Although we both attended JMU as students, it took coming back to Harrisonburg for the homecoming game after graduation to bring us together. We hit it off that weekend but with Kelly living in Virginia and Ryan in Pennsylvania, we went our separate ways...until Santa Con. We both traveled to NYC to participate in the obligatory post-grad Santa Con experience. This is the day Kelly will say we fell in love. We broke away from the group to walk through the city as snow fell around us and we knew there was something special here. Thanks to a successful JMU football season, Ryan had a great excuse to travel to Arlington over the next few months to 'visit friends'. Once the football season ended, Kelly visited Ryan in Pennsylvania and we made it official, starting our long distance journey. Two and a half years after driving countless miles up and down I95, we moved in together in Arlington. On December 16th, 2022 Ryan proposed on one of our favorite nature walks in his hometown - five years down and forever to go.