We're getting married!

We first met at a Halfway to Halloween Party while Hayley was working in Springfield, Missouri and Chad was finishing up his graduate degree at Drury. Hayley was embracing her Slytherin tendencies and Chad was channeling a underdeveloped mustachioed front-man for Queen. It was not love at first sight, in fact Chad was planning on moving a month after they met, but the need to take one more class and persistence paid off. Our blossoming love (as well as expiring contracts, leases, and graduations) led us to move to Colorado together in the winter of 2016. After a winter on the side of a mountain where our relationship was able to grow and prosper away from the distractions like cell phone service and wi-fi, we were at an impasse about what was next. An agreement was made that we would move to wherever one of us could get a job first. In April 2017 we moved to Colorado Springs (Hayley won). Hayley and Chad both started for the city for the summer. As Chad's summer job was wrapping up and he had pretty much accepted that he wasn't going to find a teaching job one opened up and within days of applying he was soon living his dream working as a high school history teacher. In September 2017 Ahsoka joined the family and changed our lives in immeasurable ways. In July 2019, we bought Ahsoka a house so that she could finally have a backyard of her own. In early 2020, through Ahsoka's social media connections, we found Kyber at the Denver Animal Shelter. Ahsoka adopted him as her brother and he took her as his emotional support dog and fearless leader. On a climbing excursion in the Springs in May of 2020 Chad proposed to a grumpy, exhausted Hayley on top of a cliff- she accepted the proposition (that's why we are all here now). In May 2021 our family was completed when Hayley went to the mall to look at Star Wars memorabilia and came back with... our kitten - Cassian, which nobody, including Hayley expected.