Colleen & Doug

Our Story

Take a walk down memory lane with us; from First Date to Engagement! Click on the pictures to learn more!

Colleen sent this photo to her friend Laurel on her way to her first "official" date with Doug at Fisher Brewery on 3/13/2021. "Trying to go for the ski aesthetic since this guy's a Utah ski bro".

After freezing to death on the patio with a heat lamp, Doug and Colleen decided to see each other again. Another COVID date w "beautiful" weather for outdoor adventures. They hiked City Creek Canyon

It turns out, this "Utah Ski Bro" did not live in Utah. Colleen accused Doug of "catfishing" her when she found out he actually lived in San Francisco!

Doug was horrified that as a surgery intern Colleen's lunches always consisted of saltine crackers in the PACU. He packed her a real lunch for breast surgery clinic, complete with a note!

We took our first trip together about a month into dating, and went down to Southern Utah to explore the national parks!

We even tried our hand at sand boarding

Doug spent most of the spring in Utah and even met some of Colleen's friends before heading back to the office in person in SF at the end of April

We kept in touch with texts, phone calls, and even Zoom dinner dates (as was the trend in COVID times!). I had a vacation week blocked off in May, and I planned to come out to SF to visit him then

Doug took Colleen to his favorite winery in Napa, Larson Family Winery

As a fun adventure, we used the rest of Colleen's vacation week to travel to Hawaii!

We had both never been, and it was fun to get to explore a new place together.

Doug met all of my cointerns at a bbq on June 30, where we celebrated making it through our surgery intern year

Colleen was able to make it out to San Francisco over the summer when she had weekends off at the VA

For Colleen's birthday we took a trip down to Cambria, Paso Robles and the central coast with one of Colleen's vacation weeks

After a busy summer going back and forth to San Francisco, Doug came back out to Utah and we hiked to the hot springs in American Fork Canyon

Doug continued to bond with Olive Cat (who predates him).

We went on more fall/winter hikes with friends

Took a trip to Miami to escape the snow and met Doug's cousin, Grant!

Enjoying a few days off around New Year's Eve at Deer Valley

Colleen was barely surviving her trauma nights rotation (6p-6a, 6 days a week), but luckily had Valentine's weekend off for a quick trip to SF for a Valentine's date at Top of Mark!

To celebrate surviving trauma nights AND Doug moving to Salt Lake, Doug and Colleen enjoyed a well-deserved vacation week

It was nice to have a new start together!

While in New Orleans for Lynne and Ian's wedding, Colleen gave Doug a tour of the Tulane School of Medicine, including the Mural she helped paint in the surgery department

Olive Cat did not enjoy the scrub caps in her likeness that Doug got for Colleen. He's "not really a cat person...".

Trying to win the Utah Surgery Mountain Challenge hiking in the foothills once the very little snow we had that season melted

Colleen "miraculously" got MDW off in the Burn Unit and we took a trip to Moab to go rafting!

Met up with Adam and Kaylee during our Moab adventure!

During a vacation week during bariatric surgery, we enjoyed a trip to Italy for Doug's friend Chase's wedding, inlcuding a fun waterside dinner at "Il Pirata"

We floated the Provo River on Colleen's birthday

Colleen makes her dermatology friends proud with the hat and sunglasses

Snowbird Oktoberfest!

Colleen was in two back-to-back weddings on 9/17 (Kenzie and Brian) and 9/18 (Ally and Steve) in Nashville and the Jersey Shore. Doug decided she was fired from trip planning after that

Enjoying the fall foliage with fellow birds fans, Jess and Scott

Doug's best Ted Lasso on Halloween

Doug broke his foot playing tennis, and TSA was perplexed by the boot

We enjoyed 48h in Mexico City to celebrate Andrew and Andrea's wedding. Note the boot is still with us.

CDMX was a fun escape during transplant surgery!

Doug cooked dinner for everyone!

Outfitting Doug for the holidays with the Amazon purchase Colleen made while on call on transplant

Colleen had a much-needed vacation week after barely surviving being the senior resident on trauma surgery.

Doug and Colleen spent Valentine's Day 2023 learning to wake surf in Miami!

Next, we headed back to NOLA for Mardi Gras!

Doug dined in style at Commander's Palace

During Colleen's "Scopes" rotation, we took advantage of long weekends to explore different ski destinations

We summitted the Highland Bowl at Aspen Highlands

Doug's friends from business school came out to enjoy a ski weekend as well

This photo was taken just after we survived "The Worst Snow in America" at Sun Valley, but minutes before Andrew tore his ACL.

Olive Cat's least favorite activity: Cat Manicure. (Doug's not really a cat person)

Cowboy Bday party for Maddie!

Tubing in Lava Hot Springs, Idaho for Colleen's birthday

We rented a boat in Lake Como during the Research Year 1.0 Eurotrip

And gambled in style at Monte Carlo

Enjoying the south of france!

Fall foliage hikes

Doug tries to pretend it's still summer at the pool

Second trip to the hot springs

We spent a weekend with The Birds (Brian and Kenzie but also the Eagles) in LA!

Doug had a killer Halloween costume- we spent Halloweekend back east with Erin and Jordan after the American College of Surgeon's meeting was in Boston that year.

Doug loved watching the Eagles with our new pal Margie

And then later hated watching the Eagles as they failed to win a game after SF

Hanging out with Jo and Sam at Laura and Joe's wedding!

wedding ready!

Got interlodged (snowed in) at Alta, so Doug had to cheat at scrabble instead of skiing

After we were released we had a successful "Alta Bomb" at Goldminer's

Some of us were too frozen to have an Alta bomb

My dad accused me of causing the Eagles' downfall, because as I painted this portrait of Jalen Hurts for Doug's Christmas gift, the worse the Eagles played. See "Picture of Dorian Gray" for more info