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Christmas day, 2021 following our engagement the night before.

The trip that started our favorite tradition– exploring a place in the US we've never been every 4th of July. Here, Estes Park Colorado just before getting lost on the trek to the summit of Mt. Ida.

The Bean, Chicago.

Our early dating years were spent with mutual love for the Bearcats and loudly professing hatred for anyone they were playing.

Our first trip to Bear Lake

Cat. Cat. Dog. Taken while transplanting the five of us to NC in a pickup– the pets continue to put up with our antics none the wiser.

Hunting on Hannah's family farm in Ohio.

Summer 2020 each of us fulfilled individual lifelong dreams. Hannah hiking the John Muir Trail, Payne joining the Coast Guard and graduating boot camp.

Summer 2020 each of us fulfilled individual lifelong dreams. Hannah hiking the John Muir Trail, Payne joining the Coast Guard and graduating boot camp.

All of our adventures are made better with our families. Memorial day with the Giesting family, Grooms mother.

All of our adventures are made better with our families. Golfing with the Rankins, Grooms father.

All of our adventures are made better with our families. Exploring Chicago with the Motz family, Bride's father.

All of our adventures are made better with our families. Summer garden party with the Casada family, Bride's mother. (If the similarity wasn't obvious)

Christmas season 2021. Payne proposed the next day.

The morning we said goodbye to our first home in Chicago.

Beer break. Snowshoeing in Wisconsin.