Shari's parents moved to Bella Vista Arkansas while Shari was serving her mission in Slovenia. When she got home in April 2022, she started attending the Young Single Adult branch for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. There, she met Robby who came out to Arkansas for summer sales.

Robby texted Shari inviting her to play pickle ball at 9pm, after getting her phone number from their friend Addy. Shari, being a recently returned missionary, went to bed at like 9:30, shied away from any social activity, and has the sport skill level of a monkey. She also assumed that it was just a casual invite and that the whole summer sales crew would be there. She was typing a nice "maybe next time!" text when her mom came into the kitchen. "Who's that?" "Oh, someone from the YSA invited me to play Pickle ball." "Oh fun!! What time?" "Like 9. I don't think I'm going to go that's really late and-" "wow what are you, 90??? Good grief go have fun!" After being bullied by her mother for acting like a grandma, she accepted the invitation. He picked her up in his majestic echo and they went to the pickle ball courts to find them all full, and Shari was surprised to find none of the summer sale crew in sight. It did indeed seem to be a date. They spent the evening walking around Arkansas waiting for a pickle-ball court. They talked for a while and Robby showed her frogs and she was thrilled. After playing pickle-ball for a while, Shari mentioned how she had never seen fireflies and was so excited for them all to come out this summer. Robby told her that they have come out some places and offered to show them to her. And that was it. It sealed the deal. He showed me my first fireflies okay? Can it get any more magical than that? And when he dropped me off there was a TREE FROG on my front door so he caught it and I was so thrilled I had no words.