Our First Picture! Our unofficial first date. I insisted we went to Fritz's in Crown Center because the food-delivering trains are a KC must-see.

Tacos! Jonathan introduced me to the amazingness of tacos. Our third official date to Tacos el Guero in downtown KC.

Made it Official! became officially official over fondue at The Melting Pot

Moved Me in! Johnny helped move me into my college dorm in Springfield before heading off himself to Idaho to begin school at BYU

Facetime Many. Many. Many Facetimes. All day, every day.

Reunited! Closed the distance during Shay's fall break. Spent time together in Idaho, toured BYU, and spent a day at Yellowstone! We drove the 18 hours home to KC, and spent the holidays together and with our families.

Back to School :( Separated again, and back to only seeing each other's faces on endless FaceTimes

Christmas Time! Met back in KC again for Christmas break! Really excited to be together again and start new Christmas traditions.

Surprise! You really never know what life is going to throw you, and we definitely weren't expecting this. But it was the greatest surprise ever, and the start to an amazing journey.

It's a BOY! Between gender reveals, going back and forth between school and working, we were exhausted! But that never stopped us from spending time together. Before we knew it we were halfway to the end.

Maternity pictures! Our first family photos

Baby Day Luca Max was born at 5:34 pm and our little family was complete

Mr. Max Watching our little man grow every day

House! Bought a house and officially were homeowners

Mexico! All the house shopping and house closing were stressful! So we hopped on a plane and flew to Mexico

ONE! Mr. Max turned one!

Proposal!? Finally made it official, of course, during the best month of the year - October