Our first date in Logan Square Park. We clicked fast. Our second date was lunch the next day, and our third date was dinner that night.

Nick plays hooky to celebrate Katie's birthday at Navy Pier. Chicago dogs were for lunch.

Nick meets the Semple family for the first time. We spend 4th of July weekend at the Langley, OK lake house.

Katie meets the Jansons for the first time at Nick's Notre Dame vs Wisconsin tailgate. ND won. Go Irish.

Kellogg Manager's Ball, Christmas 2021.

Katie decides life was getting boring and brings home Reno.

The Semples welcome Nick to their Happy Place for the first time, Saratoga, WY.

Katie's first Stone Harbor, NJ vacation.

Our first Holiday together, Thanksgiving in St. Louis.

We decide it's about time Reno has one home and move in together.

Katie begins culinary school at Kendall College.

Decorating for Halloween at our Logan Square apartment. Chicago feels like home.

Our first Christmas together.

Nick proposes at The Logan Theater, one block up Milwaukee Ave from where we first met. Katie says "YES!"

Nick graduates from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management.

Our first international trip together. We traveled to Cape Town, South Africa to celebrate the Venter-Burns wedding.