It is often said that your special someone is right under your nose and little did we know the truth that statement would hold for us. Kyle and I worked together at Adventure Landing Water Park for two years. Kyle was an EMT, and I was the water park assistant manger. Although we worked together for so long we never really had a chance to get to know each other. Outside of work we moved in very different circles.  In October of 2009 we were both working the annual haunted house that Adventure Landing hosts and after work everyone decided to go out to Denny’s for dinner. Kyle randomly offered to give me a ride and we hit it off right away. A few days later he asked me to lunch. This was to be our first official date at Cruisers Grill in Jacksonville Beach. Our conversation went as most do when you’re getting to know each other and we started to realize that our circles weren’t all that far apart. Kyle was well known by my Aunt, had actually worked with my sister and was good friends with my cousin and they graduated from high school together. Kyle and I have been inseparable since the lunch we shared at Cruisers. The proposal…. My birthday is on November 9th and for my birthday Kyle took me on a helicopter tour over St. Augustine. This was something we had been talking about doing for over a year. On November 19th we drove to St. Augustine for our tour of the nations oldest city via the sky. The view was amazing and we were so excited. While flying over the beach Kyle asked me to look at the sand. I looked down to see that written in the sand was, Marry me Kristen?  When I turned back to him he was holding a beautiful ring and asked me to share my life with him. I was shocked, excited and began to cry, and I almost forgot to even say YES! It was better than I could have imagined and we CANT WAIT to get married and begin our life. Yes, it truly is a small world but I know it holds lots of wonderful special moments for us!
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