A text the day before we met in person. We had chatted briefly on Tinder, and then he asked if he could take me out for coffee.
The morning of his drive to Indy to meet me on my birthday. God…could he even be cuter?
After our first date, he headed to Michigan for business. We sent all the damn pics to each other.
Lunch while telling Daniel ALLLL about Chris.
Getting to know each other on the nightly FaceTime sessions.
Snapped this while FaceTiming. Immediately after, I sheepishly said, “You…are…really cute.” To which he replied, “Don’t even start with me. I can’t even with you in those glasses.”
The night he came back from his business trip…after our initial coffee date and a crazy amount of FaceTime while he was away. This is our very first pic together. I love it so. My life was about to change and I had no idea.
Buying cutie new clothes at J Crew.
Owning those new J Crew clothes.
Airbnb was a place for us to fall in love.
This was one of my faves.
Video image of Trina with rainbow backdrop… how did that happen?
What we do basically all the time.
Just doing our thing at the mall. We are dumb…but we think we’re funny.
A Christmas outing to see the lights in Indy.
Chris’ non stop picture taking. I watched him like a hawk that night. I was investigating how this man moved through the world.
Getting to know someone is a beautiful thing. He was self-assured, easy going, and impossibly kind.
He asked a lady to snap this picture after spending about 5 minutes taking hers…just to get it right.
Because of the distance, FaceTiming was a nightly thing for us. We made all the time in the world for each other. Some of these sessions lasted 2-3 hours.
We arrived in St. John…ya know, to make sure we were taking this extra fast. Would not recommend. But it was AMAZING.🙃🕺😬
St. John haircut. I have no idea what I’m doing, but I absolutely think I do. And Chris’ worry-meter was zero’d out. He was happy as a clam.
Our queer as hell bathing suits. We put this one in B&W cuz we thought it made us look GOOD. 😎
Things were moving along quickly. It was time to meet his sweet momma in Florida.
The engagement. This is the view from where it happened.
Pics of the family surrounding us in the car.
We got engaged outside of a church…this church. The heart wasn’t actually on top of the steeple. I put that there myself.😉
Right after he said, “Yes.” ❤️❤️❤️ I couldn’t stop thinking about our new life together.
Cincinnati, here I come! Moving day for me. On my way to my new home.
Chris Shenanigans while packing the van.
I was so happy…nervous too…but mostly, happy.
This is the man I chose. I chose well and have transferred the love within me to him. Life can be hard…but also, so so good. I don’t know how this happened. I just know that it did. Hello, love.
