home sweet forney!

So, we made our first trip home this last weekend since me and Brody moved down. I have missed it soo much! We spent Friday night at Sergio's moms for dinner and had my first ever fish tacos! SOOO AMAZING! We had a good night spending time with his mom and little brother! Saturday we spent the day with Sergio's dad, stepmom, little brother and sister, older sister and our niece. It was a good day seeing Brody play with all the kids and catching up with Sergio's family. That night Sergio went to the Ranger's game with Dylan while I spent the night hanging out with my family and two bestfriends! Oh, how I've missed them all so! We went to dinner at Mi Cocina and then had some Bahama Bucks for desert!     When we got home we just sat around with Brody and caught up on the past month and half. I love the fact that no matter how far we are separated nothing will ever change between us! On Sunday, we went to church with my family and had lunch at Razoos. When we got home my sister and her boyfriend came over and we all sat around the living room looking at old photo albums and reminiscing about old times! I love moments like that! Of course as soon as I got in the car I had my breakdown of tears and sadness of having to leave so far away and not see my family and friends for awhile but it's all a part of growing up, but it's definitely still hard living four hours away! We got back last night and I must say it feels good to have my own apartment to come home to with my two boys! If only the rest of the ones I loved lived just a little closer! But, it makes all the reunions that much sweeter! :)

fourth of july weekend!

Sooo Brody went to visit his honey and grandpa for the weekend, so me and Sergio had the weekend to ourselves! It was nice to sleep in and spend some quality time just me and him since we haven't since the day before Brody was born. So we spent our weekend going to see two movies, ride go carts and playing scrabble and ps3. But I really missed my little boy! It's soo crazy to me to think that a year ago I couldn't see life with a kid but now my whole world doesn't feel complete without him around! I felt like that crazy mom who calls and texts about 100 times a day and I'm not ashamed to say IM PROUD OF IT! :)

We spent today just being lazy and watching TV as a family (yes Brody watched too!) and right now as Sergio is playing COD and Brody is jumping in his jumper, I couldn't be happier! Two see both of the boys who have my heart playing in front of me is the best feeling in the world!
My husband who taught me the meaning of this holiday! So many years I saw Independence Day as a day to watch fireworks and hangout but now I see the true meaning of it! To see my husband survive stepping on a land mine, that had plenty of explosives on it to do much worse than it did, and luckily did not go off and come home safely to me, I thank God that He was there with him that day! It kills me when Sergio talks about the possibility of not getting to run with Brody one day or not returning to the job he loves soo much! It's because of men and women like my husband that we are able to have the freedom we continue to have today! I love you more than you know Sergio and am so proud of you!

And the other greatest thing is my Brodyboy! The biggest blessing in the world! I thank God everyday for this little boy, the boy who showed me what happiness truly is! The boy that showed me a tiny smile can melt my heart faster than anything else! The sweetest laugh I've ever heard comes from a 20 pound little boy! I love seeing him grow and learning something new every single day! It's crazy to me that next month he will be six months old!!!! Soon he will be crawling and getting into EVERYTHING, holding his own bottle (hopefulllyyy! lol) and in just a few more months learning to walk and saying ma ma!

God blessed me this past year with not only Sergio and Brody but Godly parents that have stood behind me 100% in absolutely everything!!!! Who love my son and spoil him every chance they get! My relationship with my mom is more of a bestfriend now, of course we still have that mother daughter thing but I love that she is also my friend now! Three amazing sisters who love me and accept me for exactly who I am! And of course two of the bestfriends I could ever ask for, who treat my son like he really is their blood nephew and have never left my side not once! One who got to see my son being born and cried right along with me when we saw him and heard him first cry! And both of them who continue to keep me sane!

BASICALLY, I LOVE MY LIFE! <3

happy fourth everyone! :)

