Nevada Fall Homecoming 2014. At the first party of the school year, Andrew was thrown into Leia's life quite literally (iykyk) and the rest was history. We spent our crazy college years going to TKE and DG events, studying, and dreaming of our future in our first apartment together. Fall 2018. This was the start of 4.5 years of long distance. Leia began optometry school in Arizona and Andrew worked back to back harvests in Napa and Australia before beginning his Masters program at UC Davis. Throughout the years the physical distance between us varied, but not our connection. We always said that the time spent apart just made our time together in person that much more special, whether it be meeting in Bali or sheltering in place in Arizona during COVID. Many thanks to FaceTime and TSA PreCheck for getting us through. 12/1/22. During a trip to Vietnam, Andrew popped the question! It was a beautiful night on the river in Hoi An made even more special by surprising Leia with one of her Grandma Gloria’s rings. It was the most perfect trip filled with love, laughter, and bomb food. After the trip, we found out we were expecting our sweet Aletta! Andrew moved to SLO to be with Leia during her residency, ending our time of long distance and beginning our life as a family. Present day. We spend our days watching our amazing girls grow and exploring all that the beautiful Central Coast has to offer. Our lives look very different than our early days but much more full and similar to the life we dreamed of in that apartment so long ago. We're looking forward to actually calling each other husband and wife for real.