Brian and I met in our World Geography Class my freshman year and his sophomore year of high school. We had just finished taking our final exam before winter break when he walked up to my friend and I, and asked me to play checkers. I thought, this is the guy that is always sleeping in class and he wants to play checkers? With me of all people? I looked at my friend and looked back at him, and reluctantly said, okay. We played a couple games and talked about the break ahead, and if you ask him to this day he will say he let me win. We talked over break and then right before we went back to school he asked me to be his girlfriend. I thought sure, maybe this might go somewhere...well almost 10 years later I think I was right!

Brian and I took a trip to Jamaica with my parents to celebrate my moms birthday and their wedding anniversary. The first night there we went to this beautiful roof top bar at sunset, when Brian turns to me and says we should take a picture. I said okay, thinking this man never wants to have his picture taken, but the view was pretty so I'm sure I was going to ask anyway. So we both stand close together with the sunset island view behind us. My mom and step dad get their cameras out, which I thought was odd, we didn't need that many pictures right? Then all of a sudden Brian turns to me and starts getting down on one knee, and if he said words I'm not sure what they were because I immediately started crying in disbelief. I of course then said "Yes" to marrying my best friend.