TheRoupeScoop: My Boo! The one and only (well, not technically the only) Mrs. Roupe...

Rach is truly an amazing woman and I am blessed to have her as my wife and as my best friend. She loves to laugh (I love her laugh), loves spending time with family and friends, enjoys wine tasting, walking our dog, reading, trying new restaurants, traveling, EXTRA HOT coffee's, pasta, fine cheeses (Humboldt Fog and Delice de Burgeone), wakeboarding, snow skiing, playing all sorts of sports (she has a cannon for an arm), our Saturday morning walks, and takes tremendous pride in her work.

We met almost 9 years ago, which is totally crazy to both of us, and have been married 4.5 years (also nuttier than a squirrel's turd). Everyday gets better as we continue to learn more about each other...i.e...I squeeze from the bottom of the tube, she squeezes from wherever, I pick up my stuff when I am ready, she picks it up yesterday... We have a small little family consisting of a miniature pinscher-Chihuahua mix named Hawk and a bengal cat named Blitz (I will get to both of them later). And, yes, both of them are named for the Seahawks, OUR favorite team. But, NO, our kids will not be named "Field Goal", "Red Zone", or "Illegal Contact". We haven't ruled out "Pass Interference" though, aka P.I. Roupe, in which case he would be destined to be a rapper.

Anyways, we met at Western Washington University, seen here:

WWU - Viking Union

Old Main

We met at Summerstart, the orientation incoming freshman attend in early August to get a feel for campus and sign up for classes. After some awkward 18 year old flirting (and her telling me she came all the way from Cali to play softball, which I laughed at...who goes to WWU from Cali? Also, YOU PLAY SOFTBALL? Yeah, and I turned down M.I.T. for WWU), some AIM screen names were exchanged and we started chatting on the phone and via IM (was really cool back then) until school started. Not wanting to waste any time, we were together as a couple about 2 days after school started and have been ever since! Neither of us were looking for a significant other at the time and would have thought you were crazy if you said we would have dated the same person all throughout college. Well, I guess good things come unexpectedly, because we have been together ever since with no breaks at all.

M'lady Having some fun back in the day!!

So, we dated for 4 years, got married September 25, 2004 at Newcastle Golf Club, just east of Seattle and bought a little townhome in the Issaquah Highlands while I worked Pharmaceutical sales and Rach worked for Quadrant Homes. Then we got an opportunity to start a new homebuilding company in California, moved down there, decided that wasn't for us and after a year and a half headed back to the great NW. After living in a farm town, we decided that we wanted to see some people, make that lots of people, and bought a condo on Upper Queen Anne just 2 minutes from downtown Seattle. On a side note, we have greatly reduced our carbon footprint by being able to walk to shops, work, and bars! We still work for Envision Homes, Rach does all the sales work, I am in charge of New Business Development, and in these lean times, the marketing as well. So tell everyone to go buy an Envision Home, like RIGHT NOW! So, in a nutshell, that is the brief history of how we came to be the Roupe's! There will be many more stories detailing our adventures along the way and our crazy crew.