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