Anyway, we met when Kevin came to the U-M Athletic Media Relations Department for a job interview. He already had met with his co-workers and was waiting to meet with our director, Bruce Madej. Of course, Bruce was BS-ing someone on the phone so Kevin was waiting outside his office. I was a senior and in my third year of work in media relations and was working in the office right next door (on football bios, what else) when Kevin came in to say “hello!” I thought he was so cute but didn’t think much more as this was just an interview and there was no guarantee he would get the job. About a month later, though, he joined the staff, leaving behind his gig at Southern Illinois University (the Saluki Stompwagon).
Over the next few months, my friends and I CONSTANTLY asked Kevin to do things with us but he always declined. Finally, he relented and decided to watch some Monday Night Football with us one night. I’m sure his decision had more to do with the Vikings playing than with me but … Anyway, that was one of the first nights we hung out and we had a great time. On Valentine’s Day, he got me flowers – the first time anyone ever sent me flowers – and things just kind of took off from there. For the next year or so, he worked at U-M and I moved home and attended grad school at UDM. We were together on weekends and it was amazing. In the summer of 1996, though, my perfect little world was shaken up a bit when Kevin took a job at Washington University in St. Louis. He would work there for the next four years and we would do the dreaded long-distance thing for three of those years.
In March of 2000, he finally moved back to Michigan and, in April, he proposed. We then spent the next eight months furiously planning our wedding. We were married in Ann Arbor on Saturday, Dec. 2 and the rest, as they say, is history. While it’s hard for me to digest that we’ve known each other 12 years, it’s even harder to believe we’ve been married almost six years. It seems like just yesterday, even after all this time!
OK, this is no fun without some old-school pictures.
This is the first picture I ever had of Kevin. He is sitting at the desk I was sitting at when we first met.
HOLY CRAP, look at all that damn hair! What was I thinking back then? ANYWAY, this is at my graduation from U-M in April of 1995. Me, Kevin and my best friend, Betsie (Simon) Feldman.
Taken on the photo deck at Michigan Stadium in November 1995. Check that scoreboard, U-M - 31, Ohio State - 23! We had to take a picture of it because beating Ohio State doesn't happen that much anymore. I miss John Cooper.
Outside the cathedral in St. Louis. When I would visit, we would go to mass here all the time - it was beautiful! We usually would follow this up with a trip to the Galleria and then dinner on "The Hill." God, I miss St. Louis SO much!
Here we're standing in the hallway outside the Michigan Union Ballroom just before entering our wedding reception. I'm so glad we met and I'm so glad you sent me flowers and I'm so glad we're married. As I always tell Kevin, he is my prince and I'm so lucky to have met him all those years ago.
