The Beginning Part II

Finally, 5 months into the making and I'm ready to start the second part of "The Beginning". To read how we first met you'll have to read "The Beginning Part I" .

This time a year is very special to me. About two weeks ago 6 years ago I meet my future husband. We didn't go on a first date until mid March after my birthday and for me every beginning of every year I reminist on the past with the events happening. Sometimes I wonder if I was not there, in that cafeteria at that time that exact date would FI and I had ever met? We did go almost 6 years living minutes away from each other, going to the same school, knowing the same people and we never noticed each other. I believe that everything happens for a reason and at that point in my life and with all the drama I was going through he was just what the doctor had ordered ;). God couldn't have sent him at a better time in my life.

After our first few dates we became inseparable. We saw each other every weekend and every day at school. We ended up going to Prom together, going to family functions, and he took me on vacation with his dad and brother. Although it had only been a few months that we'd known each other I felt as if I knew him since ever. He had every quality I was looking for and was such a gentleman, he definitly swept me off my feet :)

The summer of 2005 was the best summer I had ever had. It was so sad to think that at the beginning of fall we would be going our separate ways to pursue our individual careers. I had gotten so attached to him that couldn't see a happy future without him. He was my soulmate, God knew exactly what he was doing when he created us.

We decided to stay in our relationship while I was attending a local college and he was taking truck driving classes. As we entered into fall I had a minor surgery scheduled for late September. He was with me every step of the way and I was so grateful for that. In early November we found out that I was expecting, 5 weeks pregnant to be exact. My heart dropped. How was I going to tell my mother? What would his family think? We haven't even been together 1 year. What was he going to think? Millions of questions were racing through my head.

When I told him he was in shock. He didn't know if to be happy or upset. First thing he did was call his sister. Of that conversation I really have nothing to say because I wasn't there, for all I know she was cursing the day I was born lol who knows. However, I can tell you that later that night he came over after work we had a long talk and decided to let things go how they are meant to go. About two months later I moved in with him to his father's house and three months after that we moved in to our first apartment.

June came so fast and left soooo sloooww. I was due July 1st but from June 1st till the 30th it had felt like a year had gone by. I felt huge, it was so hot, I was moody and uncomfortable ugh! All I kept thinking is when is this baby going to come out. The doctors kept saying I could give birth any day after 38 weeks but our son had other plans lol. He wanted to come out on his due date, he wanted to treasure and enjoy every momemt inside my womb, at least that's what I say to myself lol. So indeed he was born July 1st (that's another story) and that's when FI and myself became parents. We can't see our life without our little man, he has made it much more amazing.

I never thought that I would have a blog, that I would write personal stories or better yet this story. I always felt that the story of "our beginning" wasn't that fascinating not to mention that I'm always thinking and worrying about what others would say. But as I read more blogs, meet more people, and get older I'm starting to care less what others think. This is my life and I wouldn't change a second of it. Everyone is welcome to follow me and those who don't, well is ok because I'll never know.

Below are some really bad quality pictues of FI and myself. Enjoy!

Our first trip together to Ocean City, MD. (June/July 2005)

This one was in Wildwood, NJ. (August 2005)
Here we are in Wildwood again. Wow look how young our faces look...

jajaja I love this one. This one is in Virginia Beach (April 2006) and can you notice what's under the fans :) yup! is my 7 months old belly :) lol
Awwww... our babyshower in May 2006
Pregnancy portraits in 2006
Most recent one. This was on Thanksgiving weekend 2010.

I hope you have enjoyed reading a little about our story with many more to come.








Good Night!

I found the perfect Shoes!

If you remember back in October I blogged about wearing color under my dress. I also blogged about being frustrated because I couldn't find shoes to go with my dress.

Is funny, because on my frustration post I said "what if I buy a pair now and then later around February I find another pair that I love even more". And what may you think happened on February? Today to be exact.

Yes, I found the perfect shoes. The one I've been dreaming about for months. The one that kept me up at night and kept me unfocused at work.

These babies are just how I imagined that my shoes would be, not a thing less and not a thing more. Not only did I find the cutest shoes ever, I also found a matching purse. I wanted them in blue (inspiration coming from a special knottie SimplyMistaken. Thank you girl!) and I wanted them to be sexy.

Ladies and Knotties (and gentleman if there are any that read this blog) I now present you the other love of my life.

