We first met in August of 2009 at The Parish pub in Santa Cruz. We were both there with friends (among a crowd of about 10 people total) to see a band play. We instantly connected over our love of music and baseball. On our first date, we ate apple pie at the local diner, blasted one of our favorite bands on the car stereo, and snapped some photos in a photo booth at the Boardwalk. Since then we’ve barely spent a day apart and feel so lucky to have found each other. We now live together in Scotts Valley with our bearded dragon Mitch Connor.