Bailey here to provide you with the ever-romantic story of how Skylar and I met. We met in March of 2017 through mutual friends (thanks Graceville guys). It was my senior year at MSUM and I was hanging out at the guys' house the day after going out downtown in Fargo with them to celebrate my acceptance into law school. Let's just say we celebrated accordingly, and I wasn't feeling (or looking) the best that next morning. Skylar showed up unexpectedly to pay the Graceville guys a visit. He took one look at me and said "You look rough." I was not in the mood for sass that morning, and said "And who are you?" This is how we met, and we still laugh about it today. We saw each other a couple times throughout the summer at bonfires and game nights at the Graceville guys' house before I moved to Minneapolis for law school.

We never saw each other much during my first semester in Minneapolis, however we did have a fun Halloween celebration with the Graceville guys when I was home one weekend. Then, I came home to Fargo-Moorhead for my Christmas break. One weekend I was hanging out with (you guessed it) the Graceville guys and we planned to travel to visit a friend out of town. Skylar decided to join last minute (now admitting that he joined so he could hang out with me) and we had a blast hanging out all weekend. That turned into the two of us hanging out on New Years, and then practically every day until I went back to Minneapolis. Two weeks after going back to Minneapolis for school, Skylar came and visited me. We went to Minnehaha Falls, a Timberwolves game, and best of all, he asked me to be his girlfriend (and of course I said yes).

For the next nearly two years, we had some of the greatest adventures of our lives. We traveled to Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, attended so many concerts, set a goal to visit all 67 Minnesota State Parks (we're nearly halfway there at 30), and went on a hot air balloon ride to name a few. On top of that, we powered through the struggles of long distance dating (including the dreadful "Sad Sundays" when we had to leave one another) and Skylar supported me unbelievably through law school stress. On October 18, 2019, we visited the winery where we had taken our hot air balloon ride a couple months earlier and Skylar got down on one knee. The rest is history!