Kyle is from South Jordan, UT and returned a year ago from serving in the Atlanta, GA spanish speaking mission. I decided to serve a mission as well, and was called to the SLC, UT Temple Square Mission. I loved every part of it, but a very important part of my mission was when I was called to serve my outbound mission from temple square, to the Atlanta, GA mission. This is where Kyle and I met, I know it's cliche, but we did and in our defense we weren't around eachother much in the mission, but we did apparently notice eachother. When I returned back to Temple Square I served for a few more months and a week before I was to go home, Kyle came to visit me on the square. We got in touch with each other thru facebook after the mission and began to text, and talk on the phone everyday. I had made arrangements to go up to UT before Kyle and I started talking, for Halloween. When Kyle found out I was coming up, he asked me on a date. It was the first of many to come. We carved jack-o-laterns with his family, made pizza, went to a haunted mansion, and watched one of our favorite movies "Iron Man". About a month later I was offered a job in Utah, and I moved up the day after Thanksgiving. Kyle and I began dating and in December he asked me to be his girlfriend. We were together as much as possible until Kyle went up to school. We made it thru a semester of long distance and weekend dating, thankfully, and then summer came. All summer long we had so much fun boating, going to the zoo, camping, going to Park City and taking a trip down to AZ for Kyle to meet my family.
As the summer got closer to an end, we knew we didn't want to have to go thru another semester of being that far apart. So I started looking for a job closer to where Kyle would be attending school up in Logan at USU. I was able to find a job at a dental office in a small town right out out Logan called Brigham City. I was so excited, especially because I had been wanting to start working in the dental field. I got an apartment and my parents came up all the way from AZ to help move my belongings up. They are the best and I love them. It was during this time that Kyle and I started to look at rings. So for about 3 months we did that. I am not going to lie I started to get impatient wondering if it would ever happen! Then it did and this is how the story goes:
Kyle's mom, sister and I were going to pick up my new phone. Out of the blue my boyfriends sister says, “Hey Krista, my friend cancelled on me, we were supposed to go do something on Wednesday night, since I don’t work on Thursday. I was wondering if we could do like a girls night that night?” I am like yah! I got all ready for her to come up and she made it up around 6:30pm. We hop in her car and head up to Logan to check out a movie and pick up something to eat. We get done with every thing around 9:30pm. Now my boyfriend had just started a new job that required him to work until 8:30pm each night, and so we didn’t talk much until around that time. I had texted him and he didn’t respond, but I didn’t think much about it. We get back to my apartment around 10pm. I am so tired and her phone rings just as we get out of the car. It was her friend and she was hysterically crying over the phone. Her boyfriend had cheated on her, so Shannon asked if it would be ok if she sat out in her car and talked to her for a bit. I said sure and made my way up to my apt. I open the door and there are white rose petals all over the room and about 200 candles lit everywhere. On the coffee table is a lap top that says “click me” . So I walk thru the rose petal pathway and click the computer. Photos of our last years worth of dating start playing along with one of our favorite songs. I started to get teary eyed and at the end it said I love you. Then I hear Kyle say it and he comes walking out from the back room in a suit. He says he has a question for me and then he gets down on his knee and pulls out the ring and asks me to marry him. He had fondu waiting for us in the kitchen and after we were done we went to celebrate with his family, who had come up to help set up everything and celebrate with us! It was the best night, so far, of my life!
