How We Got Here

June 2020 | The first photo we ever took together! 📸 At the time, we were coworkers at Collision Bend (featuring Katie's best friend, Krista)

July 2020 | Michael used to draw on receipts when we worked together. I saved them all, and have them framed in our home 💕

July 2020 | Michael came to best friend Krista's birthday trip to Nashville! This is where he asked me to be his girlfriend 🥰

September 2020 | On our way to Cedar Point so Michael can experience America's rockin' roller coast for the FIRST TIME!

September 2020 | Michael and Katie's best friend Meggie enjoying a brew during a very COVID-era Cedar Point trip!

October 2020 | Michael looking very stoic after Katie's 29th birthday in Vermillion

November 2020 | First Thanksgiving together!

December 2020 | Back at Collision Bend together! One of our bartenders is a photographer and snapped this

December 2020 | First NYE together! 🪩

March 2021 | St. Patty's Day! ☘️

April 2021 | Celebrating Michael's 26th birthday in Hocking Hills

July 2021 | At Sally's retirement party! (featuring Katie's sister Tina and her Mom...Sally!)

July 2021 | Katie heads out west to Spokane, Washington to meet Michael's family for the first time! 💕

July 2021 | A note Michael's mom Roberta gave to us after we headed on a cross-country road trip from Washington back to Cleveland! 🥹

July 2021 | Visiting Mount Rushmore on our cross-country road trip

July 2021 | Stopped in Minneapolis to stay with Michael's sister Lizzie + Brother in Law Luke!

July 2021 | At Can Can Wonderland with Lizzie + Luke!

August 2021 | We make it back home from the 5 day roadtrip and are officially moved in together!

April 2022 | For Michael's 27th birthday, Katie buys them a visit to a cat café where we meet someone real special...🥹

April 2022 | Michael's 27th birthday party!

May 2022 | Seeing Garbage and Tears for Fears on a very rainy evening at Blossom Music Center

May 2022 | Michael + a teensy Lenore

October 2022 | Katie's 31st birthday/Halloween (we we're Alicent Hightower + Viserys Targaryen

February 2023 | Another Michael drawing (a meme from Love Island)

June 2023 | Back in Spokane for a wedding!

June 2023 | In Spokane with Michael's family!

June 2023 | At Mt. Rainer

June 2023 | In Seattle visiting some of Michael's pals!

October 2023 | Another Katie birthday, another couples costume! This year we were Maxine + Pearl

December 2024 | NYE!

April 2024 | Watching the solar eclipse together!

June 2024 | In Spokane celebrating the marriage of Michael's sister Lizzie to her new husband Luke! (featuring all of Michael's siblings Lizzie, John, and Lauren)

September 2024 | Michael playing Halo at Chuck E. Cheese with Katie's nephew Jace (featuring her sister in law , Lucy)

October 2024 | Katie's Halloween birthday party yet again! This year we're Longlegs + Agent Harker

December 2024 | Michael very intently (and intensely) decorating a gingerbread house with Katie's nieces and nephews

March 2025 | St. Patty's Day; Michael picked up the drumsticks to play with the West Side Irish American Club 🇮🇪

April 2025 | We start picking out a diamond for the ring 💍

May 2025 | Michael's 30th birthday party! 🥳

June 2025 | In Key West at Ernest Hemingway's House 🌴🐈

June 2025 | Hangin' at a Sand Bar in Key West

July 2025 | Celebrating July 4th with Grandma Bea ❤️

July 2025 | Thumbs UP for 4th of July with Katie's family! 👍

July 2025 | Katie returns home from a work trip and Michael proposes!

July 2025 | ✨ Michael's proposal setup ✨ (fun fact: he made that sign by hand)

July 2025 | Sign made by Katie's Sister Tina ✍️