Kevin and I have always said our story didn’t start when we started dating—it started with timing, fate, and a striped “Beetlejuice” shirt. Kevin was born in Florida. I was born in Alaska. Somehow, those two worlds collided in Juneau on October 29, 2011, at the Juneau Airport. I picked him up with friends, and when he got into the car and sat behind me, I turned around to say hello. We started talking, and there it was—that unmistakable click. The kind you don’t question, you just feel. We became best friends fast. I was a single mom with a toddler at the time, and Kevin seamlessly became part of our world—family dinners, rides when I didn’t have a car, late nights just hanging out. My son adored him and dubbed him “Uncle Kitty,” a title Kevin wore proudly. We loved each other deeply, but neither of us wanted to risk the friendship, so we didn’t. Life moved forward, just not together. We both married other people. I went on to have two more sons. Kevin moved to Idaho. Still, I always called him my “wrong time, wrong place.” I knew—deep down—that he was my forever, even if it didn’t seem possible for our lives to ever line up. Then one day, they did. After both of us separated from our spouses, we reconnected and instantly picked right back up where we left off. One night, Kevin finally said what we’d both been carrying for years—he told me he had always loved me and always wondered what could have been. I told him I felt the same. This time, we weren’t letting timing win. Within two months, Kevin packed up his life and moved back to Alaska to be with us. He stepped right into our family, into our home, into fatherhood, and into partnership like he’d always belonged there—because he had. A few months later, we made the leap together, uprooting everything and moving our whole crew to Idaho to start our life for real. And then—because Kevin never does things halfway—he proposed to me at Disney World. A place I never imagined I’d get to see, let alone with my kids, after years as a single mom. Kevin surprised us with tickets for Christmas, and in the Magic Kingdom, surrounded by joy and dreams come true, he asked me to be his forever. Kevin is my best friend, the love of my life, and the man who showed me that the right person is worth every wrong turn it takes to get there. We’re so excited to celebrate this next chapter with the people we love most.