Our story began on August 18th, 2015. We literally met in the ocean at Wrightsville Beach while attending beach blast; an annual event hosted by UNCW at the beginning of the new school year. Zach was starting his sophomore year and McKenzie was beginning her freshman year. After some convincing by her roommate, McKenzie agreed to go out in the ocean to toss a ball around with a group of guys they had just met. Zach happened to be one of those guys. Little did McKenzie and Zach know that fate was throwing them an actual curve ball and that they were about to meet the love of their lives. After tossing the ball around, McKenzie noticed Zach was tossing the ball to her more than the other girls. One toss led to another, and small talk was shared. Soon after numbers were exchanged, and the texting began. Zach invited McKenzie to a get together at his apartment a few days later, which, by the way, she did not attend but decided later to meet up with him and his friends for tacos at a local restaurant called Islands. The two began to hang out more with each passing day. Zach showing McKenzie around campus; McKenzie baking Zach a chocolate cake for his 19th birthday. Over the next couple of months, the two became inseparable and sometime in late October they decided to make it official and began dating. And the rest, as they say, is history.....