It all started with a swipe! In December 2018, I had just returned from Australia and was about to start my final semester at WVU. David had just moved back to WV and was living in Preston, but traveling to Morgantown daily to work out and stay with Doug. After our five hour first date at Dunkin' Donuts and a NYE celebration, our relationship officially began.

We bonded over our mutual love of sports both as spectators and participants, and have built an active lifestyle together that allows us to support one another as teammates and encourage one another to achieve our individual goals. We have attended countless WVU and Pittsburgh sporting events (supporting them all but the Steelers). We support one another in playing slowpitch and beer league ice hockey and previously in football and basketball leagues. After quarantining together, we even began our journey coaching middle school softball together as a team. We are also far too competitive with one another in pickleball, golf, kickball, disc golf, and random yard games. David, as a previous strength coach and strongman competitor, brought me back into the gym culture and it has led us to meet so many incredible people.

We have been living together for 5 years as our family slowly has taken shape to include our adorable dog Roxy, our sassy and independent cat Reese, and our wild child cat Raj.

When we had been together for 5 years, David finally proposed with the help of Mandy. They had arranged a photo shoot at Cooper's Rock to get "summer pictures" (despite the fact that we have hundreds of beach photos together). Mandy artfully posed David to display the ring without showing it to me before I finally turned around and he was down on one knee. With my decision to leave teaching and attend law school, David and I had an intimate courthouse wedding ceremony with family, but we are so excited to share a larger, more traditional celebration with our friends and family!