My name is Kayla McCullough and I've been a proud Air Force wife for almost 5 years. My husband,Justin, went to Basic Training at Lackland AFB in August of 2008, just like every soon to be Airman does. When he left, we were young and in love (19 to be exact) and had been dating for 2 years. When he graduated basic, of course I went to see him graduate and I was beyond proud of him and absolutely blown away at how handsome he looked in his Blues! After all of the graduation festivities were over, we went to the Alamo and the famous River Walk. After we had been there for a while, Justin and his mom started acting so strange. I had never see him so nervous so I knew something was up. I had no idea what was about to happen. His parents and little brother wondered off and left us alone so I was thinking that we were finally going to get a little alone time to talk and catch up. We were walking around and just enjoying each others company and the fact that we were finally reunited. But then he pulled me into this little side alley that had a beautiful fountain and flowers all around. As I stood there admiring how beautiful this little secluded part of the River Walk was, Justin grabbed my hand, pulled me close to him, and got right in my face with the ring in his hands between us. As I stood there with tears in my eyes, jaw on the floor, and totally shocked, he looked at me with the sweetest sideways grin on his face and said those 4 wonderful words that every girl dreams of hearing..."Will you marry me?" I said yes about a thousand times and he placed a beautiful ring on my finger! We hugged and I planted a huge kiss on him, then stepped back remembering the ridiculous "no touching" rule. It was so hard not to but I knew I had to so he wouldn't get in trouble. As we walked out of the alley, his parents and brother were standing a few feet from the entrance with big smiles on their faces and trying to act surprised as to what had just happened...they didn't do a very good job since they had been in on the plan the whole time! I was on cloud nine, but then was pushed off my happy cloud the next day when we had to say our "see ya laters". It was harder than I thought it would be, but I knew it wasn't for long and that I would see him in a couple of months. I tried to stay positive and tried to occupy my mind with wedding planning. Little did I know that those wedding plans would come to a screeching halt a few weeks later. But that's a different story for a different day :)
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