HOW WE MET

We met during the Fall semester of the 2003 school year at the University Lutheran Center on the UT campus. While the interaction between us didn't consist of more than the casual conversation for the first few months of the semester, all of that changed in one fateful camping trip.

The trip started off normal, just an overnight at a state park, until about 5am when the rain started coming down. The six-man tent (that ten people were sleeping in) started leaking badly and eventually we had to tear down the campsite and return home much earlier than expected, soaked.

That Wednesday Adam asked Erin where she had been that weekend and what her excuse was for missing out on the trip. It turns out she was in Tomball testing for her black belt, and that ignited a conversation that hasn't stopped since. Erin gave Adam her AOL screen name; they started talking outside of church and by mid-December we were together.

We don't have an anniversary of our first date or any anniversary really other than October 1, 2005 (the day Adam proposed) but we normally celebrate our dating anniversary sometime in mid-December. The wedding will be our first real set date that we¹ll have to celebrate.