About Us :)

Keia's version: Michael and I met in June of 2007 at a YSA dance. He was dating someone else. Come July, he was no longer dating her, and making some serious advances in my direction. Sensing his cowardice, I worked up the courage and asked him out. Our first date was to Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix followed by some intense Wii sports competitions. He claims he won, but we all know I kicked his trash. Needless to say, I dazzled him with my charm and he couldn't resist a second date, and then a third, and so on. Michael was my first, and VERY awkward kiss - and a very good teacher. At the end of the summer, I was headed back to America and we ended our summer fling - much to my displeasure. He, however, managed to move on just fine! For almost exactly a year, we were barely in contact - only emailing every few months, but early August of '08, he confessed that he couldn't sleep because he could not stop thinking about me and he still had feelings for me. I admitted that I hadn't gotten over him either, and we decided to give it a try long distance! In September he came to Georgia for three weeks to spend a little time with me. We took a trip to Disney World - his very first time - and fell in love!




Michael proposed, completely unexpectedly(well, mostly), on October 8th - two days before he went back home to England. It was VERY romantic, and I cried - of course!



Michael's version:
It started as Keia said at a YSA dance, and as anyone will know I am an awesome dancer, and I'm pretty sure I had her at '2 step's, then hip swing' - I could see it in her eyes, she dug me. But that's neither here nor there. Keia says at the time I was dating someone else but I have no idea who that was, so I'm gonna take her word on that. Apparently come July I was single, I do remember seeing Keia about and making a point of working my 'moves' on her. Now the bare faced lie she calls cowardice I call weighing up my options - didn't wanna commit myself too soon, guys will know what I'm talking about. Well, maybe just Andrew.
It is true she asked me out first only because, well, she asked me first. I was on it, after all I am from a 'slow country'.... you can stop laughing now Sara;)
The date was, well,to be honest I have no recollection of the date, but it must have been great because I came back for dessert. The second date was interesting. I tried to teach Keia how to bend it like Beckham... i guess some people are just unteachable;)
The mighty third date we made out which was hilarious as it was Keia's first time, but eventually we got there and it rocked my socks.
Keia mentioned something about her dazzling charm. The only thing that dazzled me was her ability to suck at wii;)(for the older generation its a computer game and not what you do in the toilet).
At the end of the summer I brutally ended our relationship, and to this day I can still hear Keia singing 'summer lovin' happened so fast'.
The relationship ended and she went home. In her version she still sounds bitter about me moving on just fine - that's because it's still fresh in her mind as I only told her a few days ago how soon I moved on(men are pigs!!!).
So for about a year as Keia said we barely stayed in contact. I was rebuked by Keia via e-mail for letting this happen, to which she swears she was 'joking', but we all know how vicious she can be.
Anywho, I digress. Where was I... she left, I moved on, a year passed and i can't sleep - oh yeah about that...the reason i couldn't sleep was Arsenal were having a bit of a slump in the premier league - that coupled with gas... well you can imagine.
Again I digress, I am a useless blogger... yes, Keia then told me that she had never really gotten over me and well just some really sweet things, bless her.
We gave long distance a try and after some extremely large phone bills I robbed a bank and took a trip to the states, with no idea of proposing against extremely popular belief. I came just to test the waters, see what these feeling I had were as the closest thing I felt to love was eating my first Wendy's in 2001.
We took an awesome trip to Disney which is were I fell head over heels in love with the woman of my dreams, Minnie Mouse, but she was taken(stupid Mickey) so i fell in love with my eternal companion, my friend, my wife. Who i love more with every passing day, but don't tell her that;)



Over a thousand dollars in plane tickets, a Christmas in England, and LOTS of hassle with the Dunstable/Luton registrars offices, we were married on February 28th, 2009. We had a civil ceremony in the Luton chapel of the LDS church, and were then sealed in the London Temple for time and eternity.







We honeymooned in Italy, and I very nearly stayed behind with my gladiator lover... We had a great time and saw some really amazing sights in Venice and Rome. You can see the majority of our pics on my Facebook page. We are now back to reality and living in my parents basement (cheap rent). I am trying to find some full time work to pay the bills until Michael can get his work authorization. We are struggling to understand the immigration process and hoping that we get all the paperwork right! It will be a glorious day when all of his approvals come through! We hope that you'll join us as we try to make a start for ourselves!