Sadie's Version:

On December 1st, 2018 my best friend and roommate Katie and I went down to Denver to meet up with her coworker. He (Chad) was going to meet us at the Parade of Lights and then take us out on the town.

We had a lot of fun that night! We talked most of the night, I learned a lot about his vast knowledge of craft beer and the brewing process. I told him all about my dogs and my love for the outdoors. I remember thinking he had a fantastic beard, a great smile and was very cute

We followed each other on Instagram.

And that was that.

Or so I thought.

Fast forward to May of 2020.

We are all navigating through the unknown, in the midst of the Covid pandemic. I kept seeing Chad's posts about "Getting lost in the canyon", he was always putting up his hammock in magical places. (You all know how much I love nature and that my happy place is in the mountains.)

I reached out one day and asked him where he goes and told him that he had inspired me to buy a hammock for my own outdoor adventures.

He responded with: "Well, I could tell you where it is or I could take you."

I of course took him up on the offer to join him on a canyon adventure.

My best friend Rachel joined us on that hike and at one point when Chad was up ahead of us she asked me. " What do you think of Chad? What do you think about dating him? I think you two would be really great together."

We stayed friends over the summer.

Finally, on Halloween, I invited Chad over for dinner. My plan was to tell him that I can't just be his friend anymore and that I have a massive crush on him.

Needless to say, that conversation went really well! Over the next year and a half we had so many fun adventures and on March 13th 2022 Chad cooked up a very sneaky plan with the help of our friends and families, to get me on my favorite trail in Boulder. He jumped out from behind a rock and asked me to marry him.

It's been an amazing couple years, I cant imagine my life with out my hunny. The best part is, that the best is yet to come. Cheers to forever my love.

Chad's Version:

Our story, for me, starts with my coworker and friend Katie, spending time talking about life and people watching at the fitness club. She was always telling me about her amazing roommate that she just moved in with and how much fun they were having. The two of them never left the house much and preferred the homebody life. In turn, Katie always heard about my adventures in the city and in the mountains. I never seemed to be at home. One day after I told Katie about a great cocktail bar I went to, she thought it would be a great idea if I took her and her roommate, Sadie, to a couple of these places in Denver soon. Plans were made around the Parade of Lights that Winter downtown. I will say I felt pretty cool taking two girls out on the town and bragged to anyone that would listen.

That night was a blast! I met them both on a cold winter evening downtown and we all watched the parade cruise by and I got to know Sadie a bit that night. I took them to the Seven Grand and Poka Lola Social Club. They had a good time it seemed, and my ego was inflated buying two awesome girls drinks that night. Win win.

Time flew by, years really, and I ended up leaving that job and started working from home. A few months after that career change, the pandemic surprised us all. Working from home and isolating got me pretty good and I relied on my hidden outdoor spots where I could hide from humanity, get some fresh air, and recharge. I would post my adventures on the Instagram, because ya know, that’s what influencers like me do. It always started with the first photo on my story with, “Into the canyon I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.” And then a bunch of really cool photos to make everyone jealous of my spots. Everyone was looking for conversation and a chance to escape this harsh reality we were all living in and I got a lot of responses from those stories. Sadie and I had shared Instagram accounts that night years ago in Denver, and one day, she asked if I could tell her where I was going, or even better, maybe take her out there sometime. Legit, was she single now??!?! I opted for the company, remembering this cute girl I had met through Katie from our night out and jumped on the opportunity. I had been planning a new hike in an area, where there wasn’t a trail, to get to one of my spots. She was down to explore it with me! Sadie ended up bringing her friend, Rachel, along and we had a blast. Finding our common love for getting into the mountains, Sadie and I planned a couple of hikes in the area soon after that. I got to meet Leo, her smallest of two dogs, on one of the hikes and kind of dropped him, opps. Our story could have ended there, but he was fine thankfully. The second hike, she convinced me to get up at like 3am or something and summit Bear Peak with her at sunrise. I am guessing the 3am part was punishment for dropping her dog. Once again, we had a good time hiking and then pandemic life, being as crazy as it was, we didn’t really hang out again for a while after that hike.

Months went by, and then around Halloween, Sadie asked me to come over for a home cooked dinner out of nowhere. She was living with her sister, Sydney, at the time I figured I was going to eat with them both. Wearing my typical t-shirt and jeans, I showed up to the house and knocked on the door. Sadie looked amazing! Wow. I was under-dressed for sure. I also found out that her sister was out for the evening, and it was just the two of us. While we caught up on our last several months of adventures, she hands me a glass of wine and we sat on the couch to a lovely meal. I was the only eating it seemed. Sadie was gearing up to tell me that she had a crush on me and wanted to be more than friends that night. That’s what the dinner invitation was all about! That my friends is the definition of BOLD in my books. Wow again! I sat in amazement of this girl’s courage, spent a few seconds trying to make sense of it all, and then leaned across the couch and kissed her. I am still impressed, and always will be with her for that night.

Many adventures were had together after that night. And a little after a year of dating, I offered up a dowry of small cows and asked her parents for their blessing to ask Sadie to marry me. I got family and friends involved to surprise her on her favorite hike the morning of March 13th . It’s a fun story that needed a lot of teamwork to pull it off. And well, at no surprise to you fine folks reading this on our Wedding website . . . she said YES!!!!