2020 was quite possibly one of the worst years on recent record. But one good thing came out of that year for us. It's when we met. The first "I love you's" were shared on Christmas. That following summer we took a trip to the Outer Banks. Our first weekend away together. There we laid under the stars, listened to love songs, and got misty eyed as we both realized for the first time what the rest of our lives would look like. That winter, during a beautiful walk through the Norfolk Botanical Gardens, Joel got down on one knee.