Some of our first interactions never would have had me thinking I was looking at my future wife. For example, I watched her scoot across the room in a rolling chair, with no wheels making a very loud grating noise covered by her own laughter of course. Or that time she called me Scott before she learned my name. Her smile was so large I found it difficult to be upset with her. Our first date was a classic, coffee. To this day, Anna and I still love going to coffee shops for dates but will normally bring along one of our favorite games to play while we are there.

Today, Anna and I both work for the same company as Geologists where we both find joy in getting to do our own niches for a living. Anna constantly finds herself on large boats getting to explore marine geology, while battling the cold and being sea sick.

On the flip side, I generally find myself on an airboat somewhere playing in the mud of coastal Louisiana. The struggle of not getting a big bald head sunburned in the middle of the Louisiana Summer is not a struggle I would wish on anyone.