If we were to go back to the VERY beginning, our story would start freshman year at Iowa State. I (Julia) was one of the only freshmen girls playing in the Greek life Homecoming week co-ed basketball tournament. We were playing Phi Psi and I took a charge against an over 6 ft giant Phi Psi man and Kyler happened to see it. He told one of my sorority sisters, "That girl is a baller."

Fast forward to our junior year at Iowa State TKE (Kyler’s fraternity) and Kappa (my sorority) ended up being paired for Varieties together. For those of you that don't know, Varieties is like a 20 minute musical that groups of sororities and fraternities pair up and compete against in the winter. My two friends, Macy and Olivia, ended up dropping being co-chair so Kyler and I became really good friends through three a week practices, Walmart runs, and eventually only getting third place. :(

Our first date was to a golf simulator in Ames and then driving down to Raising Cane's in West Des Moines. Eventually Kyler decided that this should be the real thing and asked me to be his girlfriend in the Merle Hay Hyvee parking lot after going to dinner with my parent's at Trostel's Greenbriar. That was May 7, 2019 and we have been pretty inseparable since then.

Kyler and I enjoy golfing, trips to Florida, weekends at the lake, Iowa State football and basketball games, and spending time with friends and family. We had plans to go golfing at TCI on September 8th with his friend, Evan, since I had been asking to play all summer. When we went to check in Kyler had realized he made the tee-time for the night before (whoopsies!), but we still got on luckily. His friend, Evan, never showed up (as planned), but we had a blast anyway and also played the worst round of golf of our lives. On hole 6 I almost had a hole-in-one, it stopped a foot from the hole. I think if it had gone in he would have had to propose then because I had been joking all summer that I was going to get a hole-in-one and then he'd get down on one knee. On hole 7 he went in the water and ended up “lining up my putt for me” on the green. After putting (and missing) he told me to turn around and he was down on one knee. After asking “really?!" about 20 times, I eventually said yes!!!

From a co-ed basketball tournament to a surprise proposal on the golf course, our love story went from courtside to a hole-in-one, and we can't wait to spend forever together. <3