We met on a fine winter day at Stratton Meadows Elementary School in Colorado Springs back in 2014. Erik asked the school counselor who the woman was with the cool butt. We met through a shared student, and proceeded to attend multiple happy hours with flowing gin and tonics. Somewhere in there was a winky face emoji in a work email, but the veracity of this depends on who you ask. Many happy hours later, we began dating and the rest is history.