Julia and Rees met in the summer of 2018 at Colorado State University. Julia was working as a lab operator at the time, helping students with computer & printing issues. Rees would be in the computer lab finishing his construction management degree requirements. He remembers working in the labs on a summer evening, when Julias' 10 week old blue heeler puppy, Roni, came up to him, gave him a lick, and looked up at him. Julia came around the corner and said sorry for Roni bothering him, but Rees thought he was a nice distraction from what he was working on. Roni got the two of them talking! Fast forward to the Fall of 2018, Julia was still working as the Construction Management lab operator and had picked up the majority of the afternoon/evening shifts so she could still attend classes during the day. Rees was in his final semester at CSU, and ended up pretty much living in that computer lab working on his senior capstone project. Rees would end up bugging Julia in between breaks from his work and interrupting Julia's important lab op business (or occasional netflix show when it was slow). In September of that year, Rees got up the courage to ask Julia out for ice cream. He approached her desk with the perfect conversation topics to lead him to asking her out, but right as he was about to, another student came up with a printer issue. A little flustered, Rees went back to his computer, thinking he'll have to try again later. Rees looked up from his computer later that evening and saw Julia leaving out the double doors as she was done with her shift. He jumped up out of his chair and ran down the stairwell, catching Julia on the phone at the bottom of the stairs and blurted out "Would you like to go out sometime?"! Julia said yes, and they've been together ever since! Later on, Rees would come find out that Julia happened to be on the phone with her mom in that stairwell, talking about how a cute guy came up to her at work and was hoping he'd ask her out at some point.