Gabe and I met at a college party on May 24th, 2014 at 1AM. We spent the entire night talking and discovered immediately that this was a relationship we wanted to pursue. We felt we had an instant connection which made us coin the term insta-connect later on in our relationship. We went on a few dates in the days that followed but Gabe graduated from college shortly after we met and drove back to his family home in Colorado. Meanwhile I was on my way to a summer job on an Island off the coast of New Hampshire called Star Island. Even though we were very far apart and had only known each other a couple of weeks we knew this was something special and we never lost touch over the two months we were apart. We decided in July 2014 that I would come out to visit him in Colorado for the week in between ending my summer job and starting at a new College in Superior, Wisconsin. During that week we decided that neither of us wanted to be apart from each other and because I'm a hopeless romantic I decided to forgo college and stay with Gabe in Colorado. We do want to state that while this incredibly stupid and overly romanticized course worked for us we do not recommend it, as it takes a lot of will power, compromise and a stubborn attitude to make it work no matter the obstacles. A month after we decided to live together in Colorado I discovered I was pregnant with our first child. While we were both terrified we decided that we would make it work, like I said we were stubborn. In January, 2015 we moved back to Minnesota and lived with my parents for a short time. In the beginning of May, 2015 we moved into our house. And on May 23rd, 2015 at approximately 9:32PM our son was born. Orion Edwarde James Elzi came almost exactly a year after we first met. And about two and a half years later on November 29th, 2017 at approximately 2:39PM we welcomed our daughter Odessa Cordelia Siena Elzi into this world. Somewhere in between the two kids we got engaged very casually in the way that any two people who already have a child together get engaged. "We should probably get married soon." "Agreed." So that's basically our story, it's not very traditional in any sense but it’s ours. And we wouldn’t change a single thing.