graduated from the University of Idaho with a Bachelor of Science degree in communications-journalism, graduating in 1987. On August 29, 1988, when she was 24 years old, Sara Palin eloped with Todd Palin, who had been her high-school boyfriend. Todd Palin works for BP as an oil-field production operator and owns a commercial fishing business. The couple have five children: sons Track and Trig and daughters Bristol, Willow, and Piper. Palin served two terms on the Wasilla, Alaska city ...