January 2020 Ashley & Kevin match on Hinge – instantly connecting around their years at UCSC, love of basketball, and mutual friends. Then, after two months of dating, covid hits California. Suddenly, Ashley is quarantined at Kevin's house in Campbell, staying there for the majority of the next six months through varying states of lockdown. A make or break moment, there was no denying an instant connection that withstood the test of quarantine and WFH life. Moving into Ashley's grandmother's childhood home in Santa Cruz in October of 2020, the couple now shares the space with their puppy, Bubbles aka Bubs. November 2021, Kevin takes Ashley on a trip to her family cabin in Twain Harte, CA where he decides to pop the question while on Bub's first walk.