We originally met through martial arts at regular TaeKwonDo rank testings, tournaments, summer camps, and late nights on Bourbon Street. I would travel to Alabama, and she would travel to Louisiana with our respective schools. We became most familiar with one another at martial arts camp one summer. This was the camp when I just so happened to be testing for my instructor certification, and she thought it would be funny to get another certified instructor to enter me into the camp dance competition (she wasn't a high enough rank to make me do it herself ;) ... Little did she know that I would go on to win the whole competition. That's OK. I made sure she paid for it when I instructed her class for my certification that evening (YOU CAN KICK HIGHER THAN THAT, MS. PETERS!).

We both decided to take the day off and spend time at Oak Mountain State Park. We had a relaxing picnic lunch just off the bank of the lower fishing lake, and Kyle proposed just before we went on an evening hike. It was a magical day.