We officially met at Allison’s birthday party in LaCrosse, 2018. Although Bailey likes to tell people that he had his sights on her after a brief encounter at a Culver’s a year prior. They have survived long distance, moving to Chicago during the Pandemic, and Allison’s graduate program! Bailey proposed on April 22nd, 2023 at mirror lake state park. A planned weekend get away back to Wisconsin to Escape big city life. long weekend get away. He popped the question after a hike named pulpit rock. Along the trail there were check points that detailed love stories of couples who used to live on the now state park land. During the hike it rained, snowed and hailed. But by the time we got to the end, the sun came out just in time for Allison to set up her camera timer to cement the trip and commemorate Earth day. She turned around to find him down on one knee. It was a perfect day!