Cody and I first met sometime in middle school when we played in the Shelby baseball/softball program in La Crosse. We ended up being good friends in high school and dated briefly after we graduated in 2009. However, when we went off to college we mostly lost touch. I finished college in 2013 and worked for a year or so before I moved to Spain. Cody was finishing his degree at UW-Milwaukee. When he graduated in 2016, I had just come back to the States. I contacted a high school friend about playing coed softball in the summer and she invited me to play on her team. Little did I know that Cody was also playing on the same team! We played the first game of the summer and went out afterwards. That night was all it took! We just knew it was fate that we found our way back to each other.