Like most couples in this day and age we have some sort of social media to thank for our relationship. Brandon was just getting out of boot camp and going on a “Facebook purge” as he would say, but for some reason he decided to message me (Danielle) instead of just deleting me. Soon, Facebook messages turned to text, text turned into Skype calls, we talked day after day after day until one day we didn't and eventually we both entered relationships ( with other people). Fast forward a year later, and those Facebook messages started back up, then the text.. And then one amazing day we finally planned to meet. Shortly after our “first official meeting” we began dating. Still, with a distance between us, but we made it work. Brandon would soon graduate from Nuclear Power School in Charleston and would be moving to Washington, with being only 6 months into our relationship and always being a “distance couple” we figured 3,000 miles couldn’t be that much worse. Shortly after arriving in Washington Brandon would endure a 5-month underway. After he got back we made the decision that we felt confidant enough in our relationship for me to move to Washington and join him. We fell more in love living in a new place together and experiencing new places. Brandon felt the day was right on May 17th, 2015 and after planning an amazing day which involved attending a baseball game (my favorite past time and did I mention my FAVORITE team, The Boston Red sox were in town?!) and a “true” Seattle Beach equipped with a fire and endless s’mores supplies, he finally got down on one knee with our closest friends around and proposed!! We immediately ate s’mores and celebrated!