Aidan transferred to the University of Colorado Boulder (sko buffs) for the spring semester of his sophomore year - January of 2021. There he first met Maddie at SEEK in February. Throughout the next month they got to know each other more at their Catholic Student Center coffee shop in Boulder, where Aidan flirted with Maddie so she'd make him free coffee. That spring Aidan and Maddie were on the same staff for the Buffalo Awakening Retreat, there they became more interested in each other as they saw how devoted the other was to Christ. Shortly after, Aidan asked Maddie on their first date. They became official on April 24th, 2021 and a simple lunch date turned into a summer full of Rockies games, drives to Longmont, cooking homemade pizza, walks in the park falling for each other. Their relationship grew for the next year and a half before Maddie moved to DC. Through frequent facetime calls, lots of prayers, and a few flights IAD to DEN, their relationship continued to grow and deepen, falling more and more in love even from 1500 miles away. During this long distance, Aidan discerned his call to propose to Maddie, and on December 26th, 2022, Aidan got down on one knee, and asked Maddie to marry him. They then got lunch where Maddie had the best pizza and affogato of her life, and Aidan took his first breath in weeks. Aidan graduated from Leeds School of Business this spring and will be moving to Virginia to start working this fall. Until then, Aidan and Maddie will continue to navigate engagement with lots of facetime coffee dates, time dedicated to prayer, and union through the Holy Eucharist. As they eagerly count down to December 16th, please continue to pray for them as they prepare to receive the sacrament of marriage and become one.