I can't even remember when we met, specifically, but I think I was about 9 and Christian must have been about 12. On and off throughout the years, whenever he'd come to town to visit his cousins, we'd both have this massive crush on each other.
The summer after my junior year of high school, one of my best friends, Julia Abshier invited me along on a trip to her grandparent's house in Tahoe. Her cousin, Christian, happened to be there and we hung out a lot over those few days. Between playing board games and tennis together we both became pretty smitten with each other. After Tahoe, we started making excuses to chat on Facebook messenger, usually involving how a new Taylor Swift album was in the process of being released as we both love her music. Well eventually we learned how to hold a conversation without using excuses, Christian moved to Cottonwood, we started dating, and fell in love.
On New Year's Eve, we went on a hike to Castle Crags (where we had a memorable date right before I left for college). When we got to the vista point we started taking pictures of the view. Christian took out his polaroid and took a picture of the view, before saying he wanted to get a picture of me. Right before he took the picture, he swiftly pulled a ring out of his pocket and got down on a knee. I said YES and there's a super special polaroid of the moment he asked me. Now we get to spend forever together and couldn't be more excited!!