We met in middle school when we were just teens learning to navigate life. We had some classes together and had many mutual friends but it still took us a while to connect (a shy one Ventura was). One calm and warm evening we went to the movies with friends and found love was in the air. We ended up playing arcade games while talking about all the things we liked to do. That same night Ventura realized that Maria was the love of his life and, with sweaty palms and stuttering lips, he asked her to be his girlfriend. The rest is history. We joked then about spending our lives together and now in what seems like a blink of an eye, here we are. Since then we have both graduated college, Ventura bought a house, Maria graduated law school, and we are both well into our careers. We have three fur babies that we adore, and many plant babies, and we cannot wait to continue to build our lives together