Haley vividly remembers meeting Taylor for the first time in the Penland dining hall freshman year at Baylor. Taylor does not have this memory. He remembers meeting Haley freshman year, but the details are a little fuzzy. After Haley’s love-at-first-sight moment in the dining hall, she began referring to her new friend as “Hot Taylor” and that’s where it all began. “Are you talking about Hot Taylor?” “Will Hot Taylor be there?” “Can we invite Hot Taylor?” She had developed a serious crush. Her friends, well-aware of this new crush, had the genius idea of getting Taylor’s help to surprise Haley for T-Day (a Tri Delta tradition where gifts are given with each letter of “D-E-L-T-A”; “Taylor” represented the “T”). Taylor’s mission was to hide in a box on Haley’s front porch, and leap out screaming “Happy T-Day!” when Haley opened the door. The mission was a complete success. Haley was absolutely shocked, and this moment really ignited their friendship. A week or so after T-Day, Taylor went to the first (of many) Tri Delta date events with Haley, and they took their first picture together. Love was in the air. Haley and Taylor hung out periodically over the next couple years, but they really became the best of friends during junior year. Taylor and his roommates had decided to live at a complex called the Hunt Club II, and Lainey persuaded Haley and her roommates to live there too, using Taylor as one of her convincing arguments. Throughout that year, Haley and Taylor hung out just about every day. They drove to class together, did homework together, watched YouTube videos together, stayed up late together, and truly became best friends. Haley’s crush on Taylor had not gone away, but the timing was still not quite right.

Fast forward to 2018, Haley and Taylor were both still in Waco for their 5th year in the accounting program. Over the course of this year, they spent a lot of time together, in class and outside of class. It was over this year that Taylor finally came to his senses and realized what he had right in front of him this whole time. He realized he had this incredible, beautiful best friend and that he had been an idiot not to ask her out before now. On the day after graduation, Taylor finally asked Haley on a date. After a few hours of silence (and a near nervous breakdown from Taylor), Haley responded with a resounding “HAHHA YES”. She picked the wrong day to leave her phone at home when going out to dinner. The day of their first date, Taylor woke up feeling horribly and throwing up, so he had to postpone. Haley of course had her doubts if he was really sick. Mary Grace texting her “yeah he probably doesn’t want to go” didn’t help matters, but MG was just so sure they were meant to be that she knew Taylor wasn’t faking it. Eventually, they went on that date and then went on many, many more after that. Haley and Taylor have loved living life together in Houston. The transition from being friends to dating was an easy one. They have gotten to know each other’s families, made new friends, spent time with old friends, taken trips, and loved each other well. There was never a doubt that these two are perfect for each other. On January 11th 2020, Hot Taylor got down on one knee and asked Hot Haley to marry him. They can’t wait for August 15th and the years to come.