In 2017, Steph was playing a popular online game called Overwatch as the healer character Mercy when she was in a match with a guy she ended up playing a few games with. A few days later, he messages her on Xbox saying some friends of his, two brothers, wanted to play and could use a good healer so she joined their group. Over the next few months, the group of four play nearly every day eventually adding each other on Facebook and creating a group chat minus Gus since he didn't have one.

At some point the brothers, Gus and Rudy, mention that they live in Washington, just outside of Portland which is just a short three hour drive from where Steph lived near Seattle. More time goes by and Steph finds Gus' humor and personality endearing and develops a crush on him despite not knowing what he looks like yet! She begins sleuthing through Rudy's Facebook trying to figure out which person was Gus.

Over the summer, Rudy's daughter got married and he sent a picture of him and Gus dressed up in suits in the gaming group chat. Later, Steph would tell Gus her reaction to that first photo, "oh no, I'm in trouble". Shortly after they exchange Snapchat info and begin talking every day, sending silly pictures to each other throughout the day.

At this point, Steph has moved to the other side of the state now a six hour drive away. Gus goes in a white water rafting trip with his niece and her new husband and it was at this point Steph made her intentions more clear. Before he left for the trip Steph sent him a message that said "don't die I'll miss you" and that's when Gus knew that she was going to be his girl.

A few weeks later, Steph planned a trip to finally meet Gus in Vancouver, WA and as they say, the rest is history! In May of 2022, Steph and Gus took a trip to Disney World with her parents where he popped the question under the Magic Kingdom fireworks.

They have two dogs, Dakota and Sazed, and a bunch of goats they enjoy spending time with. They also still play video games together almost every day.