One of the Initial Dates! A blushing Jeffrey disagrees that he could be one of the hot rescue team.

Look at how cute his face is!! His smiley eye crinkles are one of my favorite Jeffrey features. This was the day I started to fall in love.

The beginning of our American Gothic tradition. It's just natural.

We're both super in love now. He is the most loving person I've ever met. He sees me and loves all of me

This is how I saw Jeffrey for our first year over facetime. Long distance love worked well for us because Jeffrey is such a good communicator. Also because he's super cute.

Post Mel graduation, both working independently yay! Date to an art festival a couple weeks before everything shut down

Vermont dreams of what our future could be started here in the privilege of a three week stay. Eatin' treats and sniffin' trees. It quickly became an important place.

After a long time during the lockdown of learning how to live with each other, we got our own place in Astoria. This is our view.

We got engaged on our supposed anniversary. It was a lovely significant surprise to Melanie. Jeffrey was very nervous. I thought he was being really dramatic just for pictures and I still don't know what he said, struggling to get his words out through emotion and a mask.

We adopted Thoomaaaaaaassssss!! Melanie wanted a cat for a long time but still didn't know what they were getting into. Jeffrey now has two cats that fight for dominance.