We met on the cross country and track team at Messiah University, where our love first started. We began hanging out nonstop and on October 7th, 2022 I asked Julia to be my girlfriend at Children's Lake in Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania.

Fast forward a few months, and we spent Christmas break together visiting each other's families!

One thing that made our love grow stronger was spending time in the outdoors together!

The end of our sophomore year :( As the semester came to a close, it was time for me to go home to Massachusetts and we had a summer of long distance.

Over the course of the summer we managed to see each other for short periods of time. It even included the Bauman family trip to Puerto Rico!

Our junior year began, and we were busy with cross country and school, but we still managed to find time to go fishing on the weekends!

Josh's first Christmas with the Rickard family!

The day I proposed to this lovely lady. She said yes!

The day we picked our wedding venue-Farm 1840. We are so excited to start our lives together!