Love Is In The Air

There is nothing better than family. I love my family and I know that they love me. My family makes me happy, and what better way to increase that happiness than to add to the family?

SURPRISE!

I'm getting a new brother!! And no, my parents aren't exploring their philanthropic side and adopting a poor baby from Africa... my sister is getting married! My beautiful sister, Elissa Marie Stapley, is engaged. And to her first kiss, too! He is from our home ward so they have known each other for almost 20 years. They liked one another in eighth grade and he kissed her, it was her fist kiss. Now she has dated many, many other people since then, but has always gone back to Trevor. He never dumped her once, never said "no," she was always the one to end things throughout grade school. Finally he went on a mission, but when he came back he dated someone else and almost proposed to her. When I asked him about a year ago why he and his almost-fiancee had broken up, he told me he prayed about it and felt it wasn't right. Thankfully he had faith and trust in God and followed that prompting. Now, a year later, he and my sister are planning their December wedding.

When he proposed he told her, "Elissa, I want to be your first and your last kiss... please marry me." Doesn't that just melt your heart?! Her eighth grade journal is full of middle school girl fantasies about her future husband: what will he be like, who is it, what is he doing right this second? It is also covered in phrases such as, "I love Trevor Bruce," and, "I want to marry Trevor Bruce." All I can say is that their love is meant to be. A predestined partnership, her soul-mate. They are completely enraptured with one another and every time I see them it strengthens my yearning for marriage just a bit more. Uh-oh... I'm a freshman. I'm not getting married ANYTIME soon! No matter what my friends keep telling me...