We were at bracket finals 2019 at keystone raceway park Jen was there with her dad who was racing and this is Marks hometown track for racing but he just started his new job so was not racing that day but he showed up to watch after work. He saw Jen in the staging lanes and just had to know who she was, with some asking around he figured out she was double 00 Joe’s daughter. After a few messages back and forth through Facebook about a year went by they saw each other again at bracket finals and another race at empire dragway and chatted some more. Jen finally gave mark a chance and drove out to Latrobe Pennsylvania to hangout for a weekend and the rest is history.
We were heading to a fancy birthday dinner with our best friends and he knew my favorite spot to take pictures is Mt. Washington in Pittsburgh right down the street from the restaurant we were going to for dinner so we dressed up nice and stopped at the grand view overlook for pictures. Not thinking anything was off we are posing for the pictures as a group then some couple shots and he said “I have something to ask you.” I was like no way he’s not….. YES HE DID, got down on one knee in the windy cold and it was the best day ever!