We're Getting Married!!

We got hired together as EMTs at an ambulance company in Monterey County we didn't think much of it. A year later, we were driving and met at an intersection. After that, we started talking, and the rest is history!

Over the passed two years, Andrew was hired as a firefighter paramedic with Monterey County Regional Fire District, and I had just finished my third semester of nursing school. Andrew planned a lunch date at Post Ranch Inn in Big Sur to celebrate. After an amazing lunch he insisted we go to “shell beach”, our secret secluded little beach on the Big Sur coast. It was freezing and windy, but I agreed to go for a short walk. On the way down to the beach we saw a state parks lifeguard truck parked on the side of the highway. I hoped no one was in trouble, and thought we probably shouldn’t be walking towards the water, but we continued walking down the trail. As we walked around the hillside there was a white rose on the side of the trail. I was surprised to see it and jumped over it to avoid stepping on it. Andrew denied seeing it. As we walked through the ice plant and approached the beach, there were more roses. Dozens of white long stem roses lined the trail. We followed the trail down the hill to the edge of the hillside where there was a circle of roses. Andrew took my hand and walked me into the circle and proposed against the crashing waves and beautiful Big Sur sunset.