Thanks to Traci Malvich and Linda Stokes, Gabe and I worked at the City of McCall together. Gabe was a spreadsheet nerd crunching numbers, and I worked in HR. We worked a while together in the same office and were friendly enough, when he could look up from his ten-key. ;) A few years later, Traci and I were having lunch together at the ice skating rink amd Gabe walked up. He said hello and we all caught up for a bit. We were excited to see eachother. He texted me later in the day. He loves to tease me that I deleted his number from my phone. So it came across my phone as “unknown” and said “Hi Brooke. It wss nice to see you today.” But I knew it was Gabe. It all started from there. We fell in love quickly and he asked me to marry him when we were at the Shore Lodge in January. ♥️