Derek and I became close friends in Junior year of high school. Senior year, Derek made a pact with me that if we didn't have dates by prom, we would go with each other. I don't think either of us expected to find dates and knew that was just Derek's quiet shy way of asking me to prom.

In September of 2014, we made it official and started dating!

The summer after Derek and I graduated college we went on a cross country road trip. We got to visit places we had always wanted to see and saw lots of friends along the way.

Things got even more real when Derek went on his first Vine Vacation Beach Trip to Garden City, South Carolina, a trip he has now been on many many times.

Derek and I bought a house in 2020 and adopted our first baby, Pierogi in February of 2021!

Derek proposed in North Hampton, MA at the top of the Mt. Holyoke Summit!

We added our crazy Cannoli to the family the summer of 2022!!