Before Zach and I ever met, we had always known about each other. Our moms, Christy and Laura, were best friends in high school and talked about each other quite often around the house. Also, Zach's dad, Tim, was my basketball coach during my time at Upwards. Though Zach and I never truly met until 2022. We followed each other on social media but never really talked until we had a mutual friend who invited Zach to Starbucks with us. From there, the rest is history.

I remember one day during my sophomore year of high school, my mom picked me up from school and was telling me about how she ran into an old high school friend at Kroger. That friend in Kroger was Christy and my mom told me she had four very nice boys that I should meet. I did not take her advice back then, but here we are many years later, and I am marrying "one of the Cook boys" as my mom said in the car.

One night in the kitchen, Tim and I were talking about how good of a basketball player I was on his team and how crazy it is that now I am marrying his son. I did not know this for a while, but even back then, he thought I was nice and would be good for one of his boys!

For the record, Zach and I started hanging out on our own and was not set up by our parents:)

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