Gallery

Celebrating our 6 month anniversary in March 2014

Camping out on the campus quad freshman year (2013). We were still just friends lol

Our first 2 a.m. waffle house date (2013)

Very casual Friday night hang freshman year (2013)

Trying scorpion in at a night market in Beijing hehe

Exploring all the wonder and sites in Beijing in 2016

a VERY fun 22nd birthday (2017)

One of our many late night Waffle House dates during college

Ben's first trip to Cleveland to meet Madison's family (2013)

I don't know how either of us got any school work done because we were also messing around with something (2014)

Snow days were always our favorite days during undergrad (2015)

I've always taken dentistry very seriously (2015)

Just hanging out (2016)

Chick-fil-a's $10 Valentine's Day special (2017)

Finding our first apartment in Philly and signing the lease (2018)

Moving into our first apartment, 4742 Pine St, Philadelphia (2018)

First night in our first apartment in Philly! We got food from the bodega across the street Garden Court Eatery (our fav)

Ben's first day at his first big boy job!

Welcoming home Yaya, September 30 2018

Lots of junk food dinners eaten on the kitchen floor between 2018-2022

Madison started seeing dental patients in July 2020

Bringing home Zadie December 2019

One of the hardest days of our lives, moving in to apartment #2 507 Baltimore Ave (2021)

Our little family surviving the early days of quarantine 2020

Eating indoors was still banned winter 2020 but nothing could stop us getting our weekly mexican food from Don Barriga

We loved Philly and the friends we made there (2021)

Lassi's became our new comfort food from the spot on the corner (2021)

Best parties were always at Derek's house! (Christmas 2021)

Some things never change... we will always love playing in the snow (Philly 2022)

We made a tradition of getting cheesesteaks for Valentine's Day while we lived in Philly

Seeing my book on a bookshelf for the first time! (2022)

Dental school graduation 2022

Saying goodbye to our beloved Philly and heading back to beautiful Asheville, NC

Back home in the Appalachian mountains 2022

I had no idea he was about to propose an 20 mins after this!

Captured the moment I first called Ben my fiance

Ben popped the question on top of Peace Hill in the USVI (December 15, 2022)

On top of Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa

At the southern most tip of Africa in June 2023

Always an adventure! (South Africa 2023)

Enjoying the wine tram in Cape Town, South Africa

I went a little crazy trying everything different at McDonalds in Cape Town

on a safari!

Getting our wedding bands!

At the summit of Lion's Head mountain in Cape Town, South Africa