The story of us...

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I thought it would be appropriate on Valentine's Day to share the story of Sean and I and how we met and hope you feel the love on this day. Tomorrow I will be sharing what I did for Sean for today! I am also linking up to share this story over at Blonde Episodes.

Back in June 2008, I decided to check out a new church that had a young adults group that was for people specifically out of college. Not a lot of churches had such a group but once I heard, I knew I would make the commitment to go to make friends Being a bit shy, I prayed that God would have some people prior to the service ask me to sit with them. So I went that Tuesday and was standing outside the room where the service was held and was talking to this girl, Nicole, and at the end of the conversation, she asked me to sit with her and her friends, answered prayer! During the service, another guy named Sean joined the rest of the people I was sitting with After the service, we all hung around talking and then I departed to go home.

 The rest of the summer I continued to go to the Tuesday night service but I sat with different friends. In September, Sean and I saw each other in passing on a Sunday and I remembered there was a guy in the group named Sean but I didn't think that was him. I went home that day and Facebook-stalked him. Hey a girl has to do what a girl has to do. I found him pretty easily because he went to Azusa Pacific University too, where I graduated. Just in case, he was curious, I had a back story of a mutual friend I found him through, we did have several mutual friends on Facebook but the truth is I straight up did a name search for him.

We started chatting on Facebook and after several conversation, I asked him out for a cup of coffee. We met up at 7:30pm on a Wednesday and before I knew it, the employees were coming over to tell us the shop was closing, it was 10pm. Well the next night, I had another date planned and later come to find out Sean did as well. We met up for a movie two days after we met for coffee and continued to meet up after that! The thing I liked most about Sean was he didn't play games, he would ask me out and stick to the date. He wasn't flakey and he was consistent in hanging out and 10 months later, he proposed!

Here is our first photo together, at a wedding he invited me to one month after dating.

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We both went to APU, I graduated in 2006, he graduated in 2008 although we are the same age. He ran in college, was a applied science major and I was a political science major.

We have a lot of fun together, just have a look!

And just for some more grins and giggles.

Hope you enjoyed our story! Happy Valentine's Day friends!!

p.s. for some of my newest followers, you might not know that I spent all four years of high school in Japan because my dad was in the Air Force, as well as I was born in Okinawa. One aspect of my blog I want to concentrate more on is sharing more of the Japanese culture and some traditions. Since today is Valentine's Day, I will explain how the Japanese celebrate Valentine's Day. Today only the girls give chocolates or other gifts to the guy in their life, just the girls.  Then in one month, on March 14, what is called White Day then the boys return the favor to that special girl who gave them chocolates on Valentines' Day.

As more holidays and other significant days in Japan pop up, I will be sharing them with you all. Hope you will enjoy this and get to learn a bit more about the Japanese culture.