I first met Avery at the Shamrock House. Sydney had a game night, and Avery came over. I don't really remember her from that, but I do remember that she followed me on Instagram after. I kept asking Sydney who this girl was (thinking she was really pretty), but Sydney (the worst wingwoman ever) would tell me, "Oh, that's Avery," and drop it after that.

We went on Salt's Ski trip during our freshman year of college, and Avery invited me to play a game with them one night. I was very interested in her, but I wasn't sure if she was interested in me. The next day, her friends said that we should ski together. We did, and got to talk on the chairlift quite a bit. As she was pulling out of the ski trip, I asked my sister for her number, and we talked pretty much all the way home.

We went on two dates, one of them on her birthday. I bought her a gift and probably jumped into things faster than she liked. I would've said she broke up with me, but Avery would argue that she couldn't have done that since we weren't dating.

A lot of time went by, and we spent a lot of time around each other between Salt, church, and her living with my sister.

This past year, I was shooting a video for some family friends on their boat, and they offered us tickets to the volleyball game at Memorial Stadium. The problem was that there were only four tickets, which didn't leave one for me. As I was helping move things out of Sydney's house, Avery mentioned knowing of a few extra tickets. I took that ticket and sat with my family. I texted her to thank her for the ticket after the game, and she didn't really end the conversation, so we joked around about the game a little bit.

While we were texting, Avery lobbed one that I didn't catch the hint on until she mentioned that she was interested in me. I was pretty shocked and excited but tried to keep it cool like I knew it was coming (really, I had no idea). So, while Sydney and Colton were trying to pack up and move to Wyoming, I snuck out to walk with Avery and talked for quite a while. The next day I drove a trailer to Wyoming and didn't see her for a week (I thought that was a really, really long week). Then, when I got back, there was an open room for me to move to Lincoln, so I got a job and moved in.

I remember specifically going on a run one afternoon with Avery, and she told me that she was nervous about jumping into the dating title. We had been going out for quite a while, and I told her that we'd been spending a lot of time together; we might as well call it as it is. Avery thought about it for a few more days, and we made it official after that.

A few months later, I proposed, and now we're getting married!