I finally pulled it off!

August 1st was Miguel's surprise birthday party, and it was great! We had amazing food, drinks, and games. I'll have to add pictures later, as soon as I get them. The look on his face when he walked through the gate, I'll never forget it!

Wishing you the big 2-3!

Today is Miguel's 23rd birthday, and he still looks every bit of 22! I love this man so much and I want to make everything perfect for his birthday! My heart is filled with joy at the idea of making him smile, laugh, love on his birthday. I would travel to the end of the earth for this man. Happy birthday baby, it's going to be a long fun one!

To the world, you may be one person. But to me, you are the world.

Oh, how I love this man

To be completely honest, Miguel and I weren’t doing so well a little while ago. There was fighting, crying, and general aggravation all of the time. Of course, we were able to eventually talk through things and figure out what needed to be done, but it wasn’t always so clear. The arguments were about this and that, but they really boiled down to two simple facts:

1. I needed to realize some facts about myself, and accept them instead of taking them out on Miguel.

2. He needed to learn to work with me, not against, and share with me some of the things that were stressing him.

See, we both needed to work on our patience and understanding because in all reality the arguments were coming from within and not from the actual argument. So how did we finally come out understanding each other a little better? Heck if I know, but thank God we did! I guess sometimes you have to hit rock bottom before you realize the truth of situations and not just what you keep telling yourself or want yourself to believe. I can’t really say what it was for Miguel, but for me I just woke up from my world and realized how much this man loves me and how much I want him to always love me. We had the chance to in a sense, fall in love with each other all over again, and boy did we!

All of this brought me to some enlightenment that I wanted to share. True, real life love is so new to me, and we are constantly learning new things about it. So what I learned this time is that the saying “It won’t always be perfect” is so spot on. What’s more, I don’t think that I want it to always be perfect because then I wouldn’t appreciate the great times as much as I do now. Love is absolutely not about being perfect; in fact I think it’s the complete opposite. It’s about mistakes and making them right, it’s about forgiveness and the chance to realize that you can forgive, it’s about laughter and crying, and it’s about aggravation and compromise and sacrifice, and most of all it’s about absolute lust, passion, and wet kisses. It’s messy and fun and I wouldn’t change it for anything in the world. I realized that maybe I should sacrifice some of my wants for the greater good, after all the pay off is amazing. It doesn’t mean that I loose my voice, but more like I just listen before I voice my opinion. How has stopping to listen to each other changed things? Well, how has it not? We talk about what’s going on, we talk about the important issues with out emotion. We talk and talk and talk, which is an important thing for a woman. We love, and love, and love, which is important for both of us. I can’t get enough of this man, and he can’t get enough of me. What’s more, all of this talking helps me to feel right, and to see things more clearly. Even though he hates me to say it, Miguel has really helped me to come a long way emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. So I look forward to growing with each other individually and together for a long, long, long time.

Happy 4th!

We decided at the last minute to go downtown to watch the Freedom over Texas fireworks show. It was amazing! They had some really unique fireworks including Saturn's, hearts, and some other shapes. There were bright colors, and some of them even looked like they would hit us (even though we were very far away)! We were actually supposed to go down there earlier for the entire event, but we decided to be lazy instead. While sitting here watching the concert on television I got this ting if regret for not going. So Miguel decided right then and there that we would high tail it down to see it! Isn't he such a wonderful man! I was going to add video of the fireworks, after all who doesn't like a fireworks show, but it's not working with me. I'll try to get it to work later!

4X4

OK, here's the game-

In your picture files, go to the 4th album, then go to the 4th picture. Show & tell. Then go down 4 more albums, go to the 4th picture, and show & tell. Do this 4 times (if you can) to get a total of 4 pictures.

Ready, get set, go!

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As uncomfortable as he looks, he was perfectly happy here!
I was at school and I was eating my lunch in the car when I notice this squirrel. He was staring down a bright red car parked in front of him!
There's not much I can say about this one besides look at my boys! So adorable!
And now I'm out of pictures. Your turn!

07-07-2008 The best day of my life, so far =)

Were coming up on our 1 year anniversary very soon! It actually went by like a blur, so I'm looking forward to many, many more anniversary's. We want to do something big, something amazing to celebrate it. We thought about going on a horse drawn carriage ride downtown and then going to see a play (which I've never been to one before). The only problem is that there are no plays on that day =( Miguel thinks that we should go later to a show and celebrate it then, but I want to celebrate it on the day. My idea was to go skydiving, but Miguel just won't have it. So what do you think? Were looking for suggestions for our anniversary!

Date nights!

Sometimes movie nights are my favorite! I have to admit, I am one of those people that get so tied up in sitcoms, and I could watch movies all day long. So going out with my sweetheart and sharing a movie together (and personal commentary) is a blast for me. The movie we watched was The Hangover, and it was pretty funny but I wouldn't suggest children watching it. Sometimes movies have an impact on me because I can see part of myself in the characters that I either like or don't like. So in the movie the "Dr's" girlfriend is a complete b****! While on the other hand the woman getting married was so understanding and laid back, and I realized that I want to be more like that! I heard on the radio about a couple, I believe the longest marriage in the United States, that has been married for 80 years! Wow, so how did they keep things so great for so long? When the woman commented she said something close to " We still cuddle, we don't fight, a good marriage take a lot of understanding and forgiveness, you should always laugh together and talk together, and don't forget to have a little bit of exercise." It really touched me, what she said, and I'm probably not doing it any justice. It made me stop and think that even though you have that good connection, and I mean that really great once-in-a-lifetime love connection, you still have to put some work into it to keep it great. When the man responded to the question of how they were able to keep things great for so long he simply responded "she never gets mad at me." So I'm going to try this, God be with me. I'm going to try to go with out getting mad at Miguel for things, and I believe I can do it if I remind myself of the bigger picture. We'll see!