We first met at a church function, we were both serving in the children's ministry, and
we were introduced to each other, but there was really no chemistry there, and we both
kind of just, you know, moved on, and we met about three years later here at a friend John
and Michelle's house. I was in town, and I stopped. I was on a blind date with someone else. Jumping
ahead, babe. He told me, hey, nothing, why don't you come on over to the house, and I came over
to find that there were other people here, and Emily was one of them, and she was actually on a
blind date with another person that mutual friends were trying to set them up together,
and actually my first impression was that, you know, these were all couples that I was walking
into, but they weren't, and I was just being real friendly, and I thought, you know, I thought right
away, I thought, wow, she's very pretty, you know, good job for whoever that guy is, you know. The
date wasn't going so well. No, it wasn't. Come to find out later, and her friend Hilary had told
me a little bit later, hey, you know, Emily's a single girl, and with that, I asked Hilary some
more questions, and asked her about Emily, and she had some real good things, some real nice things
to say about Emily, and I felt like I should give this girl a call, so I did that week. So the very
next week we all were here again, same place, same people, minus the bad date, and Nicky was here
instead, so. I remember Emily showed up, we started talking, we went and sat by the bonfire,
and pretty much we didn't talk to anyone else the whole night, we pretty much started just talking
about anything and everything, and it was one of those days, one of those nights, I just felt like
this is going to be something, I don't know what, but I just know this is significant. We hung out,
and we hung out the majority of the night, just us, and went out to her car after, and told her,
hey, I would love to see you again, and she told me she would love that. And you called me the next
day. And I called her the next day, and any time after that we had a chance, we had a very busy
schedule at the time, but we made a point to get together and hang out, and we've been hanging out
ever since. This is a good story, but Nicky proposed, actually at the time he had just gotten hired
at the fire department, and he had a very busy work schedule, he had just finished academy,
and it was just so difficult, we were living, he was living in Hollywood, and I was still living in
Yorba Linda, it was a very difficult season of our relationship, just the distance, but we made it
through, and it definitely made our relationship stronger, but there was just a lot going on,
and on his plate as far as his career, and so I wasn't even thinking that he would be proposing
anytime soon, and I was just very focused on just what was new for him, and the new challenges that
he had ahead of his career, and I just, I wanted to throw him a party for all the hard work that he
had done, and he had just finished academy, and it was such a good, great accomplishment, and I
really wanted to celebrate that, so I planned a big graduation party for him, just to celebrate him,
and that is actually where he planned to surprise me, and celebrate me, and propose, so it was,
I was very surprised, and in the end he jumped and said, I tricked you, I got you to plan your own
engagement party. I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to have all the friends there,
and some of the family that was real important to Emily, and I kind of clued her dad in on it,
and got him to give a little speech, and at that time he turned it over to me, and I laid it on
Emily right there in front of everyone, and she, she definitely didn't see how much he was definitely.
I was very surprised.
The thing I love about Emily is her beauty, and how striking she is to look at, and also one of
the strongest traits that Emily has that really sticks out to me is her love to care for people,
she cared for me, and to find ways to care for other people, it's something that I noticed about
her, that she not only does, but she loves to do it, and that's just the way that her heart is wired,
is she loves to help people, and she does it through planning parties for people, she does it
through just picking things up at the store, cooking, she loves to cook, it's another good thing,
and she's very good at doing all these things, and definitely noticed that about her, and I love
her feminine traits, her sensitive side that, you know, comes across as very feminine to me,
and it's very attractive.
There are so many things that I love about Mickey, but I would say that I just, I really love his
faith, and I love just how important that is in his life, and how he just, that's just always
something that is there, and it's a foundation for everything, and I really love that he's such a
dreamer, and I just, I love pursuing dreams with him, and I'm excited to do that for a lifetime,
and I love how manly he is, and of course how good-looking he is, but I love the way we work
together as a team, and like he said before, where I'm strong, he's weak, and where he's strong,
I'm weak, so I just, I think we're the perfect fit for each other, but I think what I love most is
just that you love me, and that you love spending time with me, and I love you.
