Chad and I met the second day after freshmen move in at Colorado School of Mines. Our school has a tradition of hiking to the top of a mountain with a 10 pound rock and place it on the Mines "M". Chad came to my dorm room the next day, burnt to a crisp, asking for aloe vera. He then kept appearing our of nowhere: my dorm room to borrow a pair of scissors, scaring me in a study room on Halloween, and even the basketball courts to shoot around. In the spring, we were placed on the same IM basketball team, and I realized I could not get away from this guy, and I quickly found out that I didn't want to get away from him. We started dating our second semester of freshmen year, and the rest is history! We got engaged on a week long camping trip in Utah. Since then we have adopted our cat, Dolly P. And we cannot wait to start the rest of our lives together with our little family!