7 years

Seven years ago today Bracken & I met.  This post turned into me reminiscing about the whole campaign and our dating...you are warned. We met at a meeting for anyone running for college senator positions.  There were three Business College senators and six people running. Bracken and his friend Sam decided they would choose one other person to campaign with and hopefully all three would win.  If I remember right they asked one guy to campaign with them and he said no. Then they figured it might be good to have a girl run with them to get the "girl vote." I was the only girl.  I'm sure I impressed them with my extreme intelligence as well when they introduced Sam to me as Cody and then told me his name was Sam but they were laughing so I had no clue what to call him.  I think I called him Cody for awhile before they finally corrected me.   We decided to all run together and we met two days later to decide our platform and how we would campaign.All three of us spent the next week together making signs and plotting what to do next.  Except for one night that Bracken said he was "busy" so Sam & I worked all evening making signs and we ended up catching Bracken playing poker with his buddies and girls but I've forgiven him....it has been seven years after all.. Plus I wasn't the ideal campaign partner either, the morning of elections they woke up at 5 a.m. and were waiting for me and I was sleeping and hung up on them twice thinking it was the alarm on my phone before I realized I was suppose to be somewhere. (Bracken had full disclosure going into marriage that I am not a morning person!)
Our campaign signs were pretty awesome (and nerdy). We changed them everyday and involved everything from life-size stick figures of ourselves, forks, a couch, a Nordic track, and a live chicken. We covered the lawn in front of the business school with plastic forks and had a sign that said "Fork-it about voting for anyone else"  The Nordic Track was on the lawn another day with "Let us Work out for you" and the Chicken coop was on the lawn the day of voting with "Don't be a chicken, Vote for Bracken, Sam & Skye. I can't remember the sayings of the other ones. The chicken escaped from it's makeshift chicken-wire pen and I ended up chasing it around campus! Bracken and Sam were in class so Ben Bess that was campaigning against us ended up helping me catch the darn thing!  I also got a parking ticket for parking in a handicap spot at 11 p.m. while we were unloading a sign from my truck, but luckily campus parking tickets you could flirt talk some of the officers out of making you pay.
We went on our first date on March 5. I realized I was interested in Bracken when my roommate asked me if I could get him to ask her on a date and I was thinking...wait I want to go on a date with him!  March 9 was election day.  When the results were announced that night and we all didn't win I was so nervous that it would be awkward between Bracken and me. I was so relieved when Bracken called me the next day to hang out and we pretty much spent time together every day after that. I ended up going up to his parents house the next week over spring break. I was going as a friend but as we were making the five hour drive up there I got really nervous realizing I needed to impress these people because I liked their son a lot!  We were officially engaged May 20 and married August 26th.  It ended up I didn't even keep my Senator position since we got married and spent the next semester in Washington, DC doing internships. It worked out the best for both of us in the end!

I wish we had a picture from when we were dating but we don't have a single one. Sad, huh?!  This is at a Washington Nationals game, about a month after we got married.