We’re getting married!

Chase and I met on St. George Island at the Chilli Cookoff in March right before covid! One of my maid of honors, Ashley and I were down for a girls weekend away at the beach when we came across chase and a couple of his friends at the bar. We hung out that day and Chase gave me his number so we could keep in touch. We didn't really stay in touch that much until we were both down on SGI again for Memorial day weekend in May and hung out again! After that, we talked pretty much every day and decided that we might actually like each other LOL. So we made plans 4th of July weekend for him to come stay with my family at the beach (I figured if he can survive a weekend being thrown into my family, then maybe this guy is worth keeping around LOL) Long story short... That weekend he DID survive meeting the whole family and he kept everyone entertained and laughing. It didn't take long at all for me to know that Chase was a keeper, and the rest is history!

A couple days after Christmas, Chase and I went on a trip up to Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain to look at the Christmas lights. When we got to Callaway Gardens and parked, we started walking towards the Christmas tents and then Chase said "he forgot his dip can in the car so he ran back to "get his dip"" and I said "Chase you already have 2 cans of dip in my purse.. why do you need more... " Chase said "I might need more, you never know" LOL!! (Hint Hint- he was getting the ring box and somehow he hid it well and I never saw the box in his back pocket the whole time) So we went and got a drink and then walked through the first set of Christmas lights and then we were going to get on the trolley that takes you through the whole place. After walking through it one time, Chase says "Those were so pretty, let's walk through them again so we can take a picture in them" So we did... we got our picture and walked back out. THEN Chase says "Let's walk through them ONE more time... (this is when I should have known he was acting weird because yall it was about 80 degrees, we both have long sleeves on and are sweating, and I know dang well he doesn't care about these lights THIS MUCH LOL!) I'm starting to get agitated because I am sweating and have seen the same lights 2 times already but said "okay this is the last because I'm getting really hot.." We walk through for the last time, we get a person to take our picture in the front of the lights again.. and then he got down on his knee and popped the question! At that moment, I completely blacked out because I was surprised and couldn't believe it, so I don't remember everything Chase said to me (But I'm sure it was very sweet though LOL).