Both of us knew of each other in high school, but we never really talked or had any connection with one another. At some point during high school we had an ag class together, but that was the extent of our high school relationship.

At the very end of January 2022, Colton messaged Alana on Facebook. Within a week, we were going on our first date to Macados. As nervous as we both were for our first date, it went so well. It wasn't hard to make conversation and we started to find things that we had in common really quickly. After we ate, we drove around for hours before we ended up back at Colton's house to watch a movie. It didn't take long at all before we were hanging out every chance we got. We both knew that we had something special and we still do.

Within the first year of dating, we went to 4 weddings together. We were thankful to be able to attend all four with each other. It feels so surreal that we are about to experience our own wedding in June!

We spent our first Christmas together in the hospital because Alana had to have an emergency surgery to remove her appendix. Colton barely left Alana's side during the whole thing.

On February 23rd, 2024, Colton popped the question and Alana said YES! We were at home in our pjs and it was perfect. We decided to have a long engagement so Alana could finish up grad school. After a year of being engaged, we are still giddy and are getting more and more eager to upgrade to husband / wife status!