A Little Background

Let me bring you up to speed on where we are in our lives.  Mike was born and raised in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia, until his senior year in high school when his dad's work transfer took them to Huntsville, Alabama.  After completing high school in Huntsville, he went to Florence to the University of North Alabama.  There he pledged and joined Alpha Tau Omega fraternity and walked on and became a four year letterman on the cross country team.  After four and a half years in college, he graduated and moved to take a job back in Huntsville.  This began where he began his courtship with Dayna.
Dayna had also been raised in Georgia, though through her early childhood her fathers military career had them living for an extended time in Europe.  In fact, Dayna was born in Italy and her younger brother in Germany.  Dayna went through grade school in Watkinsville, Georgia, where he father choose to return after his military career, seeing as he had gone to school at the University of Georgia, just up the road.  After graduating from Oconee HS in 2001, Dayna left the university town for a small school in Rome, Georgia, Berry College.  After four years she graduated with a degree in math, having loved Berry to much to follow through with her plan to transfer to Georgia Tech after two years.  Just before her graduation in May of 2005 is when her relationship with Mike began to develop into more than friends.
She and Mike met on Summer Beach Project in 2002, a summer mission trip organized by a campus ministry on both their campuses called Campus Outreach.  They had a mutual interest but the distance fostered nothing more than a friendship.  It was a special friendship however, and they remained in touch through their years in college.  When they did start dating romantically in early 2005, their feelings quickly grew into a love for one another.  In fact, after Dayna graduated and spent some time touring America and Brazil with UWAM she moved to Florence and took a job to be closer to Mike.  Mike proposed on a rainy Martin Luther King Jr - Monday holiday evening, having the day off from his current job at a bank in Huntsville.  Mike soon found a job in Florence and for the first time they were living in the same city.   After a short engagement of four and a half months, they were wed on Memorial Day weekend in May 2006 at the college chapel at Berry College, thus beginning their lives together as husband and wife.  From there the adventure begins...