Easter is my favorite Holiday. I think I need to preface this section with that. We always go to church as a family, my sister and I dress up in cute Easter dresses & have the best day as a family. NEVER DID I EXPECT EASTER TO HAVE A WHOLE NEW MEANING TO ME IN 2024. THE DAY I SAID YES TO THE LOVE OF MY LIFE. A DAY I WILL NEVER FORGET.

Okay let me reverse back before I get ahead of myself. Like any regular Easter, I had plans to attend church with my family. My mom usually buys my sister, Kylie, and I an Easter dress each year for church. This year (clever mom) made sure my dress was white. I woke up on Easter morning, Kyle just ended shift the fire house at 7:30 that morning. I met Kyle at his apartment to ride together to Heartland Church. To me, church was a normal, beautiful, peaceful, Easter service. For him, I can’t even imagine...

Service ended, and as we head back out to the truck, we got a text from Kyle’s mom. We were supposed to meet his family for an Easter brunch at Root and Bone at 12:30, but we were going to be really early. Kyle’s mom asked if we wanted to meet at Butler’s campus to take some Easter pics and walk around because we had time to kill before reservations. Once we arrive at Butler, Kyle calls his parents and they let us know they are by the bell tower and water fountain. As we walked closer to them, I started to get butterflies in my stomach like something strange was occurring.

They were waiting at the bell tower with Easter baskets for us with an egg on top that we were instructed to open. I thought we were supposed to open our eggs at the same time (I misunderstood my instructions, by no surprise), and so I just stood there waiting for Kyle. Kyle's dad finally had to say to me “ I think you can go ahead and open your egg”. I then get my questions to open my egg and see a letter inside. Before I opened the egg, there was a split second I thought he maybe put the engagement ring in the egg...

When I saw the letter, I instantly started shaking. I read the first sentence that said something like, “The first time I met you at the game night at Haley and Eric’s”... and then I started sobbing. I couldn't read the rest because my entire body was shaking. I pretended to read the letter as Kyle was fumbling for the ring in his Easter basket. As I was studying the piece of paper, I saw out of the corner of my eyes Kyle kneeling down on one knee in front of me, also crying. I think we both blacked out after that moment and a few minutes later, we were engaged, a ring was on my finger, and Kyle had proposed to me. Best moment of my life.

Kyle truly thought of everything. It was the perfect plan and day. He even had photographer and videographer filming our special moment. After the engagement, we drove back to my parents' house and all of my best friends and family were there to surprise and celebrate us. My grandparents even came into town from Mississippi! I cannot thank our families and friends enough for being there to celebrate us on our special day. We are so blessed to have the best support system. I cannot wait for what the future holds for us!

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