7/7/17: John and Keely meet for a trail run and parking lot beers on the Red Rocks trail in Morrison, Colorado. Little does John know, Keely came straight from cadaver lab. Little does Keely know, John just found out his apartment has bed bugs. 6/16/18: John and Keely move in together in Denver, Colorado. What their 1930s building lacks in A/C and functioning doors and windows, it makes up for in charm. They heat the apartment to sauna-level temperatures to host many pizza nights for friends and family. 8/16/19: Keely and John pack up their lives and head west to Portland, Oregon for Keely's last clinical rotation and first post-grad job. John drives a moving truck for the first and last time. 9/30/19: The couple says the rain in Portland "isn't bad at all!" They later retract that statement. 4/17/20: Pretzel the dachshund joins the family. She steals their hearts and the hearts of every human and dog in the neighborhood. 3/2/21: John proposes to Keely during a hike in Beacon Rock State Park on one of the PNW's first sunny early spring days.