We met in elementary school, but we didn't really become friends until our senior year of high school. We spent the mornings before homeroom hanging out in the hallways and the afternoons across from each other at the lunch table. Eventually we started to hangout on the weekends with our friend group and then we hung out by ourselves. We started dating soon after that.

After I took my first board exam for medical school, we went on a trip to Utah to celebrate. What I didn't know is that Ethan had been planning to propose for months and had gotten the ring over a month before the trip-and he is terrible at keeping secrets from me. On the third day of our trip, we went on a scenic hike to a suspension bridge overlooking the Salt Lake Valley. It was here on the bridge that Ethan pulled the old "look out there" to get me to look away, and when I turned back around, he was down on one knee! I was so surprised and excited, and the day turned out to be just perfect!