My husband and I met when I was just 16; we married 6 months later.I had been raised in a Christian home, but spent my early teen years running with a wild crowd. I ended up dropping out of school and then taking the California High School Proficiency Exam. In the fall, at the age of 16, I enrolled in Jr. College.As Christmas of [...]

It was the summer of 1992. Hot Texas days and equally humid evenings. My high school BFF and I were constantly in search of ways to entertain ourselves while she was home from college and before beginning my 4th semester at a local college, we did what most 19/20 year olds did during that era…..go work out at the local fitness center! Yep, our [...]

I'm Kailei. He's Brad. And we are two best friends in love. We might as well start from the very beginning... and then we will fast forward to the here and now. Brad and I met in Preschool. Really. We were instantly best friends... mainly because I insisted on such! One day, I noticed that Brad was playing with another little girl. I [...]

For 28 years I always heard common clichés like, “You’ll find the one when you least expect it” or “Don’t go looking for love, let it come to you.” When I began graduate school, meeting a man, dating, and marriage where not what I was expecting nor what I was searching for. The dread of working full time while putting myself through school, [...]

This is the biggest bloggity announcement I have made in a long time! After 7 years and over 1,400 posts I have never once had a guest blogger. All of that is about to change starting this week as we begin the series "How We Met". Each day this week a different couple will be contributing their own love story, and I hand [...]