Hillary and Miles first met at the local South Boston Virginia YMCA. Hillary wanted to use the squat rack, but couldn't get the pin undone to change the height. Miles came over to help, but he actually couldn't either (and neither could anyone else). The lady who worked the front desk also worked with Hillary at the time. A month or so later, there was a local YMCA 5k coming up that weekend and she told Hillary that she should run it. Miles was up at the front desk too and Rosalyn suggested Miles run the route with her a few days before so she'd know where to go. He beat her in that race. They started running together and would stay up late after the gym talking for the next several months until they made it official in July 2013.
We were all in Mickey Mouse PJs at Hillary's parent's house with her sister's family there too. We had opened up all the presents, but in hindsight, Miles hadn't given anything to Hillary. She went upstairs to change because they were headed to his cousin's house for Christmas lunch. While she was upstairs, he told her family he had an engagement ring, but wasn't sure when to propose. Both her sister and mom said - now. Her mom went up one set of stairs and her sister the other, asking her to come back down stairs - mom looked a bit teary-eyed, but Hillary still wasn't quite sure what was going on. Miles got down on one knee and proposed in front of her family. Zander and Jax weren't quite sure what was going on, but they sat and watched anyway. It was perfect! Needless to say, Hillary cried, but at least she was no longer in her PJs.