a family.