We were in the same singles ward last summer! We were always just friends and never really considered dating. When school started in September, we both moved out of the ward and lost contact for a couple weeks. But in the beginning of October, on a whim McKayla decided to message Carson to see how he was doing. A couple days later we went on our first date, a week later we started dating, and just a couple months after that we got engaged! We do like to say it was destiny however, because last June we were doing a scavenger hunt for a FHE activity where we were required to do lots of random stuff, one of which was to take a picture of a proposal. So Carson fake proposed to McKayla for the scavenger hunt. Little did we know almost a year later to the day we would be getting married!
We got engaged on February 2! We went to the place up Provo Canyon where we had our first kiss. Carson had set up lights, and a blanket, and pictures of us. It was pretty snowy and it took about 45 minutes of slugging through it to get to the right spot. Carson was worried about the sun going down so he was trying to get there quickly, and the whole time McKayla was thinking this had better be the proposal or this was gonna be the worst "hike" ever. However, after getting to the top we were both so happy we forgot about the sun setting and how cold our feet were haha. (Shoutout to Carson though for hiking that mountain 3 times to set everything up without McKayla knowing).
Carson graduated from BYU in April with a Bachelor's in Genetics. McKayla is also at BYU, studying advertising, and graduates in 2 years. So we'll be living in Provo until McKayla graduates, while Carson works at a lab nearby. After that we'll move for Carson's post graduate study.