Let's take a journey down memory lane. Follow along to see a little bit more into Trinity and Emilio's little adventure of life together.

This duo started back in Mrs. Aalbers first grade class. Emilio fell in love with this amazing girl when Mrs. Aalbers made us hold hands because we were always mean to each other. 😂 Little did we know this would become a life long forever! ♥️

Fast forward about ten years! We are officially together. After many years of walking to school together, hanging out in our neighborhood group, etc. Emilio finally asked Trinity to be his girlfriend. As Trinity's parents would say, he finally asked Trin out after coming around every day he possibly could. Here is where the beautiful journey began. We started dating July 31st 2016. Here is our first day of Sophomore year as an "official" couple. 🎉

Trin quickly knew Emilio was the FOREVER one. He started coming to all dance events even when he had no idea what was going on. He also became Sienna's "boyfriend" too.

Christmas became so fun for this couple. Our winter's became full of driving around and looking at Christmas lights. Something that allowed us to bond and have endless amounts of fun. This is still a fun little tradition we do to this day!

One of the lasts of High School. Senior Year Prom! We got to boogie on the dance floor and celebrate one of our lasts as seniors, together as always :)

🎓 GRADUATION 🎓 High school was good to us! Next stop... ❤️💛 Iowa State University 💛❤️

We took on Chicago together after we graduated high school. We got to attend the Valenzuela family vacation :) Many memories were made and we were on a high note going into college in a couple of weeks.

🧨 We became official Iowa Staters and went Campaniling at ISU. 🧨

Freshmen year at ISU was going great. We did a lot of many fun things in Ames including Emilio getting to go to Build-A-Bear for the first time!

We took another vacation together! Life is always so much FUN together!

Carving pumpkins! We quickly found fun traditions to do together wherever we could. Things to look forward to and the obvious vote on who did it better. I mean... who doesn't love a little competition right? Don't worry, you guessed right! Trin won 🥇 but I mean who is counting... hehehe

As life went on we were feeling like we needed a little spunk in our life. So... we got Paisley! She became a HUGE part of our life. Little did we know we now had a little family! 👨‍👩‍👧

Well as you can see, Trinity got replaced... (just kidding!) Sweet Paisley was the perfect little girl we never knew we needed.

Our "baby" continued to grow and we continued to raise an amazing "child" together. It was amazing to go through college while raising our pup in our home away from home, Ames. It's crazy to think, we have been growing our little family every day :)

🎶 Our junior year picked up and started to become full of events. We started going on many different adventures, many including concerts. 🎶

This evening Emilio and his fraternity gave Trinity a lavalier necklace. This is equivalent to what we know of as 'pinned' back in the days. What a special night full of forever memories. It is AMAZING to know we have established such a great home away from home. We never knew we were going to find many of our life long friends out of this short chapter in life!

As college was coming to an end, Trinity left for her last 8ish weeks of college to go Student Teaching in Norway. Little did Trin know... this is when Emilio started to plan for the big surprise of proposing when she got home. Proud of you mom, didn't let the cat out of the bag! ;)

THE BEST DAY EVER! Emilio pulled off the biggest surprise with all of our family and proposed. 💍

We were extremely excited to be engaged! We took the next couple days to take it all in. Little semi trip to celebrate. 🚚 Here comes lots of planning!

📸 Engagement photos 📸

Shirk family pictures. We got some more cute pictures taken with Trinity's BEAUTIFUL ring!

⭐️ We have been taking weekly adventures soaking up our time together being engaged! ⭐️

Emilio and Trin with their food adventures! Trin has ALWAYS had a big sweet tooth and it is finally rubbing off on Emilio 😂

🙊 Never a dull moment! Get married to the one you are ALWAYS laughing with! We are always belly laughing together! 🙊

We added another sweet girl to our family! 🐶 Everyone say Hi Piper!! Paisley of course needed a friend and her parents didn't think the puppy stage would be too bad again... LOL 🐾

🏔️ We took a trip to Colorado Springs 🏔️! We have had so much fun getting to make memories with our little family so far and can not wait to see where we are next summer! This has been so much fun thinking about the future and thinking about the fun memories we want to keep making together and with our family as it continues to grow over the years!

🎉 We have been working hard wedding planning as the day is inching closer! Paisley and Piper have been GREAT help! We can't wait to celebrate with everyone SO SOON! 🎉