It was love at first Facebook friend request... One random day in December 2017, Mike sent Katherine a friend request. She thought he looked really cute and also noticed that they had one friend in common. The friend in common happened to be Adam Karras who Katherine considers to be a very close friend and is a member of her favorite texting group. Katherine did what any modern day girl would do... she sent a screenshot of Mike's friend request to her group text and asked Adam for all the information on Mike. How do you know him? What's he like? How well do you know him? In typical guy fashion Adam responded by saying he knew Mike through the Diversey Yacht Club as they had both served on the board together. He said he "didn't know Mike that well, but didn't think he was a d-bag". Since Katherine values Adam's opinions, she decided that was good enough for her and sent Mike a message through Facebook Messenger. Long story short, after many many messages across several days, Mike asked Katherine if she'd like to go out for drinks and quite obviously she said yes! Their first date was at The Gage and started with drinks, then progressed to dinner. After dinner, it was clear neither of them wanted the date to end and ended up closing down the bar on a work night! As it turns out, Adam was right about Mike and so we thank both Facebook and Adam for bringing us together! P.S. Want to see those first few texts?! Katherine is rather sentimental... and saved them as screen shots... and uploaded them to the photo gallery so head over there! Also in the photos section - our very first picture together. As we left The Gage, we walked right past the Christmas Tree in Millennium Park and said we should get a picture. And so our first picture is from our first date and happens to be one of my favorites!