(Don't mind the picture, I took them with my cell)

Was I right or was I right? Aren't they just F.A.B.U.L.O.U.S.!

***Sigh**** I'm in love all over again.

I did good! I'm glad I waited. Now I will have an awesome weekend =)

Happy Friday!

4 Months To Go!

Just 4 more months to go till the big day.

This is getting surreal. What happened with 11, 8, and 7 months. I feel so behind with my to do list. If I don't get caught up by March I'll be going into "Freak-Out-Mode" ooh oh, no good.

Bring it on March! I'm all ready for you (I think... gulp).

Our flights are booked!!!!!!

Yippeeeeee!

Things are finally moving along when it comes to travel details.
I just purchased our flight tickets to DR and best part of it all is that we decided to extend our trip by leaving the 18th instead of the 21st. That's exactly what I wanted all along and I finally convinced FI. I wanted to stay longer and spend some time with my paternal side of the family. Recently we've gotten closer, is been through Facebook but it still counts :).

So I got the best of both worlds, a longer vacation and a cheaper flight due to us traveling through a different airport. Yaayyy!

One of my BMs also booked her airfare. I think she's more excited than me lol.

Another check down, yayyy for checks =)

A Sand Ceremony? Really?

Another check! Yaaayyy.
I'm starting to really like these kind of posts :)

After joining The Knot I discovered that there are other options besides the traditional candle ceremony. The sand ceremony grabbed my attention the most and went perfect with our wedding theme. Beach wedding, sand ceremony, beach wedding, sand ceremony... Helloooo Pam! lol

So about 2 weeks ago I ordered the ceremony set below from Amazon.com. I've wanted this set from the very moment I saw it. I just knew I had to have it. Last week I received it and is everything I expected. Even FI said "Wow Pam this is really nice" :). He made my evening! (I love when he notices the little details).

Now come decisions, decisions. Should I have it monogrammed/ingraved? Or leave it as it is? I think monogramming it will make it extra special, don't you?

Isn't it gorgeous? This pictures are all from Google, I was feeling lazy and didn't want to take my own pictures and upload it.

The plan is to have our son use the smaller pouring vase to pour the foundation sand and then we would take turns pouring our sand and finally we would pour them together.

Have a fun and safe weekend!

Happy Valentine's Day!

I love V~Day! Is around the time that FI and I met for the first time 6 years ago.

Happy Valentine's Day from the future Mr. & Mrs. :)

Look for "The Beginning Part II" in the coming weeks!

Guest Book #2... Undecided

I recently purchased a treasure chest from a knottie to use as our postcard guestbook for our AHR. Inspiration below.

I had my mom bring me postcards from her trip to Dominican Republic this past January. She brought me about 50. My plan was to set up a table at our reception back home after our wedding and have our guests sign a postcard and put them inside the chest. Afterwards, I was going to make an album where you are able to see the front and back of the post card.

However, the more I think about it the more I become undecided on whether to use this idea for our destination wedding and use the guestbook that another knottie made for us with our engagement photos instead.

I'm thinking it makes more sense to have the postcard set up in Punta Cana, have our guests fill them out, and then mail them to ourselves from DR so that it can be more special instead of just collecting them from the chest and that's it. Then I'll just have the other guestbook set up on a table at our AHR and have our guests sign it. Besides, if we were to use the postcard idea at our AHR we would need about 200 postcard and maybe even more whereas if we use this idea in PC we would probably just need 75 or so which equals less pages for the guestbook.

Yea, that makes sense. I think that's what we will do. That will also add to the history of the chest. That chest was used by two other knotties, one who got married in Jamaica and the other in Mexico. Is only fair that the chest also travels to Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico (another knottie getting marry in PR asked if she can buy the chest from me).

How exciting!!!!!!!!


Here are pictures of the postcards my mom brought me and the chest I bought.

Is funny because we haven't even booked the venue for our AHR and here I am working from the inside out, deciding on decorations and the set up without knowing how the venue will look. Jajaja!

Happy Friday!

I Got Robbed!

Yes you read the title of this post right. I got robbed and so did FI.

Sunday the 30th we got up and got ready to go to church at 1pm. After church we went to a friend's house to hang out and cook, we usually do this 2 times a week. When we got home I started to wash clothes and clean. At some point after getting home FI went to the room and was changing his clothes, etc. Then he tells me that his white gold chain and white gold diamond ring are missing. We looked everywhere and couldn't find them. I wasn't too worry I just thought that he had misplaced them and soon he would remember where he had put it. He insisted that someone took it because he was 100% sure he had left it on that spot.

