falling in love

Sending out all the wedding announcements has gotten us all sentimental, and so I thought it would be fun to reminisce again about how Sean and I met...how we became "We".

The summer after high school my best friend Vita and I moved out to Seattle to live on our own and have some adventures in the Wild West. Before heading out there, the two of us had arranged jobs with AmeriCorps. Well, half way through my year of service one of our team members resigned and someone new was hired to take her place...Charles' buddy from Japanese class. Sean and I both remember the exact moment we met...I was making copies in the office and Sean was being given the tour before his first team meeting. He had on his jean jacket, baseball hat, and his sparkly red messenger bag. Neither of us claims 'love at first sight', indeed neither of us would ever have guessed how our lives would be changed by whatever twist of fate it was that had us in the same corner of the world at the same time for the same reason. But no doubt there was some connection from the first day...an easiness in each other's company and sweet admiration for a kindred spirit. And of course we're both pretty funny, so we made each other laugh.

But who knows how things might have been different if not for Sharon Davis--an older member of our AmeriCorps team, an outspoken firecracker of a lady, with a huge heart and some crazy strong intuition. "I saw the way you looked at her!" Sharon leaned over and whispered to Sean during that first meeting. She saw something that we didn't realize until several months later, and she played matchmaker nudging us along right from the beginning. Now we joke that she was some kind of guardian angel since she seems to have disappeared...we haven't been able to find her and tell her how right she was. "That man's gonna love you forever," she once told me.

We don't really have an "engagement" story....we just kind of knew. Before a year had gone by we realized our fantastic luck...to find a love story when we weren't even looking. Our seven year anniversary is on March 13th...the date of our first kiss. We never looked back.