We couldn't be happier to celebrate with you!

We first met playing on a soccer team together in grad school in Atlanta. We bonded over studying mosquito-borne diseases and mapping geospatial data. After a summer apart when Chris was working at Emory and Heather was doing research in Trinidad & Tobago, we were back on the soccer field and closer than ever. Our first 'date' was at Chipotle after a pick-up game on September 4, 2015.

After exploring Yosemite Valley for the first time with our parents, we stopped at Tunnel View on our way out of the park for a solo hike to - wait for it - Bridal Veil Falls. We went off-trail for a better view, then Chris told Heather to look under a nearby rock. There was a letter in a plastic bag, which Chris had written and hid there a week earlier. When Heather was done reading it, he asked her to marry him! We finished the hike to the falls where our parents were waiting for us, then stopped for celebratory tacos and cervezas at Taqueria Riverbank in Oakdale before heading home to Berkeley.