07.11.26

We first met during our senior year of high school at a Cars and Coffee meet in San Clemente in 2021. What started as a simple friendship quickly grew stronger as we bonded over shared interests and big plans for the future—especially when we discovered we’d both be heading to NAU for college. From school dances like Winter Formal to dancing the night away at prom, those moments were just the beginning of a love story that keeps getting better.

Our family wouldn’t be complete without our two dogs, Eliza and Willow—our favorite foster fails. Eliza spent months roaming the streets of Williams, Arizona as a stray before finding her way to our local shelter. From the moment we met her, she showed us what resilience and unconditional love looked like, and what began as a plan to foster quickly turned into an adoption when we realized she was already home. Two years later, we welcomed Willow, a puppy rescued from a cruelty case. At just six months old, she was full of personality and impossible not to love—so naturally, she stayed. In the most perfect coincidence, Willow’s birthday is July 11, the same day as our wedding anniversary, and we’ll be celebrating her first birthday right alongside our “I do’s.”