Dare I say it.... FACEBOOK. Christopher popped up as one of my "friends you may know" and I am guessing I did the same on his end, he messaged me, I asked my friend Rachel Olson about him because she is also from Louisville, KY and she had nothing but great things to say! After 2 dates, 7 months of on-and-off texting, FaceTime-ing from long distance, I moved to Louisville, KY for school (currently studying to get my Masters in Occupational Therapy) we made it official, and a little over 2 years later we are sealing the deal!

On Thursday, February 7, 2019, around 8:30pm, Christopher and I were driving to Nordstrom Rack to get myself a winter coat (a little late, I know). We were talking about my schedule for Friday and he said with a smirk, "You aren't working this weekend.. not at Pure Barre or lululemon." I looked at him as if he were the craziest person ever and said, "Yes, I am?" -- that's when he surprised me and told me we were going to New York City for the weekend. He had talked to my managers and taken care of all my shifts. We hopped on a plane the next morning at 6am and landed in NYC at 8:30am Friday, February 8th. We spent all day Friday and Saturday exploring the city, something we had been dreaming of doing together since we started dating. Saturday evening, we got ready, went to watch the 2nd half of the Louisville basketball game at a bar before heading to dinner. Christopher told me that since we had time before we had to be at our reservation that he wanted to go to Central Park, even though is was dark, he still wanted to go just to say he went while he was in NYC. Mind you... it's 30 degrees, windy, I have a dress on with stilettos (I don't do heels), so I made it very clear that we were NOT walking around the park, only going in. When we walked into Cental Park, I sat down on the nearest bench and he kept walking to look around, or so I thought, in actuality he was handing his phone to a guy who was walking his dogs and told him he was about to propose. Christopher came back over to where I was sitting and said the sweetest things that I don't really remember because I started crying after the first word came out of his mouth and I said YES!!