Trey's Point of View:

Our song is a slamming screen door. Sneakin out late. Tapping on her window. When we're on the phone, she talks real slow. Because its late and nobody in our families know.

The way Hannah and I met is like a spider web. It started in so many different places, that I feel the need to give people a map when I tell them how we met.

Hannah and I were introduced via the inter-webs from a friend of mine in high school in Coeur d'Alene who went to college with Hannah at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, AZ. Hannah claims she had fallen in love with me the moment she saw a picture of me on instagram in January 2019 (we wouldn't end up meeting until June of the same year). Once that school year had ended, Hannah went back to Great Falls, MT to pack her belongings and move to Hood River, OR for her "find myself" summer. To get there, she had to travel through CDA and stay a night to break up the trip. Her grand scheme was to post an instagram story in Coeur d'Alene in hopes that I would see it and fall into her trap. Being a young, dashingly handsome yet dumb male, I didn't get the hint and went about my normal routine of getting paid to enjoy the lake.

Fast forward a few weeks, and Hannah DM'd me with a comment referencing one of my favorite comedians at the time. I was immediately intrigued. Her comment gained traction and we began talking daily to get to know each other more. Three weeks later she invited herself to CDA and I was thrilled she was willing to make the drive and come meet someone she had only talked to through a screen. After our initial in-person introduction (albeit awkward thanks to me) things went off without a hitch. We went water skiing, skate boarding, and tandem biking followed by a peaceful afternoon at the lake cabin and a sunset dinner on the deck. We didn't clarify if we were going to continue seeing each other after that weekend but we both assumed we'll see where it goes.

The following week, my family celebrates my late father's ceremony of life and arrive home to unpack just in time for me to tell my grieving and stressed mother that a girl I've been talking to will arrive in about 15 mins. To put this all into perspective, Hannah who I've know for maybe a month and potentially had forgotten to tell my mother about, was about to be at our lake cabin again and meet my entire family. I would say that people typically introduce their significant other to their family somewhat gradual. You know, like wading into deep water. Well, Hannah jumped right into the deep end and got to meet every one of my siblings, nephews, and niece in one go. They all loved her, of course. To add to that, Hannahs dad was passing through Coeur d'Alene and wanted to see his daughter and so he joined in on the family fun as well. Hannah and I still had not decided if we were going to be a long term thing, let alone forever.

After an incredible first summer together filled with lake days, camping, a coastal trip, and many miles spent behind the wheel to see each other, it was time to go back to school. I went back to Bozeman, MT to finish up my last year of undergraduate and Hannah was off to GCU to start her nursing program. We managed to see each other very often for being states away and I believe that is why we were able to make long distance work for 2 years.

After we both graduated, it was time for us to live in the same city and we mutually chose Boise, ID. Our love for the outdoors as well as the city amenities drew us here along with close friends to start our adult journey. Hannah immediately found a job at St. Lukes Hospital as nurse while I took the more conservative route and enjoyed the unemployed life for probably too long.

Since moving to Boise, we each have found our stride in fruitful careers, have a group of loving friends we couldnt live without, and our most recent addition has been an oopsie fur baby named Lowman who we adore more than anything.

Hannah's Point of View:

Well, after reading Trey's insert, I don't think I can top that but I will try and fill in some gaps. Trey was right, I stumbled across a photo of him over Christmas break during my sophomore year of college and knew I needed to find out more information about him. I immediately went to my friend who knew him and gathered as many details about him as I could. Over the following months, with much thought about him, my friend and I schemed up a plan to get his attention. Call me crazy, but I knew what I wanted. LOL!

Sadly, my first plan didn't work. But that didn't stop me. Wow I'm sounding crazier the more I type this out. A few weeks went by and before I knew it, I was sneaking into the walk-in freezer at work to answer his messages. As you all know; Trey is the kindest and most selfless person you know and that shined through even via phone. A few days later I was on my drive to CDA. My maid of honor; Shelby, can attest to this. The 5 hour drive that felt like an eternity, I was on the phone with her talking myself out of going. Saying things like, What if he kidnaps me? I didn't tell my parents I was going, what if I go missing?

The second I walked into the door to see this personal celebrity of mine, he asked me, What do you want do? I said Well... I don't know, I'm not the one who lives here. He decided to take me on his favorite drive (which ended up just being a road in CDA that is in fact not his favorite drive). He was stumbling over his words and was very nervous. I mean I was too, but I was better at hiding it.

We spent the weekend together, talking about everything under the moon, doing activities together, enjoying a sunset and a night at his cabin, and laughing our asses off together. I knew I loved him immediately and low and behold I found out a few weeks later he did too. I was borrowing his notebook for nursing school stuff and accidentally found a letter addressed to me expressing his love for me 2 weeks after we had met. Sorry Trey, but youve been exposed.

Our summer love affair came to end when I left to go back to college. In our 2 years of long distance we never went a month without seeing each other, We traveled all over the country together and did our best to web our lives together even from 2,000 miles away.

Fast forward 4 years, and our lives together simply could not be better. We have grown up together and traveled around the world. We are living in the same place, under the same roof with our new puppy. I can't wait to marry Trey; whom I love more than anything and anyone. Cheers to us!