We can't wait to celebrate with y'all!

Most people know we met through a mutual friend: the internet. For those unfamiliar with the dating app Bumble, its logo includes a little bumblebee, but also required Liz to initiate contact. This is a great innovation, but the real question is "Well, what actually caught Liz's attention?" TL;DR --> The "TL;DR" Confused? Yes, the TL;DR (short for Too Long, Don't Read) at the top of my Bumble profile was something along the lines of *TL;DR I'm an oversized human being.* Naturally, Liz felt compelled to correct my assumed spelling or grammar mistake at the beginning (that actual "TL;DR" text). Having explained it away, the next hurdle was actually meeting in person. Little did I know I'd be getting some help from the Texas Longhorns football team as they destroyed the San Diego Banana Slugs that eventful Saturday. We decided to meet up at Lustre Pearl on Rainey Street and the rest, you can say, was "written in the stars!"

I was fully expecting Tim to propose in May/June 2019, so much so that I already had our 2020 wedding date picked out in my head. I might have even told a small group of 40-50 friends to save that 2020 date, so that's embarrassing. By the time March 2020 rolled around, I'd bascially been obsessing about it for like 10-11 months and my mind was playing tricks on itself. The fact that Tim's family was coming to visit did NOT tip me off that the proposal was coming - if anything, I thought that Tim would think that I would think that it would be too obvious for it to happen while his family was in town, thereby ruining the element of surprise. Totally normal, right? Anyway, I'm very glad I was wrong, because having both our families there in our backyard to witness the moment when Tim asked me to be his wife was very special. I'm also VERY glad I decided to shower and wash my hair, because I was [thisclose] to not doing so after running around all morning prepping for the crawfish boil. It was an amazing day filled with family, friends, love and laughs - and some very yummy crawfish (Tim's first time, and he killed it)! Then a week later the world shut down, thanks COVID.