We met on August 4th, 2017, around 1am at a bar in Louisville. It was a random Thursday night and neither of us planned on going out that night. Margo had just gotten dumped earlier that day and Lucas was out even though he had to work at 8:00 the next morning. Neither one of us really wanted to go out, but we were both persuaded by friends to come anyways (hello fate!!!). We met, we talked, we had one too many drinks, we took a Snapchat video together, and the rest is history. And by history we mean 15 months of long distance from November of 2017 to February of 2019 while Lucas lived in Fort Rucker, Alabama for Army Aviation school to train to fly Black Hawks and Margo stayed in Louisville to start law school. Plus another 11 months of long distance from February of 2019 to January of 2020 while Lucas went on his first deployment and Margo stayed in Louisville to finish law school. So we'd like to give a shout out to iMessage and FaceTime.

In November of 2018, Lucas found out that he was going to be deploying for a year immediately after his flight school graduation in February of 2019. We were both understandably upset because we had plans to finally start our lives together in Louisville after Lucas graduated and now those plans were going to be put on hold for another year. Lucas hinted and suggested that they get engaged before he deployed and Margo, not wanting to put more pressure on Lucas before he had to leave, told him not to propose before he left and to just wait until he got home from deployment. Well, Lucas (and the universe) had other plans. In January of 2019, Lucas was on his way back to Fort Rucker, Alabama to finish up his last month of flight school after he had spent his two week Christmas break in Kentucky. About 10 minutes from his house in Alabama he got into a car accident that totaled his truck. Luckily he and our dog were okay. By some miracle, Lucas' insurance company gave him a lot more than he was expecting for his totaled truck. Lucas took that extra money and bought Margo a ring (and as he claims, a much nicer ring than he would have bought had he not totaled his truck). He tried to find the perfect time to propose. There were many planned attempts that got ruined or canceled. But finally, on February 22, 2019, just the two of us on our couch, he proposed. Since Margo had explicitly told Lucas not to propose before he left, she had no clue what was going on and assumed that because Lucas was acting very serious and nervous he was about to tell her bad news. The whole time he was talking she kept asking him, "what's wrong with you?" and, "why are you acting like this?" After he got down on one knee and pulled out the ring, everything made sense.