-Fall Equinox of 2021, September 24 2021 - Chris had me over at his place for dinner. Right on the steps of his delapitating deck in the back yard, while we were cozied up under the stars, no one around...He turned to me and stopped dead center in the thoughts we were sharing back and forth...looks at me and says, "I am serious Kelsey... I want to spend my life with you, I want to have THIS with you for the rest of our lives I want to build a life together... will you marry me ?" I remember being so in shock and also so HAPPY that everything else is blacked out- I know I started crying when it hit me that this was a real life-changing moment, and I said "YES, I want to spend my life with you too, Chris! I love you so much!" - que tears from everyone reading this. We kissed and held each other; it was truly the best night ever. My heart was pumping with glee, and my smile was ear to ear for the next week or month even... lol. It was just so perfect and so us. Nothing fancy, no one around, and spontaneous AF. AND I was 1 year away from graduation, so we didn't even touch the wedding planning and it was in fact, a non-conversation in general for a year! lol... 100% just like us - AKA - crazy timing. (mostly on random Tuesdays too )- He was right beside me through earning my degree - BA in Dance from MSU Denver DEC 2022. 2023 DEATH YEAR - Along with many close love ones deaths... In the middle of the year June is when Chris last ever walked on two feet with no help. Chris has MS and it was always relapsing and remitting (not noticeable) but on June 18 2023 that changed overnight he lost his mobility in his legs and practically went paralyzed. As you can imagine, this also paralyzed US. It was what caused me to stop teaching, stop dancing stop building my business and basically stop life. Chris was bedridden and we were completely lost as to what to do…. It felt like a lifetime had passed (2 weeks of hell with his pain and suffering) when we were given tickets FREE to a Wu-Tang concert that we decided to go to together despite what chris was feeling. While the music blared, I was dancing to it and saw Chris unstable with his cane, trying to dance too. I grabbed him and held him up in my arms, and we slow danced together and cried. He said," I feel like this is my wedding night," and we both at the SAME time realized that THIS was our Date. JUNE 30TH We had to figure out his illness first, but THIS would be the day we get married! So we set a date June 30th, 2025 - 2 years from then.... The hardest years yet had begun - MonSter (MS) 2023- 2024 - I truly feel it was a blur I spiraled into network marketing as a career and lost myself completely away from DANCE, believing I couldn't pursue it right then.... Chris was in bed 80 % of the year in pain. I became suicidal around our proposal anniversary.... because I was so desperate for answers but so isolated, and no one knew... 2024 is a shift and still a blur too--- the first half - we got an MRI for Chris and finally were seeing some answers. We researched transplants and therapies with stem cells, and we came across a few options. Chris' best friend helped us create a GoFundMe when we found the treatment we really wanted and felt would be IT. Chris needed to be accepted and interviewed for it - HSCT Mexico (Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant), and he was accepted! he needed this support, so we made a rapid, spontaneous decision (on a random Tuesday again) to take out a HELOCK loan for the rest of the money and go IMMEDIATELY. —- September 24, 2024 we woke up in the clinca ruiz Mexico for Chrises HSCT treatment plan. (3 years to THE DAY of the proposal) ...to be continued