Jakob would say our story started freshman year of college when he already knew he wanted to marry me. I say that's false since we never even talked to each other until sophomore year, let alone I hardly knew who he was as a freshman. So I would say our story started around Christmas of sophomore year, although I suppose it technically started in the fall when we would hangout together among friends at rowing parties and studying in Ryan Hall.

After a few months of intermittent hangouts and a dedicated snapchat streak, the annual rowing ugly Christmas sweater party rolls around. My teammate Megan and I thought we would be original by pasting copies of our faces on each other's sweaters. I decided to take it one step further and glue a hilarious picture of Jakob's face under Megan's face, allowing me to flash the crowd with his face when I lifted the cutout of Megan. So I did just this and roasted Jakob in front of all his friends at the party. Apparently, he interpreted this as me flirting with him…don't know where he got that idea from. He then decided to make his move with some phenomenal dance skills and we ended up hanging out till 5am that night.

A few more late nights like this then we parted for winter break. I still wasn't convinced anything was going to become of us, until the rowing formal two months later. It was that night we decided to make things official. However, I told him we should wait two weeks before telling anyone, especially my dad (our coach!), just to give us a chance to feel things out. Well, guess who panic walked into my dad's office immediately after morning practice the next day - Jakob. So guess who had to nervously walk into his office that afternoon because Jakob blew our plan of telling him together - me. Obviously he gave him the scared talk but it didn't keep Jakob away.

Six months later, late at night Teagan, Jakob, and I were walking back to the dorms, and without even asking, Jakob put an exhausted half-asleep Teagan to bed in his own room and sets us up on the couches. It was that moment that I knew he would not only always respect me, but always put my family first too. We said I love you that night.

We have now been dating for 5 years and have survived college, rowing, med school, and long distance together. We also adopted Lilly (our ball-obsessed golden retriever) in the fall of 2020! On February 8th, 2023, Jakob (once again) panic proposed to me 3 days ahead of schedule. I was so stunned that I couldn't say anything until we got in the car and he goes "so is that a yes?" ...oops. Took me quite a while to get planning given that he proposed to me right before starting my third year of med school, but now that we've got the ball rolling we're excited to celebrate with you all next April!

We don't know where our story will take us, and we will quite literally find out in March where we will be moving to for residency, but we know that as long as we are together, we can turn any new adventure into a fun time and hope that we can always count on you all to be there with us ☺