Meeting Sarah was years in the making, going back to Kevin working on a job in Maryland back in 2015-2017. On that project I met a lot of friends and people to hang out with over those few years. Some of those friends were Eric and Brooke Grewcock. Little did I know that would lead to meeting Sarah years later.

Several years after leaving that project, and working a few years in Pittsburgh PA on another, I moved to a project in Michigan near South Bend, a couple hours from Chicago in the summer of 2020. Shortly after moving to that project I received a message from someone I hadn’t talked to in a few years, that person was Brooke Grewcock.

Brooke reached out and said she had a good friend she wanted me to meet/connect with. And in Brooke’s words not sure how it will work out as it’s not really logistically reasonable and wasn’t sure how it would work out talking to a complete stranger.

So Brooke gave me and Sarah each other’s numbers to put us in touch. At this time Sarah had just recently left Chicago and was moving to Dallas. With it being Covid she was spending time between Dallas, Omaha, and visiting Chicago. Me and Sarah talked for a little bit but living in completely different parts of the country made it difficult.

Over the next few years we would talk every once in awhile. Whether that was when Sarah was going to be in Chicago doing something fun with her friends and seeing if I could make it out to Chicago to meet or when the Dallas Stars played the STL Blues in hockey with Sarah’s new found hockey fandom. Including Sarah and Brooke buying jerseys at a game. But with the messaging back and forth it never worked out to meet in person. Cue New Years Day 2024……

I was at home in KC getting ready to fly out for another week of work in TN the next day when I received a FaceTime from Sarah. Sarah was hanging out with Brooke and Eric at their house in Frisco. She called and asked if I wanted to go on a trip to Bali that April? One of the other couples that worked on the same project in Maryland was planning a trip to Bali and asked Brooke and Eric if they wanted to go that day. So they decided Sarah had to go on the trip as well, and thought it would be a perfect opportunity for me and Sarah to meet in person. So Sarah asked if I wanted to go to Bali, and me always being up for traveling and the next adventure said sure, just need to know the details.

So a few weeks go by and I hadn’t heard anything about the trip, so reached out to Sarah and asked if we were still going to Bali. The Bali trip didn’t work out and we didn’t go but that conversation led to Sarah saying I should just come down to Dallas to meet in person. So I bought flights and went to Dallas to meet Sarah a few weeks later.

We hit it off, and spent the next several weekends with each other between Omaha, Kansas City, and Dallas. And from there kicked off our long distance relationship. And our jet set relationship kept going with us visiting each other and making trips around the country to different cities and many sporting events.

All of this lead to the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo in January 2025. Sarah planned a weekend in Fort Worth to go to the rodeo and hang out with friends where we were staying at her favorite place Hotel Drover in the Stockyards. Unbeknownst to Sarah I planned on hijacking the Friday night of the weekend. We arrived in Fort Worth Friday afternoon and walked around the Stockyards going to stores and grabbing a few drinks. We all went back to the hotel to get ready for dinner. While Sarah was finishing getting ready I “went down to go meet the guys at the bar” and set the stage for the proposal. When Sarah came down with the girls I was able to get her alone and propose to her surprise! After that great night it brought us here.