In April 2015, I was presented with an opportunity that would open doors to allow me to achieve my dream...becoming a world traveling culinary journalist. I created a networking connection with a representative for Food Network. They suggested my move to Las Vegas so that i could supplement my Advertising/Marketing and Journalism background with an 18 month culinary school degree. Upon completion, I will have the opportunity to do magazine and block writing for a network that always held my rapt attention as a child. I am even working with a Food Network Chef (Chris Santos) in the meantime! This begins my travel up the ladder where, hopefully, I will network and rise to become a writer for famed publications such as W and Vogue.

This blessing came with a price, I had to leave my familial comfort zone and, even more importantly, I had to leave the love of my life. A man that I have spent almost every single day with since September 12, 2010. The day that he asked me for the opportunity to carry my heart in his hands. He was building a life in Indianapolis, and I did not want to come in between that. With a heavy heart, I made a leap that would forever change my career trajectory, but, it also may have cost me my King...

My Queen is gone.

God woke me up on a Monday morning with a new and inspiring feeling. He placed on my heart that it was time for me to be with the woman that He placed in my life six years previously. I made it my mission to accept God's vision and to pursue happiness and the woman that I was in love with. I knew everything was right when I was offered a job in under a week located in Las Vegas, and I had an offer to buy out my current lease out in Indianapolis. This would allow me to move in the time that I needed to. My last mission was to make sure that I made this woman the love of my life, for the REST of my life, and to ask for her hand in marriage and to receive her family's blessing. Her family was more than happy to give me their blessing, and I was able to find the perfect rose gold engagement ring.

I said goodbye to family and friends and decided to drive 27 hours across the country with our mutual good friend Don to be with the one I am deeply in love with. Immediately after arriving in Las Vegas, I got down on one knee. I asked my Queen to be my partner within a covenant with God for eternity...and she said YES!