“Where there is love, there is life” - M. Gandhi

It was a hot 4th of July weekend where Alexa was throwing her good friend and old college roommate, Sarah Koch, a bachelorette party at Summer Fest in Milwaukee. After hours of gallivanting all over, the crew decided to head back to Sarah’s apartment. On the way back, Sarah tried to FaceTime family members over and over again till someone picked up. After four attempts, the reluctant cousin, Chad, picked up his phone at 2 am, even though he had to be up at 5 am. Arriving at the apartment, the girls were met with heavily smells of frozen pizza cooking. Alexa did not hesitate to dive into 3 pieces of pizza while Sarah was still on the phone with Chad. Somehow Sarah decided to switch the view from herself to Alexa who had just shoved the third piece of pizza into her mouth. Quick pleasantries were exchanged, but a small spark was ignited in both. After a groggy and coffee deprived morning, both Chad and Alexa received text messages from Sarah with random phone numbers. Chad had been busy all morning to text first and Alexa just couldn’t wait. So she decided to send out one simple text: “What do you say to someone you briefly met on FaceTime?” After that, it was like a modernized 80’s highschool love story. Talking on the phone all night and cute texts in the morning. Fast forward a few days to the first date. Monday night July 10th, they decided to meet up to go to Chads son’s championship baseball game. Anxiously they were met with the whole town of Pearl City along with Chad’s mom, dad, ex-wife, ex-wife’s husband, their two twin girls, ex- MIL, and ex-GMIL. Chad thought for sure Alexa would run for the flat plain hills of IL, but to his surprise she went along like a champ. Easton’s team ended up winning that day! After the the big win, the two decided to get some well deserved drinks and dinner where the laughs and smiles continued. A year later they were engaged and in a couple months they will be married; Laughing and smiling the whole way.