Our story starts with a soul-searching journey to work in Glacier National Park after a challenging first year of graduate school. Will already worked for the company and almost immediately upon arrival we became close friends. During that summer we made many memories-- Will came out of hiking "retirement," I almost seriously damaged his truck while mudding, we star-gazed, and Will got me hooked on Stranger Things. Through the luck of timing and the urgings of a meddlesome friend named Mason, Will took his shot with me. At the conclusion of the summer, we decided to test our budding romance with long-distance dating. We reunited to attend Brad and Erin's wedding together that fall and went on a two-week road trip through the Pacific Northwest just after Christmas. After many cross-country flights, our long-distance journey ended when Will moved 2300 miles to begin a new adventure in PA. In December of 2020 we added a beautiful chocolate lab named Nora to our family and our trio was complete.