We met at DQ after Michael got hired, when we were just 17 and 18 years old…still learning who we were, still growing into ourselves. I was training Michael, unaware that such a small, ordinary moment would quietly become the beginning of everything. In 2021, Michael gave me a promise ring, a quiet vow, made before we fully understood how deeply love could stretch and shape us. In 2023, we welcomed our baby boy, and in becoming parents together, our love softened, deepened, and rooted itself in something far greater than us. In 2025, we welcomed our baby girl, and our love expanded once more. We’ve grown up together, through every season, learning how to love, support, and choose one another over and over again. April 21st 2025, Michael proposed after asking my dad for his blessing. From that first hello to the life still ahead of us, our story is far from finished.