Tyler and Rebecca connected the way that everyone does nowadays... on Bumble! Rebecca had just moved to North Carolina a couple of weeks prior for graduate school and wasn't looking for anything serious. After exchanging messages about zombies and sushi, they met in person for the first time on Sunday for an afternoon coffee. If you asked Tyler what the first thing he noticed about Rebecca was, he would say that it was how she "sparkled", referencing a very sparkly eye-shadow. Rebecca and Tyler sat in the North Carolina heat for three hours, talking about everything from their families to aspirations. Tyler called Rebecca later that evening and scheduled a second date, for sushi, on Wednesday. After a third date that Saturday, Rebecca and Tyler knew that this would be something more than one Bumble date. After making it through graduate school, they moved in together as they both started new jobs in North Carolina. Eight months after moving in, they adopted two fur-babies, Kuma and Juniper and grew their little family.