We're getting married!

The two of us met back in 2012 at Clackamas High School. I was 15 years old when the 17 year old HS class president decided to offer me a ride home from school. From there the next few months were filled with dates to haunted houses and thrift stores while singing to Macklemore and Chance The Rapper in Lucas's old black Jeep Cherokee. Though it took awhile, he finally worked up the courage to ask me to be his girlfriend. He did it on my birthday leaning against his car outside on my parents driveway with "Crazy Girl" by Eli Young Band playing in the background.

We took a trip to Italy as one last hurrah before I started my graduate program. We were in Tuscany on a wine tasting tour. We were at our last winery, Querceto di Castellina, for the day before heading over to Siena. We were finishing our tasting, and Lucas suggested we get a glass of our favorite wine from the tasting, 'The Laura,' and take a walk through the vineyard. We walked up to this stunning hillside where Lucas asked to take a picture. He set up a phone on a picnic table, but instead of setting up a timed picture, he took a video, and we got to capture the most perfect moment of him asking me to be his wife. When we looked back at the video, we found that two words into his proposal, construction began, and we could barely hear his speech! Neither of us noticed in the moment, but it gave us a great memory to laugh about.