Jeffrey and I met in 2011 over winter vacation between school terms; there was an initial spark and we spent almost everyday together that January. However, neither of us had finished college and we were studying on opposite sides of the country. So, instead of trying for the long-distance-relationship, we wrote the occasional letter and got coffee whenever we were in the same zip code. Over time, we discovered many similarities between us: we had many mutual friends, had gone to the same high school, I had played soccer with his sister growing up and my parents lived 2 miles from his parents. Later, in March 2016--after being out of touch for a year or more--I randomly invited him to attend a Shakespeare play with me (Macbeth), which he couldn't attend, but through that invitation we rekindle our friendship through coffee dates, Marvel movies, and the accumulation of power tools. Jeff's proposal was not your typical down-on-one-knee kind of deal. Infact, it was more of a casual drop into the conversation. This nonchalant proposal happened more than once and became an almost daily conversation between us. It had only been a month of kind-of-dating so I shied away from giving him a diffinitive answer, but on April 12th 2016, I'd made up my mind. My decision came tumbling out me one morning when I was having coffee with my mom (and bestfriend). I meant to let Jeff know that I had accepted first before alerting my parents to this life changing decision i had come to...but I was too excited and it got away from me. So, I had to explain to Jeff that I had told my mom that he had proposed and I had acccepted yada yada yada and ask Jeff to talk to my father, which was really important to me. My snap decision really put Jeff on the spot, but he was gracious and wonderful, while taking it all in and taking with my family. We spent 2016 engaged and got married, May 13, 2017!!!