Our story is 10 years in the making so it’s a bit long but cute. Alex loves to say about how we met, “We had Chemistry!” We met our junior year of high school in our chemistry class, and quickly became friends by our senior year. Alex "asked" Brittany to homecoming with cookies that spelled "Homecoming?" with "y" and "n" cookies as well. Too stunned to know what was going on Brittany stared at the cookies until Alex said, "Well are you going to pick one?" After a fun weekend of Homecoming and Greek Fest, one of our bridesmaids for asking “hey are you guys dating yet or what?” Brittany said, “I don’t know, are we?” Alex asked, “do you want to be?” Brittany responded with “well yeah but that’s not the question.” Alex then asked Brittany to be his girlfriend to which she replied “sure, yeah we’re dating now.” Brittany moved to Flagstaff for college and Alex visited on average twice a month. In 2019, Brittany moved back down to Phoenix with the hopes we would move in together after her first year of teaching and then COVID happened, and everything was put on pause. We moved into our first apartment in April of 2022 and while it was a big adjustment, we loved every minute. We took our first major trip together in Europe and while it was a crazy trip, we would go back in a heartbeat (without kids)! On June 21st, 2023, with only two more nights in Italy, Alex asked one of the kids on the trip to say, “are you guys engaged yet?” Which of course made Brittany mad because she thought it wasn’t happening, so she begrudgingly said "no." Alex then replied, “do you want to be?” He got down on one knee and the rest is history!