Our story begins in the spring of 2023 with an unofficial setup. I say "unofficial" because Chase and Lauren still to this day swear that it was never their intention to set us up - but they aren't disappointed it happened.

Here's how it happened:

After a long week of school, Lauren invited me out for supper one night. As we were waiting for our food, here comes Chase to sit with us. He wasn't alone either - he had brought his close friend... Tyler. Throughout the next few weeks, the group of us ended up going out a couple more times and at that point I was interested in getting to know him better but way to scared to actually make any sort of a move. Thankfully Paige had my back. Meeting up for a girls night and seeing Tyler with his friends a few tables down, I mentioned to her that I thought he was cute. Those few little words were all Paige needed to take matters into her own hands. Before I could even register what was going on, Paige had stood up, waved her arms wildly in the air and yelled: TYLER GET OVER HERE! Fortunately, Tyler didn't turn around and run out the door, but rather came over and talked with us for a while. Once he left, Paige snatched my phone and added him on Snapchat.

After talking on Snapchat and continuing to hang out in groups of friends together, we ended up going on our first date in late April, and in June made our relationship "official." Since then we have enjoyed riding razor, hiking, building puzzles/legos, and hanging out with our friends and family.

We are so excited to celebrate the next chapter of our lives with all the people that we love!