We first met after getting lost together on the first day of camp week. Thankfully, Maddy was there to save Kyle. It would take months for Kyle to get bold enough to ask Maddy out. We were on our way to our first annual Bentleyville Tour of Lights. On the way up, Maddy confronted Kyle about why he hadn't asked her out yet. He had wanted to do it at Bentleyville surrounded by the lights. My bad.

Maddy kept thinking, "he's going to do it at Bentleyville, since I ruined it for him all those years ago". For the first and only time, she was wrong. On a frosty November morning, Kyle asked Maddy to marry him on a walk in our favorite park with our puppy Koda. She was given no notice and complained about not having her nails done before FaceTiming everyone she knew. Then she remembered she actually had to say yes. And if you ask him, Kyle totally did a backflip off the bench before landing on one knee.