We met for the first time at Lake of the Ozarks at a friend's house. We didn't interact much at this time, but little did we know, our paths would cross down the road. Our first time actually spending any time together was when Laney (Madeline's "sister"-for all intents and purposes) invited her then boyfriend (now husband) down to Madeline's house for the weekend. He decided to bring Michael with him to meet everyone and hang-out. Of course, Laney was playing match maker and we didn't know it. We started out just hanging out on weekends with groups of our friends and things progressed into us actually dating later on.