The unofficial story of how I met my husband, (which I don’t usually tell people), is: Technically I met him while serving as a missionary in Grand Junction, Colorado (his home town). Some people I knew were excited because “the Stagg twins” were coming home from their missions in South America, and I didn’t think anything of it. Then, in the hallway at church on Sunday, Grant and his twin brother James said “hi” to my companion and I. Afterwards, my companion turned to me and said “if I have to go a whole 18 months without dating and the boys look like that, it’s gonna be a long ride.” I laughed and agreed that they were attractive, but off limits. Fast forward a year, after I came home from serving a mission, I met Grant at a Labor Day BBQ. I didn’t recognize him, but, when he said he was from Grand Junction, and he had a twin brother, I put two and two together. I didn’t tell him I remembered meeting him before until we had been dating for a while, and he pretty much doesn’t remember meeting me, but hey, it worked out anyways. :)

A big part of our life is always about love, whether it is family love, relationship love or friendship love. In other words, love is what makes the world go round.. not trying to sound cheesy but it literally does! I've been fortunate to have seen many happy couples in my life. I've seen my parents go through so much with a smile on their face always. But I wanted to take this opportunity to talk about a couple whom I've admired for the past several years who also happened to be my very best friends. Back in 2010 when I joined college they were good friends, they started out to be good friends and then fell in love gradually. This is a fairy tale story with lot of its own ups and downs. They've had to face their fair share of problems but they always came out of it even stronger than before. They got married recently and are true couple goals. We graduated in Information and Technology and she worked in an IT company for a few years before she got married but it was only after she got married that she realized her dream was to become a makeup artist. That couldn't have been easy just turning your world upside down overnight wanting to go ahead and make a career change after you studied a lot and  worked a lot in same field. It is never easy and it is not something that you can go through without a support system in place. she found her support system in him. He was always there helping her making sure she will achieve her dreams and always stood by her. She recently shared with me how in one of her events there was a power outage and she was not able to dress up the bride and her husband stood still holding both of their phones with flashlights on for quite sometime just making sure that she does her fine job without any hurdle and that is the kind of love that I wish we all would have in our lives. Isn’t love all about letting the other person grow to be the person they've always wanted to become and taking care of each other no matter what?

Here are few pictures of my favourite couple and my best friends.

I’ve been lucky to have strong marriage role models throughout my life. My parents met in high school and have been together for 25 years, both sets up grandparents were together for 50+ years! (Wow!). However there were no crazy “how they met stories”. The closest thing I have is my Dads “proposal” story.

My Mom had caught wind that my Dad had bought her a ring. When he went over to see her my Mom would NOT let him in the house, yelling in excitement through the window until finally he proposed on the porch with her in the window. (This story describes my mom really well). They later went to Capitola and staged a “real proposal” with a photographer and props, but the actual story will always make us laugh and remind the family who the boss is! 

Here’s one set of grandparents (the ones I have tattooed on my arm for those at HQ). Married for 50+ years!

And here is my Dad re-proposing to my Mom at the end of a hike in Canada!