Southeastern Sweethearts

John and Charissa Jennings became Southeastern Sweethearts in 2006 when the pair connected
through mutual friends and ironically discovered they were neighbors living across
the street from each other in Tangi Lakes.  Charissa is from Baton Rouge, was a member
of Sigma Sigma Sigma Sorority and a Communications major; John is from Lafayette and
was studying pre-pharmacy at the time.  It really was love at first sight. Charissa
recounts the first time she met John, “I remember meeting him for the first time and
later telling my roommate, I could see myself marrying him.” They have been inseparable
ever since.  It was a pretty quick romance, John proposed in the spring of 2007 and
following Charissa’s graduation in the Spring of 2008, they were married – celebrating
their 14^th wedding anniversary this year! Currently they reside in Gonzales, La with their two
children, Abigail and Aiden, and 3 dogs.  John is a Captain with the Army National
Guard serving full time as Survey Team Leader with the 62^nd CST, with Charissa working in Procurement for the past 10 years.  They enjoy a busy
life of shuttling their kids around to various sporting events, all things Christmas
and taking family vacations.  In their “spare” time they volunteer with kids ministry
at Healing Place Church, teaching Sunday school to 4^th-6^th graders.  “Southeastern will always be a special place to us, not just because we
both became first generation graduates, but because it is where our crazy adventure
together began.”