Katrina

We met in the United States Army at Ft. Stewart in Georgia. He was a mortarman in the infantry and recently returned from deployment in Iraq. She worked at Ft. Stewart's Winn Army Community Hospital as a surgical technologist. Through co-workers, her friend from the hospital and a friend in his unit (who happened to be dating each other), they met at a small get together. She arrived first and found the event to be somewhat lackluster and the other partygoers to be lacking, until Chris arrived. We quickly began to converse, he fed her corny lines and told silly jokes and she laughed and thought how charming he was. We made plans to meet at the beach the next day only to be disappointed that the other didn't show up. We spoke a few days later only to find that he had gone to St. Simons island and she had gone to Jekyll island! From then on, they were inseparable. We decided in November 2011 that we needed to get away together. Due to conflicting work schedules we only saw each other three nights a week and it was beginning to wear on us. After three stressful months we were elated that our trip to Maine had finally arrived. We spent the first day skiing until we were exhausted. We woke early the next day so we could spend the entire day skiing. We decided to start at the top of the mountain and ski the whole way down. Little did Katrina know that Chris had a mission, the day before being used for "recon". The view at the summit was breathtaking, there was a small path that could be used to take in the surrounding scenery. Chris suggested they take some pictures with the valleys and surrounding mountains in the background. He took off his skis, which Katrina found to be a little odd since they hadn't taken off their skis to get pictures the day before however, she shrugged it off and quickly followed suit. Meanwhile, Chris took out the camera and took terrible pictures; he was so nervous and worried since this important event rested on his shoulders, he wanted it to be perfect. As Katrina took in the surrounding scenery, Chris stealthily took the ring out. Katrina turned to find Chris on one knee holding out the most beautiful ring she had ever seen. He told her he loved her more than anything and asked her to marry him. Katrina was stunned and left speechless but quickly recovered and, of course, said "yes!".