In Summer of 2017, Alli had to attend summer school in order to train for basketball at SDSU. While in summer school, she worked part time at a restaurant with Mike. One night after getting off work together, Mike asked if Alli wanted to come over to have dinner at his apartment and hang out. We decided to share a pizza from Woodstock Pizza. This was a bad idea.... within a couple of hours Alli had gotten food poisoning. She spent the whole night in Mike's bathroom being sick. Mike stayed and comforted her the whole night, while Alli protested for him to leave her alone. It was true love. After realizing how much they cared for another, Mike kissed Alli the next day and the rest is history.

In December I had purchased the ring... this was it! I was finally going to propose to Alli. I couldn't contain my excitement as the ring was burning a hole in my pocket so I decided that today was the day. As a Christmas present, Jon (Mike's Brother) and Brittany Roy (His girlfriend) got Bruins tickets for the four of us to go on a double date. We decided to take the train down to Boston and have ourselves a night on the town. Anytime we take the train to north station, Alli gets a cannoli from Mike's Pastry and we walk over to the park for her to eat it. Sure enough that's exactly what happened, she got her cannoli and we headed over to the park. Jon and Brittany asked Alli if she wanted a picture of us which she replied to by saying, "sure" and then preceded to hand her cannoli to Jon. She walked over to the bridge to pose for the picture and when she turned around I pulled the ring out and got down on one knee! I asked her to marry me and she said yes!