Jason and I had met on a kickball team with Atlanta Sport & Social Club, an intramural league in Atlanta. My friends and I had been playing on teams over the span of 2 years and came to meet a ton of new people who eventually became good friends. Jason quickly became one of them and we invited him to more and more of our get togethers. Fast forward a few months and we realized "okay, this could be something."

We were walking the beach behind Casa Ybel, on Sanibel Island, FL. I had brought Jason here in the years before. Sanibel has become a tradition with my family; we head to this side of Florida every July to vacation for a few days. Jason and I were walking the beach after dinner that night, watching the amazing sunset and picking up tons of shells from the recent tide. Right before we decided to head back to the resort, he dropped down to one knee and proposed.