We met online through mutual friends, and our first time meeting in person was a date at IHOP on December 15, 2015. We ate and talked and laughed until four in the morning, and it was only then did we realize that our cars had frosted over. Russ graciously went out to scrape my windshield while I stayed inside in the warmth, and it was then I knew I'd found a keeper. Fast forward a year, and we moved in together in Lee's Summit. A year and a half after that, on June 10, 2018 while on vacation in southern California, Russ got down on one knee in Malibu and asked me to be his wife!