Although neither of us can remember the exact date, we met at a stop light driving down sunnyvale saratoga road right by the Kusalo's house. A car full of guys pulled up next to my car at a red light. I was driving one of my girlfriends around looking for something to do because we were 17 and that was what kids thought was fun, when the boys started yelling at us and asking if we wanted to go to a party. Luckily my friend recognized Pero from our elementary school since we all went to Resurrection. So of course, as any young and bored girl would do, we said yes and followed them to the party. Except there was no party. Just Nick Bilic's house. Pero and I connected instantly and to be honest I was smitten from that moment on, and I think he was too.

We had been planning a getaway trip to Monterey just to have some time to ourselves from a couple of days. We have been going to Monterey since we were much younger. We have gone to the aquarium multiple occasions over the last 13 years, developed a love for walking around to the various little wine tasting spots and sliding over to Carmel as well. This trip did not seem out of the ordinary for us. We were staying at our favorite hotel the Intercontinental, we walked around the downtown area a bit and watched the waves rolling in, and made our ritual wine tasting stop. Pero booked dinner at our favorite place Chart House, where I guess I should have known something was up when he didn't order a drink at dinner. On our walk back from dinner we stopped by this Christmas tree that they had set up in the town square near the monument. When we walked closer to the fountain, I noticed that a bunch of kids had poured bubbles in the fountain and I was so distracted by the bubbles and staring at them. He said, "Hey baby I have a question for you?" and I turned around to see him down on one knee with the ring in his hand. I was so shocked and caught off guard, that as soon as he asked me to marry him I took the ring out of his hand and put it on my own finger. I could not stop laughing and crying because I was so happy. I laughed even harder when I finally saw his cousin off to the side and realized that he had recorded the entire proposal! It was such a wonderful surprise!