It was a sunny, summer evening in June of 2016 and our intramural softball teams were playing each other. Depending on who tells the story, Ty will say he hit "dingers" all night and Ky will tell the truth about how her team crushed his! We often laugh about "the chase" from the first few weeks of our summer internship at Whirlpool Corporation, but after spending a weekend together at a country music festival called Birthday Bash, the rest is history. At the end of the summer, Tyler went back to Indiana University and Kylie went back to Michigan State where our long distance journey started. We spent about 3.5 years in a long distance relationship traveling between Michigan, Indiana, Alabama, Texas, Tennessee and Kentucky! When Kylie was finally able to move to Nashville to be with Tyler in February of 2020, who would've guessed that a global pandemic would break out shortly thereafter! We went from 3.5 years of hardly ever seeing each other to every. waking. second. spent together in quarantine - we figured if we could make it through that, we could make it through anything and here we are - ready to get married!! :)