Welcome!

We met in the Vinita High School band room. The first day of school my senior year. We noticed each other but were both pretty shy. He was new to the Vinita school district. We hit it off as acquaintances throughout my senior year and got pretty close but nothing happened in the sense of romance.

In 2015 shortly after his high school graduation JT was diagnosed with Acute Myloid Leukemia. He was given a fairly grim diagnosis. Told his options and given his choices. He chose to fight the cancer. He spent a significant amount of time in and out of the hospital. His family sacrificed quite a bit in order to ensure that he did not have to fight this deadly disease alone. He was treated with chemotherapy, radiation, and a haplo bone marrow transplant that ultimately saved his life. As of September 2020. JT is considered cured of AML. We are all extremely thankful for modern medications and the doctors who saved his life, as well as his amazing father who donated the bone marrow for the transplant.

We have been through a significant amount of life altering things during our years of knowing one another. We have had our ups and downs not only as individuals but as friends and then eventually as a new relationship. We met in 2012 and didn't go on our first official date until 2018. (not for lack of trying by both of us, let that be known.) We had, on numerous occasions, discussed the "what if's" that come with dating your best friend. When finally we reached the decision that we couldn't keep waiting on the "what if's" and both decided to move forward into the unknown. We have not looked back since then.