We met at a house party that Brett Braunecker hosted. Brett was a coworker of Dawn and a fraternity brother of Brad. Dawn almost did not go to the party but her friend Angela convinced her to go. Thank goodness! Brad asked Brett for Dawn's number the next day. Our first date was at the Ram Restaurant in down town Indianapolis in August of 2004. We had enough time before dinner to play some games at Jillian's where Dawn kicked Brad's butt in racing games and still does to this day. After dinner we went to Cracker's Comedy Club. Brad's pager went off multiple times for work,because he was on call 24/7 at that time, and he ignored them all. We ended the night with watching a few episodes of "Boiling Points". We became an official couple on September 19th, 2004. We eventually bought Colts season tickets and enjoyed a whole season of going to games before we moved to a suburb of Chicago. After 5 months of bad traffic, only one set of friends nearby (Hi Paul and Marcy!) and not that great of a job for Brad, he started a job hunt. We moved to Nashville, TN for Brad's new job with Emdeon at the end of September 2006. Dawn started working at a health coaching company called Gordian Health Solutions in Nov of 2006. We've both been at the same jobs since then. We bought a house in Old Hickory, TN on Dec 15, 2006. A cute 1 story white brick house with black wrought iron shutters, and a yard just big enough and flat enough to suit our style. There were multiple times Brad thought about proposing, but for one reason or another he didn't. He finally proposed in the backyard by a fire made in our fire pit in October of 2007. The ring was my great grandmother's and it has been passed down. My mother generously gave the ring to Brad to be my engagement ring, which makes the engagement ring that much more near and dear to my heart.
