Mike: hello Melissa

Melissa: no, who is this?

...

Melissa:j/k

This was our first conversation after exchanging numbers after meeting on match.com. He thought I had given him a wrong number. I had to give him a hard time from the beginning. We talked almost every day after that first conversation.

We got to meet in person June 28th, 2020 and of course he fell in love right away. That’s not true, but we did think this was different and something special. With the world shut down we couldn’t go on traditional dates but we could go for coffee outside at the local Starbucks. We’d have 7am Friday morning coffee dates. ☕️ Our time would go by so quickly. We talked about everything and anything you could think of. We both love music and love to send songs to each other creating a great playlist 141 songs and counting. We continued to learn about each other and tried to spend as much time together as we could. When the world was trying to open back up we got to go on our first trip to Sacramento for a take out dinner from Buca Di Peppo, Drive-In movie and I talked him into trying rail bikes.

Next was telling the kids and coming up with a plan to meet them. Our plan to meet and introduce the kids didn’t go as originally planned and ended up happening sooner. All went pretty well and we had many game nights of family feud, new phone who dis, catch phrase and what do you meme. These past 3 years have been filled with many adventures. Mike and I have enjoyed concerts, hikes, comedy shows, rail bikes, road trips, plane trips and our favorite piano bar. We planned a trip to Arizona but covid had a different plan for us. Luckily, we all got to go enjoy going to the cabin, San Diego and Pismo Beach.

In the middle of all of our adventures we decided to make a BIG move. Sell both of our homes and buy a house together. October 14th, 2021 we got the keys to our home... the beginning of another new adventure. We have had a lot of fun creating a home we can all enjoy including small and big projects and have learned a lot from each other.

Mike secretly planned and asked my dad and mom and all of the kids for their blessings and with their help created an amazing proposal on February 11th, 2023. The kids helped plan getting my nails done the night before, with a hair appointment the morning of, getting the sign, candles and petals, chauffeuring us to Tresetti's for dinner and then picking us up to go have "some drinks" with Ciara's boyfriend Hudson's parents Kelly and Dolly at Blaker Brewing. They were there to have drinks and were also in on the big plan to propose. I was surprised with all the kids, grandbabies, my mom, my dad and stepmom, my cousins, my aunt (on facetime), my best friends there and in on the proposal. I could not have asked for a more special moment.

Now it is countdown to the aisle and then continuing to build a life together....

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