♥ 1/9/12- Allie & Santy meet at a camp in Ecuador
♥ 1/14/12- Allie & Santy admit to liking each other & spend hours talking in broken English & Spanish
♥ 1/17/12 - Allie goes back to America; they Skype often
♥ 6/1/12- Allie returns to Ecuador for 2 months, traveling by herself for the first time
♥ 6/2/12- Allie & Santy start officially dating!
♥ 9/18/12- Santy receives his first ever Ecuadorian & Spanish passport & is permitted to travel to the US
♥ 12/1/12- Santy takes his first ever plane ride to leave his country for the first time to go the States for 2 months
♥ 12/24/12- Santy's first time seeing snow; their first Christmas together
♥ 5/23/13 - Allie returns to Ecuador for 3 months
♥ 12/5/13- Santy returns to America for 3 months
♥ 2/14/13- Santy & Allie's first Valentine's day together (and first time they both celebrated with a significant other!)
♥ 2/25/14- Santy & Allie get engaged!
♥ 3/28/14- Allie receives her first visa ever! Praise God!
♥ 5/26/14- Allie says YES to the dress of her dreams
♥ 6/23/14- Allie goes back to Ecuador for 5 months
♥ 10/2/14- Santy & Allie send in their I-129F; received by TSC (NOA1 date: 10/7)
♥ 12/22/14- Allie returns to Ecuador for another 2 weeks for her first Ecuadorian Christmas & New Year!
♥ 2/9/15- Santy lands safely to American soil in JFK airport with no problems (see our post in the "yes, you can visit" forum) to visit for almost 3 months & be in Allie's sister's wedding as a groomsman!
♥ 7/14/15- Civil ceremony! (Allie's mom's birthday!)
♥ 9/18/15- American wedding celebration!
♥ 9/19/15- Honeymoon in Puerto Rico! Woohoo!!
♥ 10/17/15- Ecuadorian wedding