Hello and welcome to everyone who is suddenly invested in football thanks to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce: This is a safe space where your inability to understand even the most basic sports things are welcome…which should be apparent by our use of “sports things.”

You may have noticed Taylor has been spending a lot of time with Brittany Mahomes (formerly known as Brittany Matthews), the wife of Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes. And it turns out they are the cutest couple ever? Again, if you already know this then move along, but if not, please join us on this timeline journey—starting with when Brittany and Patrick were high school sweethearts. TRULY this is something out of a Nicholas Sparks movie.

~2012

Patrick and Brittany meet in high school, are friends at first, and then start dating. What follows is a series of photos so cute, it’s shocking no one has made a slideshow of them set to “I Knew I Loved You” by Savage Garden.

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Instagram

If you want details on how exactly they got together, here is Brittany describing it (watch the video below):

“He brought this little Valentine’s gift for me at lunch one day. It was like a heart-like card and said, ‘Happy Valentine’s Day’, and like a rose or something. And he just brought it to me as a funny joke, but I thought it was the cutest thing in the world. Everyone in the cafeteria started chanting like, ‘Kiss her, kiss her’ to him and I was like, ‘I’m doing this’ and then from then on, I think that’s where I just kind of started getting a crush on him. Then boom, we just fell in love.”

‘Kay sorry not done with photos from the early days via Brittany’s Insta account:

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Instagram

April 24, 2013

Patrick invites Brittany to prom in the classic fashion:

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May 5, 2013

Brittany and Patrick hit up prom, and we can only thank the good lord that Instagram was around for the start of their relationship because OH MY GOSH THESE PHOTOS:

December 14, 2013

And then, friends, senior formal happens:

February 16, 2015

In case you were wondering if Brittany and Patrick stayed together when they were at college (they went to separate schools), the answer is obviously hell yes:

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September 26, 2016

Just gonna leave this here:

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February 14, 2017

If you’re not spending Valentine’s Day in matching outfits, what are you even doing?

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August 12, 2019

As Patrick’s career picks up, he and Brittany—who has a successful fitness career of her own—move into their first home together. Cute lil’ house tour, incoming:

February 2, 2020

Patrick leads the Kansas City Chiefs to a Super Bowl win and Brittany is, obviously, here for it.

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February 12, 2023

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Patrick once again leads the Chiefs to win the Super Bowl! And he thanks Brittany in his MVP speech, saying, “To my wife Brittany, my baby girl Sterling and my son Bronze, this crazy life that we are living means nothing without y’all, keeping me balanced, and making me appreciate every single day. No matter how I feel coming home, y’all bring me joy and make me appreciate the time that I get to spend with y’all. Thank you for always being there for me, through my good times and my bad. Love y’all.”

May 1, 2023

The couple hit up THE event of the season, aka the Met Gala:

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May 6, 2023

Just kidding the Kentucky Derby is obviously THE event of the season based on these ‘fits.

July 12, 2023

Patrick and Brittany play the couples quiz with GQ:

And hit up the ESPYS!

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August 8, 2023

Then they celebrate the off season….

October 12, 2023

Brittany joins Taylor Swift to get their WAG on, and this incredible photos is taken:

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And that brings us up to date! As you were. Yay sports!