I met Natalie’s brother on the school bus in the 4th grade, we became friends and I met Natalie as a result. Naturally as life went on we didn’t see each other for many years and then in 2022, we were both in attendance at a house party at Natalie’s brother’s college house. We caught up and then exchanged info and a relationship started to build. We began to date in January of 2023, got engaged in September of 2023, welcomed our daughter in October 2024 and were married in April of 2025!

Natalie’s thesis project/show for her graduation from the university of Cincinnati. She was in the fine arts program at UC’s Design, Architecture, Art and Planning and she had been working on this thesis for over a year. We spent days building her installation piece and 7 hours the night before her show opened installing it. It’s when we were both certain that we wanted to be teammates for life. She ended up winning the DAAP directors choice award!

I think we would buy our first home, we’re still currently in our apartment that we rented when Natalie was 7 months pregnant. We want to continue building our family and we’d love to have the space to fit our future dreams! We’d also love to give our daughter and our dog Colt a backyard to play in! I’d also love to be able to rent a space for Natalie to run her nail business(@Nail.Fairy.Studio on IG) she’s so uniquely talented and I’d love for her to be able to fully pursue that passion!