Tom and I met 8 years ago when I began working at the Front Desk at the Four Seasons. I did not like him at first, but then he grew a beard over the off season and, wow, did he look good! I continued to play hard to get, but he eventually won me over during a float trip with our friends. I was so afraid to jump off the “Jumping Rock,” but Tom calmed me down, talked me through it and we dove into the Snake River together, hand in hand. From “beach days” sunbathing at Jackson Lake in the summer to knee-deep powder days snowboarding at JHMR in the winter, Tom and I became inseparable and fell in love.
We moved to Denver in 2016, started new jobs and adopted a puppy named Moose! Moose became our everything from the moment we brought her home – we like to think that she is the most-loved dog in the world. Christmas of 2017 was spent at Tom’s childhood home in Orinda, California and all of us “kids” were diligently searching for the pickle ornament on the Christmas tree since the first one to find the pickle gets to open the first Christmas present – a Crowell family tradition. 7-minutes or so later, I finally found the pickle! I turned towards Tom excitedly and found him down on one knee, with his mother’s ring. I thought he was fake proposing, again, as he has done this once before to be funny. Then, I saw the tears in his mother’s eyes and realized he was truly proposing this time. What a wonderful Christmas!
– Bride, Jean Crowell
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