From Ashley's perspective: Weirdly enough...we met at an international youth event. EYE to be exact. We were both serving on the "Events Team" for EYE, running errands and doing stuff behind the scenes. We ate meals together, spent time with the same group of friends. All normal stuff. It wasn't until I was on the drive home from EYE that I got a phone call from my good friend, Wallace Benton (shoutout Wallace). We were talking and he said, "you know our friend, Chris? You should reach out to him and talk to him." To which I almost immediately responded, "there's no way. He lives all the way in Colorado." And Wallace said, "you should at least think about it." So I did...and I messaged Chris the very next day, and we have been together ever since. From Chris' perspective: I met this cute girl who liked Fall Out Boy at youth camp. Between that and getting to know her sense of humor, pastoral heart, and fun loving approach to life, I was smitten by the end of camp. I remember being so happy when I got a text from Ashley the day after camp, since I’d been debating reaching out to her myself. It’s been bliss ever since.