2011

We met on our first day of freshman year at the University of Colorado Boulder (SKO BUFFS). Kylie’s roommate happened to be one of Landon’s friends from back home, so we embarked on our college experience together from the get-go. We both lived in Will Vill, had class together, partied together, and ate way too much Cosmos together. We spent a lot of time getting close as freshmen and ended the year great friends.

2012

We spent the summer of 2012 in our respective home towns - Landon in Aurora, Kylie in Palm Desert. We kept up with each other on social media and moved back to Boulder in August to return for our sophomore year at CU.

Landon had moved in with a few of his friends a couple weeks before school started, and was the first person to get a hold of Kylie when she got back to Boulder. He called as soon as he saw she made it back to BoCo and came over immediately to give her a hand getting moved in and settled.

Things were different though, and Kylie had a feeling he was trying to impress her (spoiler alert: he was 😉). We spent that day and many more throughout the next month or so much like the year before - concerts, house parties, studying, playing guitar hero for houuuurs, eating pizza and calzones, etc. However, there was no doubt that our friendship began developing into something more.

Fall went on and we began to share our several firsts, finally making our relationship official on November 16th, 2012❤️

2013-2014

We spent our first year together celebrating many new things and working towards our degrees. Landon brought home an orange kitty from his family’s farm in Nebraska, and he quickly became our first son - King Louis. On top of our continuing Boulder traditions, we traveled to Clear Lake, Iowa to spend some family time on the lake, Las Vegas in the summer to share our first EDC experience together, and moved into new apartments within the same building in Boulder.

We celebrated our first year anniversary in November and entered our second year together much the same as the previous. We shared our first Coachella together in April of 2014, adopted our first puppy, Nala, at the beginning of the summer, and spent another 4th of July on the lake in Iowa.

Despite our undeniable connection and love for each other, we went our separate ways in August before the beginning of our junior year at CU. Some time apart was good! We each went through some significant highs and lows and came back to each other later in the fall. We celebrated what we recognized as our second anniversary, and progressed into 2015 hand in hand.

2015-2016

We spent the next year and a half in Boulder as we both finished our degrees. Life was great here - we were living in one of our favorite places in the world within walking distance of our friends and everything we loved. Although we each had our respective apartments, we basically lived together throughout this time in Kylie’s apartment at Buffalo Canyon. We took our first international trip together to Mexico with some friends and adopted another puppy, Kona, before deciding to take our next steps and begin our careers.

2016-2019

THE EASTMAN HOUSE ERA

We kicked off our transition into our next phase of life by moving in together (for the first official time) into one of Landon’s family’s homes just on the south side of Denver. This house quickly became home-base for our entire friend group as everyone began transitioning to the Denver Metro. Kylie’s sister Lindsey even moved to Colorado from Iowa and lived with us for almost a year before getting her own apartment!

The memories made throughout this time are some of the most special in our whole lives. We both jumped into the traditional workforce during this time - Landon at Medtronic, and Kylie at the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless. We celebrated a lot, developed new shared passions, and grew together in ways we never had before. Holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, graduations, baby showers - the list goes on and on. We hosted and entertained A LOT, and loved every minute of it. One of our favorites was the annual Halloween party where we would decorate every inch of the house. Our yearly Friendsgiving (famsgiving) was another one of our favorite days of the whole year. That house was filled with love and fun energy at all times, and our friends really did turn into family. We will never forget the hours wasted on that big brown couch, the amount of shots taken at that bar and ices hidden in every nook and cranny, the days spent BBQing on that patio, the games of basketball and cornhole in the driveway (and the occasional snowball fight or home-made ski jump on powder days), the huge nerf gun wars throughout the whole house, the delicious family dinners, the lazy and hungover Sundays watching football and playing Fortnite, or the seemingly never-ending days and nights spent with the best of friends. Everyone was always welcome and there was a time we thought these days would never end. Along with so much more, these are things we will cherish forever.

We also traveled a lot! California, Mexico, Chicago, Costa Rica, Belize, DC, Beijing, and much more. These were, at this point, the best trips we could ever imagine. Each one so different and so special it its own unique way. Some with friends, some with family, and some with just the two of us.

In October of 2019 we received confirmation that our lives were about to change drastically. Landon received a promotion and relocation that would take us out to California. We celebrated our 7th anniversary apart so that he could take his first load of belongings out to our new home. He left mid-November while Kylie packed the house and their lives up to follow him out west in January 2020. Saying goodbye to our people and the life we built in Colorado was by far the most emotional thing we had been through together thus far. It was harder than we imagined. And spending a couple months apart, in different states, did not make it any easier. Long distance was not for us.

