Our first date... 12/14/17. After what seemed like months of both Cole & Emily playing hard to get, Cole finally asked Emily out to dinner the week before finals in the fall of 2017. During this time Emily was in her junior year and Cole was in his credential year at Fresno Pacific. How Cole & Emily initially met was through the college group on Sunday nights at RMBC. From there sparked a friendship that didn't turn into something more until Cole picked up Emily to go to BJs on December 14th. After eating a nice dinner and pazookie, and getting the nervous jitters out. Cole decided to ask Emily out for coffee. However, because they had just eaten they decided to go to Christmas Tree Lane instead. BUT when Cole & Emily got there the line was too long. So they sat in the car deciding what to do. Emily remembered a story Cole told her once of him being really bored one lazy Saturday afternoon in Fresno. The story goes that Cole was bored at FPU one day so he decided to go to the Fresno pet cemetery for fun. As Emily remebered this story she joked that both of them should go there on their first date. Cole joked back. Then things got silent. A coin toss was mentioned. Then the unthinkable happened. The coin toss resulted in tails being face up, meaning God obviously wanted them to go to the pet cemetery for their first date. Because both Cole & Emily were adventurous people (and they didn't want to deflect from the will of God) they decided to go for it! After that the rest is history. Cole & Emily ended up going to the pet cemetery for just a little bit that night. A few weeks went by and Cole & Emily became official on December 26th, dated for a few years, and then Cole popped the question on October 13th, 2019. We still both joke about this funny story to this day, and laugh at ourselves that our first date ended up at a pet cemetery. But in all reality, God soverignly placed us together at the right point in time to grow and prepare us for each other in marriage.