Mike and Chelsi's World: January 2008

Honeymooning

Me Tarzan you Jane

Wedding Day September 8th 2007

September 8th 2007 Man! What a day! I was sleeping upstairs on an air mattress next to my buddy Sam, when Chelsi came in to tell me it was time to wake up. I had planned so much for this day and so everything was going to work out perfect. I was still really tired from the night before. I stayed up talking with Sam for quite some time and I think I had stayed up even later the night before. As we headed out the door I grabbed a small pancake to stuff in my mouth. We arrived at the temple the usher looked over our recommends and we were seated on a couch to wait. Then a lady temple worker finally came to get us and the first thing she asked was " do you have your marriage license" That will be a moment I will never forget as all the blood from my head sank to my stomach and my heart stopped beating. Right then I could picture the folder that the license was in lying on my bed. We couldn’t start without it. My first impression was to call president Ratledge. You see we live a good hour and a half away from the temple. We had to be there at 8am and everyone else at 9am and so I figured everyone was already on their way. Fortunately President Ratledge hadn’t left yet. Now we had to get him into the apartment. I didn’t have the number to the apartment complex, but Chelsi had a key ring with a heart on it that had the number. So that was like blessing number 2. We were able to get in touch with the apartment complex and they sent someone over to let President Ratledge in. He faxed over the license and headed up to the temple with it. All in all we got married about 4 or 5 hrs later. But now that left things more challenging for our photographer because he was also taking pictures for the couple getting married after us. Needless to say it all worked ou,t but I was still hoping to get out of the temple early enough so that the sun wasn’t in our eyes like it was. But that doesn’t matter. We got married and that’s what matters. By the time I finally got into the ceiling room my mind was still cluttered I still felt horrible. But when Chelsi finally entered the room in her wedding dress I was able to feel like nothing else could go wrong. We could get married now and nothing was going to stop us. Not even my feeble mind.
We had a great turn out at the reception. And of course a great evening hahaha. And the next day we headed down to Florida. We started having car trouble and so I got it into a Toyota shop and continued on our trip in a Toyota Rav 4. That was a nice ride and we got a good deal on it too. They were all out of Sadans and so we got the S.U.V. for the same price as the sadan. We stopped at sea world. That was awesome. I want to be a dolphin trainer now and I’m sure every kid that goes there does too and thanx to the military we got in free. We got to feed and touch dolphins and we touched stingrays. The rest of the week we spent in key west Florida going snorkeling, water skinning, building sand castles, feeding fries to seagulls, parasailing, going on a biplane ride around the island. and shopped. Chelsi and I agree that sea world is better. but it was a good experience and incase your wondering. The water in Florida really isn’t that clear. ~ Marriage is a better way of life:)

The Engagement June 3rd 2007

Today was one of those days you never want to forget. I woke up knowing exactly what I wanted to accomplish.. I've been dating this wonderful young lady named Chelsi. Her and I met at church.. I've known her since at least July of last year. She made some fabulous cookies and I had to show her how awesome I thought they were by eating tons of them. On April 7th we had our first kiss. It took me at least 3 hrs to do it, but I think it worked out well in the end. Then today June 3rd, I decided to take Chelsi to the singles branch in Raleigh so that she could meet some of my friends out there. Yeah Right! Thats just something you tell someone so that they can be suspicious about what your really up to. To my surprise I actually found an old friend there. A young man named Hyrum from my last area I served in had come home from his mission in Utah of all places and is now working out there. So that was exciting, but any who I suppose I was a little nervous. Chelsi kept asking me. Are you nervous about something? And I kept shrugging my shoulders and told her I'm bored. After testimony meeting I took chelsi to a park I was familure with. I wanted to take her out on a canoe and pattle over to the ducks so that we could feed them. Instead we walked down to the bridge and threw goldfish crackers from the bridge. After we ran out we started to take a walk around the lake. Mind you it was a little overcast and you could tell it was going to rain. I thought, well, we can make at least one lap around just to chat and kill some time and then it happened. Out of nowhere came this ginourmous hawk out of nowhere.. hahaha.. just kidding, but it did start to sprinkle and thunder, we kept on going. And then it down poured. so we stopped under a tree thinking it would help.. nope! so we decided we could run back to the car. Well we tried, but before we knew it we were soaked. Fortunately it was warm rain and it wasn't so bad. It seemed like one of those notebook scenes. It was great, but there will still people around and I wanted to be alone and so i pulled her aside to a spot that was on a small hill surrounded with bamboo trees and other shrubbery. It was really pretty and at this point there was a light sprinkle. I started to ask her why she thought we really came to Raleigh today and then I asked if she really wanted to know why I was so nervous all day. I think she saw it coming, but she denies it. So I pursued to get down on one knee and pulled out the ring from my pocket and said. Chelsi Lee Wilcox. Will you marry me? She gave me a big smile and said yes of course, and then gave me a big kiss. I thought it was weird she didn't grab the ring right away and put it on. I had to ask her if she was going to put it on and then I proceeded to put it on her finger. It fit perfect.

I'm going to get married. I cant wait! Chesli is a great girl. Everything I've ever wanted. Smart, funny, lovable, the works. You name it. She has it. We're going to have a lot of fun. I spend a lot of times ignoring the moments when the spirit is trying to talk to me and I end up making a lot of mistakes, but I'm glad I listened this time.