06/01/2026
Romance at the tiny Butcher Shop in Chugwater!
It was in the summer of 2023, that a beautiful young girl stopped by the shop to pick up meat for her parents.
On a whim, Alex asked if she’d like a job.
A couple weeks later she came for her first day, and the two young boys -normally rambunctious and nearly impossible to keep focused on their work- suddenly forgot how to act altogether.
They were completely tongue tied.
Red-faced and stumbling over their words, they tried to explain the work while she stood there looking politely confused and a little unsure of what was happening.
For nearly a month, the three of them worked mostly in silence.
Chuckling we joked that we had never gotten that much work out of those boys before.
But for one boy in particular… he was completely starstruck.
He kept stealing glances in her direction while she quietly kept to herself, focused on the job in front of her.
Then one day they discovered a shared passion: Hunting.
Hunting conversations turned into hunting trips, and hunting trips slowly turned into deeper conversations about life, faith, work, and the future.
Somewhere along the way, friendship quietly began to take root. A friendship that was being built through common interests, shared values, and the growing up that happens in those late teenage and early adult years.
Then last fall they left in opposite directions, one headed north and the other south.
The young lady had been offered her dream job working as a ranch hand, while the young man accepted an opportunity to learn a trade that had always fascinated him.
But distance has a way of revealing what really matters because no matter how far apart they went, the friendship and affection they had built kept drawing them back toward one another.
Eventually they realized they didn’t want this to simply remain a friendship. They wanted to build a life together.
We are incredibly excited to be welcoming into our family a young woman we had already come to love long before we ever imagined she would one day become part of it.
Congratulations to Bradlyn & Miranda!!❤️
