Believe it or not, Kurtis and I have actually known each other since we were 12 years old. My family had just moved to Fort Worth, Texas because of my dad’s new job and we wound up right across the street from a family with kids my age. Although Kurtis and I didn’t spend much time together at first, our families became good friends (we both have two other siblings who ended up becoming close). Eventually, my family moved to a new neighborhood and I didn’t see Kurtis until several years later when we ended up in the same high school for a semester. At the time, Kurtis was a football player and was easily considered one of the “cooler” people in school (at least in my mind). I was still pretty low key at that age and stuck to reading books indoors (some may say I was a nerd. And by some people I 100% mean Kurtis). Fast forward another few years and we are both in college. I was sitting around, scrolling through Facebook, and had the bright idea to shoot my shot and send this handsome guy a message. From there, we began spending all our time together and eventually decided to “make things official” in January of 2016. In July of 2018, I moved away to Galveston for school but Kurtis and I have been managing the distance and are closer than ever.