2020-2021

By January 2020 we were both officially relocated and planted in the Bay Area. We barely got to explore our new home when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Like everyone else in the entire world, our whole lives were put on pause. Luckily, Landon’s job was not affected and he was able to keep us afloat in many ways. Kylie ultimately did some soul searching in this forced time off and realized she wanted to pursue her passion for filmmaking. She enrolled at the San Francisco Film School and took the next year filming, studying, and developing her skills. She found a passion for producing, especially in non-fiction/documentary filmmaking.

We took as many outdoor camping trips during our first summer in the bay as we could to fulfill our need for travel as locally and safely as possible. We visited Napa, Yosemite, Big Sur, Sequoia, Zion, Bryce Canyon, Escalante, Moab and many other remote desert places of the Southwest US. We are so fortunate to have been able to not only take these trips safely with each other, but also with our four-legged babies and in many cases some of our best friends. Our Colorado friends came to visit us on a fam trip to Santa Cruz for the 4th of July which was some much needed time together. We definitely tried to make the most of our situation of being alone in the bay during a global pandemic.

But the year was really tough on us as well. We lost a lot of people in our lives, many in very tragic ways. We were unable to travel to spend any holidays with our families, so we spent them in our apartment just the two of us. Naturally, we really weren’t able to make many connections or friends out here due to the circumstances. But all of these limitations allowed us to grow together as a couple more than ever before. It was just us. And as many others can likely relate, we basically had a crash course in our relationship where we were forced to face each other and our connection in a very new, direct, and real way. For us, it worked. It was one of the best things that could have happened for our relationship. We grew together in ways we likely never could have otherwise. For two people who are particularly social and independent in their own lives, we grew to lean on and support each other in very new ways. Our bond strengthened more than we really even knew was possible, and we learned so much about ourselves in the process.

Over the next year the world starting to open up again as the pandemic began to become more controlled. We both got fully vaccinated, began to travel again, got to have our friends and family out for trips to bay, and began returning to this new “normal”. We got to dive deeper into our local community and explore more of what the area has to offer - and we absolutely love it. The San Francisco Bay Area has a new, huge piece of our hearts.

In September of 2021 we took the trip of a lifetime to Italy, where we both celebrated Landon’s 28th birthday AND GOT ENGAGED!!! (see the full story of our engagement here). Being able to celebrate our engagement in the most romantic place we could image could not have been more perfect. Though sharing the news was so fun and exciting, it was also really nice to have a few days to take it all in together, just us. Even though it wasn’t a secret, it in some ways felt fun to have this big news to share that no one knew about yet.

We spent the rest of the year taking in everything as fiancés. We spent Kylie’s birthday in Mammoth (where we originally decided we wanted to get married), and the holidays home in Colorado with our families.

2022

We started the year busier than ever before. Both of us were growing quickly in our careers and it opened a lot of fun doors. Landon took on a few new roles at Medtronic, traveled to conferences near and far, and really expanded his capabilities here in the Bay Area. Kylie started two businesses, produced and shot a short film, and found herself transitioning into a more long-term role at a production company in SF.

The front half of the year also had many hurdles and tough times, the hardiest of which was having to say goodbye to two of our three fur babies – Louis and Nala. All we will say there was it was hands down the most heart-wrenching thing we’ve ever been through. During this time we also moved into our new apartment, closer to the city, with Konie… and just like that our family of five suddenly and unexpectedly became a family of three.

We continued through the rest of the year at what felt like lightning speed – hit a few festivals with friends, made a few domestic trips, and did a LOT of wedding planning. Some of which required an entire shift in the plans for our big day. We really got into the thick of wedding planning as the end of the year approached.

We celebrated our ten year (and last official) anniversary in Mexico at the most unbelievable resort. We backed that up with Thanksgiving in Cabo with Kylie’s family, and stayed home in San Mateo for Christmas and New Years.

2023

Aside from a few health complications, 2023 has been a blast so far. And has gone so fast! We both have taken on new roles in our professional lives, and continue to fall more and more in love with the bay area.

We hosted a combined bachelor/bachelorette party in Mexico with 25 of our best friends and family in the whole world. This trip was truly a once in a lifetime experience. Having everyone we love and adore so much in one place for the better part of a week was unlike anything else we could imagine. This trip will have a special place is all of our hearts forever.

That leads us to today! Here we are, absolutely in love with where we are living and more in love with each other than ever before.

Who knows what is in store next (outside of our wedding!!!!), but we’re sure it will be amazing!