We were first introduced on Sept 30, 2017 and only spoke briefly at the Grandview Cafe. On Thursday Oct 7, 2017, a friend needed a wing woman. Duty called so I went to Byrne’s Pub and there is Kyle who I had just met the previous weekend. We spent the whole night in the corner giggling together. We then proceeded to go out again Friday night, tailgate together Saturday, and hung out for the first time alone Sunday. It was off to the races from there

Kyle surprised me on a hike with our pup, at High Banks Metro Park, by dropping to a knee in the mud in the middle of the trail. Kyle got nervous at the last second and paused after he knelt so I just kept walking ahead with Ollie. I hear “Hey Alex,” which was so strange because Kyle never calls me by my full name so I whirled around and there he was 10-feet back on a knee with a ring box in his hand. I just kept saying, ‘is this real?’ over & over because we were looking for a home and I thought a proposal was far in the future. Nope, he said he had no idea how long it would take us to find a house and he wanted us to have something to be excited about right then, that he couldn’t wait any longer to put a ring on my finger.