Our First Year

Ive decided the best thing to do is go back to a year ago and fill you all in on how we got to where we are now. Ill go ahead and warn you now that this is probably going to be the longest blog Ill ever post but I wanted to get all of this out because I think its important to know how we got where we are now! Sergio and I have been together for almost four years now. Last February he joined the army while I went to school at Dallas Baptist. I went to visit him for family day and graduation in Ft. Benning, Georgia. After he graduated he attended airborne school for the next month and then came home on June 26th for his ten day leave. On that day I also found out I was pregnant. I called him and told him as he was boarding his plane! I cant keep anything in me too long or Ill go crazy so I had to get it out as soon as I found out. We had no idea what we were going to do since Sergio was leaving in ten days to be stationed in Ft. Carson, Colorado and about a month later would be deployed to Afghanistan. So we decided to get married, neither of us could see ourselves marrying anybody else in the world so I flew down to Ft. Carson at the end of July. We were married on July 22, 2010! Itll be a day Ill never forget!!! After we were married I stayed in Ft. Carson for about a week and I wish it would of been longer! That was the worst goodbye I have ever had to do, knowing it would be my last time to see Sergio for about eight months until he would have leave to come home and also knowing I would be going through a whole pregnancy without him there to experience it with me! So I flew back home and about a month later had my first doctors appointment. Me and my mom went to the doctor and got to see our baby for the first time! If you know me well, you know that I have ALWAYS wanted a little girl, a little mini me. So when the sonogram technician asked if I really wanted to know what the gender was I knew exactly what that meant... IT WAS A BOY! At that point I couldnt even imagine myself with a little boy! Sergio called a couple of days later and I got to share with him the news, he was so excited to have a boy! We ended up both agreeing on the name Brody, it just fit! As the next couple of months went by it was hard to not know where exactly Sergio was or what he was doing, but the early morning phone calls and random skype calls made my heart jump like I cant even explain! You dont know how much someone means to you until you dont know when or if you are going to hear from them again! Now Ill jump forward to October. I remember sitting at a restaurant with my mom one day and breaking down because I hadnt heard from Sergio in about a week and it wasnt normal to not hear from him without knowing in advance since he usually knew when his missions were and for how long he would be gone and this time I hadnt heard anything from him. I just had a bad feeling and made myself push the thought out of my head. Finally I got a phone call a few days later from a different number than what I was used to when he would call but I knew that any strange number had to be from him so I was soo excited to finally see my phone ring with him on the other end of it. When I answered I didnt get the usual happy voice that I was used to.. Sergio then informed me that he had been in an accident and was in the hospital. He had stepped on a landmine and his right foot was really messed up. At first I told him he was lying because I just couldnt wrap my mind around the thought that all the feelings I had been having the past week or so were for a reason! I believe God had prepared me for this call because I had been preparing myself for the worst! Anyways, my heart sank and as much as I was upset that this had happened, I was happy he was alive and was coming home to me! A couple days later when Sergio told me that he was making his way back to the states and would be here in just a few days I was ecstatic! The day he was SUPPOSE to arrive I packed my bags and headed towards San Antonio. Luckily Dallas is only four hours away! About three and a half hours into the drive Sergio called and told me that something was wrong with their plane and he wasn't leaving that day. As soon as I got off the phone I just started crying from all the emotions! I got a hotel and checked in for a few hours until his dad called to tell me that I could stay at Sergio's memaw's house about thirty minutes away in New Braunfels so that I wouldnt have to stay by myself. It turned out that sergio didnt get there until two days later!!!! I got to experience first hand the army's "HURRY UP AND WAIT!" Finally Sergio arrived to BAMC on October 21st and of course we were already there waiting for him to arrive! It wasnt the homecoming I had envisioned months before but it was even better! To get to hug my soldier who was lucky to even be alive was an amazing feeling! His foot looked horrible with an external fixator on it. It literally looked like a Halloween decoration you use to scare people! I then checked into the Poweless Guest House which is like a hotel for military family members to stay for free while their soldier is at BAMC. Sergio spent two months in the hospital and then joined me at the Poweless. We went home for a month around Christmas time and spent time with family and friends before Sergio had to head back to San Antonio. I stayed in Dallas because December 31st was my last day to travel more than a 100 miles just in case the baby decided to come early! I stayed with my parents and got to develop the best relationship with my parents that I could of ever imagined! Sergio came home on February 13th since I would be induced the next day! We celebrated Valentines by going to eat at Mi Cocina then he surprised me with going on a horse carriage ride, which was special for us because a year or so before we were in downtown Dallas when a man asked us if we wanted to go on a carriage ride but we were so broke that the $40 ride was too much! We always laughed at our reaction to the man when he told us how much it was! So it was only appropriate that Sergio surprised me with something he knew I wanted to do but couldnt before. It was beautiful! But even more beautiful was the ring Sergio gave me that night. Since we got married so fast with no preparation in advance we both just got plain silver rings and so he had bought me my diamond ring!  The next day, February 14th- Valentines day!, we went in around 7 in the morning to be induced! Of course I didnt follow the rules and ate on the way to the hospital sooo we had to wait around until 2 before they could start anything! Finally they started the Pitocin but my body was used to having contractions since I had been contracting on and off for 6 weeks before! We asked the nurse what dosage they usually turned the pitocin up to before labor really got going and she told us it was rare to get to 20... I got to 24 and still didnt feel them! Oh, also I went in being dilated to about a 3 and fully effaced! The doctor broke my water and three hours later I was ready to push! Finally Brody was here!!!! I cried the moment I saw him and they laid him on my chest! I have never felt that amount of love before! He was perfect! He weighed 8 lbs and 1 oz. and was 20 1/2 inches long! We brought Brody home two days later and began our new life with him! For the first two months it was very difficult and emotionally draining seeing Brody hurt with his constipation problems. He is such a good baby and we get compliments everywhere we go on how cute and chunky he is! Everyday we experience something new with him and everyday I fall a little more in love with him! Brody and I moved down to San Antonio at the beginning of June. It was sooo hard to leave my parents and best friends. It wasnt only me that was leaving it was Brody too and it hurt soo much to see their hearts breaking when we were leaving! We have our own apartment off base about 20 minutes from post! I love this new adventure in my life and wouldnt have it any other way (well maybe a little closer to home!) Sergio has had 2 more surgeries recently, one in may and one just 2 weeks ago. The road to recovery is long and were not sure how long we will be in San Antonio or what the next step in Sergio's career is, but were leaving it all in God's hands and know that everything will work out perfectly how its suppose to!

Sorry this was sooo long!
I'm going to try to post daily if not every other day! Hope you enjoy! :)



"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to give you a HOPE and a FUTURE!" --Jeremiah 29:11 <3