As told by Cecily:

Early 2021, Jansen posted a tattoo picture on Instagram and I slid into his DM's and told him that his new tattoo was "sick". Nothing happened after that, except he gave me his snapchat name. I decided I would add him on snapchat but that was it. Then he started to message me on snapchat more and more. We found out we had similar beliefs and started doing Bible plans together. Occasionally, he would ask to hangout or ask to take me on a date. I told him I had "vicious" pitbulls who didn't like men, so I couldn't hang out. After months of asking, he wore me down and I told him we could "hangout", but it was definitely not a date. He took me to Lure fish house on August 21, 2021. After our "not date dinner", we drove to the beach and walked along the sand. We then hopped into the back of his truck bed and downloaded a star app and started tracking constellations. We stayed out until we got too cold and then he drove me home. The next day, he came to church with me, we went to breakfast, and then went to the animal shelter, where he ended up adopting Scout! Too bad my "vicious" pitbulls didn't do their job and ended up loving him, which just meant he kept on coming back. He is persistent, and that is just one of the qualities that I love about him. He goes after what he wants. Which also meant he didn't quit until I was his. October 3, 2021, we officially became boyfriend and girlfriend. Little did we know, exactly a year later, our little bundle of joy Rae would be born on that exact same day. Here's to our forever...

As told by Jansen:

From the moment I first laid eyes on Cecily, I knew there was something special about her. For the longest time I wanted to make my move and ask for her out on a date, but I never had the courage to do so, she is WAY out of my league if you couldn't tell. Luckily for me, she's got a thing for tattoos and I happen to have quite a few of them. One night she replied to an instagram story that I posted, which just happened to be a new tattoo I had gotten, and with liquid encouragement, I gave her my snapchat. This was in April of 2021. For the next 5(ish) months or so, we talked just about everyday. It started as just random conversations and such and eventually led to us doing Bible plans together, calling each other randomly throughout the day about something that happened, or just having good conversation with each other. Finally, in late August of 2021, she agreed to go out to dinner and "hangout" with me. The entire night, she ensured me it was NOT a date and that we were just friends hanging out and having dinner together. Even mentioned that she would NEVER date someone in the military (we see how well that worked out for her...). After dinner, we drove the PCH and eventually stopped at some random beach in Malibu and we walked on the beach, and then sat on a lifeguard tower and had deep conversation about our lives. Nearing the end of the night, I could tell she didn't even believe herself when she said it wasn't a date. Moving on, we talked every day, all day until we finally became "official" on October 3rd. From the very beginning of our relationship, I knew that what we had/have was something special and very early on, I knew that I had found my forever. While knowing what I knew, we still wanted to take things slow and experience every thing that comes with a relationship. We wanted to travel, we wanted to see new places and try new things, and I would confidently say we did all of those things, there really wasn't much we would say no to trying. And then February 9th, 2022 came, which is when we found out that Cecily was pregnant with our little bundle of joy, Raelynn Lane. Mind you, I had to move for work at the end of February. 9 months later our beautiful little girl was born and she is something else I tell ya. Our journey has been so much fun and full of joy, happiness, love, trial and error, and I wouldn't have it any other way. Our journey is only at the beginning and every single day, I fall more in love with the life we have and my future wife. I can't wait to look back in 70 years and see how far we come and every thing we get to do and experience. Heres to forever, with my forever...

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