I recruited Alex to join the Pricing team at Asurion but we worked out of different offices so we never met in person till a fine fall day where I came to his office for a meeting. He says he turned to his coworker and asked "who is that?!" and by the time I got back to my desk I had an inner-office chat message suggesting we should get drinks sometime and talk about "pricing". Well after one first date raincheck (no I was not trying to play hard to get) and almost a second raincheck due to a headache, Alex picked me up with his new puppy, Summit, in toe and we went on what would be our first date to Von Elrods in Germantown. By our third date he revealed to me that he didn't ask me out to just "talk about pricing"....and well you can guess the rest! So even though he teases me for this line I like to say "I recruited him but in the end he really recruited me."

We were in my hometown of Eureka, CA (the real Northern California) and were a mile or so into our hike in the old growth redwood forest, my brother and mom were with us. There was a giant fallen tree that Alex suggested we "take a picture" on top of. Before I knew it Alex was on one knee and I said "YES!" Come to find out my brother was in on the whole thing and his backpack full of "snacks" was really full of champagne, cheese and crackers. We found a bench by a creek, popped champagne and enjoyed the still and dense silence of the forest! It could not have been a more perfect day.