We officially decided to date at a Bob Ross painting party Christina had in her basement with a group of mutual friends. The first date out was for ice cream to talk and get to know each other better. Then Francis took Christina to his house to meet the family.

It actually wasn’t anything too special. Just a nice day watching our daughter play in the yard, Francis runs inside to get us all snacks and comes back with a ring. “Here, we’re engaged, for real now.” was all he said. We didn’t tell anyone. Let everyone find out at the same time through Facebook. A lot of people thought it was an April fools joke we were playing.