When high school rolled around, we were in two separate worlds. Different friend groups, different classes, and different sports teams. Study hall of sophomore year came and the seating chart was alphabetical by last name. We ended up next to each other as strangers and quickly became best friends. During parent-teacher conferences, the teachers only concern brought up to our parents about us was our inability to focus while sitting next to each other in class. We went from best friends to officially dating on May 9, 2016- and our love story took off from there. We went through many big life events together, from graduating high school to enrolling at Grand Valley where we lived in neighboring buildings. It seemed as if each day together we grew more and more infatuated with one another. On September 28 of 2019, we went on a mystery trip that Colin had planned. This trip was 7 hours long and landed us at Pictured Rocks. I was stoked to be there, but had no idea how special the day would really be. We hiked until we made it to the peak of a rock on the lakeshore where I then saw a close friend of ours come out of some bushes with a camera. Confused to see him, I turned to Colin where I saw him on one knee. We got engaged at the place where I had my first “God moment” years before on a youth group trip. We have loved every minute of engagement and CANNOT WAIT to begin our lives together as one. June 18, 2021 can’t come soon enough and we are so blessed to have found the one in which our souls belong to. God is good, He has always been good, and He will remain good.