The next day he noticed that that matching bracelet for the chain was gone as well, so he started looking for all his jewelry and yes just as he had suspected his bracelet was gone along with diamond studs I had gotten him for his birthday a few years ago. He was so mad, fire was coming out of his ears.

Later that day his mom found out that whoever did it got in through the window in our living room, there were foot prints on the window panel because it was muddy outside from all the snow and since I had mopped the night before there was nothing on the floor :(. We had thought that someone had gotten keys somehow because nothing was broken and we had left the door to go up to the second floor (his mom side of the house, we rent the bottom from her) unlock and when we got back it was locked. So that means whoever broke in got scared or better yet took precaution and locked the door in case someone got home while he/she was still there.

This past Monday I had a friend over and I was showing her all the wedding items I had recently bought. I gave her a bag with my jewelry inside and she says "I love this necklace, this is so pretty" and then she says "Where's the box for the earrings?" I say "What do you mean is right there, you're holding it." She says "Look there's nothing inside." My heart dropped to the floor and I started to panic. I went to look where I had it and no earring box. I wanted to cry. How was I going to tell my mother? Why would someone steal from us? We have never hurt anyone, we have no enemies! Worse part is that whoever did it is someone close to us. And its scary too because that thief is among us and we don't know who it is. I feel like I can't trust anyone. This really hurts me.

I noticed my earrings were missing a week after and that makes me wonder what else did that person take that we are not noticing. The strange thing is that I don't understand why they only took certain things. I had my necklace, earrings, and brand new camara FI got me for christmas in the same place together but they only took the earrings. Also why didn't they take our laptops or all the jewelry they saw, TVs, or any of the other valuable things we have? Is like if they didn't want to make it that obvious that someone had been in our house and stole from us.

Not only did they steal the earrings but they also took the receipt for the care plan my mom got for the earring for 3 years. So that makes me think that that person is a male and they'll be giving those earrings to their partner for Valentine's Day :'''(

Below are the earrings that my mom bought for me and that I was going to use on my wedding day. :(

Cake Topper

The first time I saw this cake topper I knew this one was the one I wanted. Almost 2 years into the planning and I got it!

I ordered it from Amazon last week and I got it yesterday. Yaayyyy how exciting!

FI saw it when he got home from work and said "ohh this is cute, is it ours?" And I said "yeah!" and he says "I told you to get the one where the guy looks like he's running away". He's such a joker. Sometimes I just want to... ugh!

So yes this is our cake topper. And it looks sooo cute in person. I can't wait to see it on top of our cake =).

I have a confession

If you remember, a few weeks ago I posted about needing motivation to workout and get in great shape before the wedding. Well that same week I started having health issues that prevented me from doing certain things such as running, hopping, jumping, and so on until I got in to go see my doctor. That meant that I couldn't do no exercise at all. That got me a little upset because I was really looking forward to it.

Anyways, by the time I saw my doctor, got scheduled for some tests, and got the results back almost two weeks had passed by and I had not even started day one of my "21 day routine". Finally things got sorted out and I had to make some decisions concerning my health that would allow me to keep going with my future plans.

I decided to start my routine again on 2/1 but that didn't happen and unfortunately I have no excuse for not starting it. All I can say is that I've been feeling a little lazy. I'm not a morning person, so for me to get up at 5am to run on the treadmill or sit in front of my tv half asleep to do some workout video umm yea that don't go too well with me. Then at night time I get caught up cooking, baking, cleaning and before I know it everyone is sleeping and it rubs on me and I get sleepy and there goes working out.

One thing I can say that I'm proud of and that I've done is watching what I eat and I've been portioning my meals. That's a big one for me because like I said before I just loooooveee food! I've been baking and cooking a lot more this past weeks but it' been healthier meals an when I bake I usually bake for fun. Like last night I baked 3 dozen of peanut butter cookies and three dozens of chocolate chips cookies and a batch of brownies and can you believe I only ate half a brownie :) I'm so proud of myself!

Tonight after school I intend to go straight home and do an hour of exercise. Will I do it for real? Who knows. Will I try really hard not to get caught up in other things and get sleepy? I will do my very best.

So again, please think of me and send me some working out vibes.

Happy Thursday!