To give you some background, I was married before. I met my starter-husband (yeah, I said it!) when I was 19, had our first date on my 20th birthday in November, and eloped off to Vegas (in Caesar’s–it was sort of planned out in 3 weeks) in April. We were married for 4 LONG years, when I told him our marriage was a big joke, I want a divorce. After a few days, he relented and filed.

Fast forward to my wonderful Papi! I met him when I was still married through a coworker at a happy hour. I’d see him occasionally and we’d say Hi, but that was about it. No sparks! haha Then one beautiful June day, I saw him at work and he came by to say hello. He asked me to meet up for a drink later in the day at twilight festival. Of course! Sparks FLEW! We dated, he moved in in November, I met his family, we fell in love. We had a brief “break” from February to May–it was so intense so fast! I admit, we still hooked up on occasion and loved eachother so much! We got back together, he moved back in and BAM! I was pregnant. Oops. We told our families, and we allowed ourselves to get excited. We got engaged. I finally went to the doctor at 12 weeks. During the ultrasound, my doctor could not find the heartbeat. In the first week of September, I had a DNC. It broke my heart and it was very hard to get over.

In December, Papi got an opportunity to expand on his career, but we’d have to move 4 hours away to another state. He agreed and I came with. Soon after we moved, I got pregnant, AGAIN! It felt like a mixed blessing. I never really got over losing the first baby, and this actually took my mind off of it. Unexpected, but I was happy and excited about life. Papi was really happy! We went to the doctor at 7 weeks and there was a heartbeat AND we could see our little pea on the ultrasound! We cried, so happy!

We had a great pregnancy. We contemplated getting married–but his insurance wouldn’t cover the baby, and mine wouldn’t either. So we held off and I had our beautiful angel in September. But now, he can add me and Babygirl to his insurance. Just need to get married now! We have decided on June 2nd, 2008. That’s the 3 year anniversary of our first date. We will just go to the courthouse and do a quick little ceremony–unless we join a church before now and then and convince the pastor to do it. It’s a Monday, and I want an afternoon.

Yesterday, I got my dress!!

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Yes, it’s black with beautiful light pink detailing. I LOVE IT! It’s prefect and I can wear it over and over again. Only thing is, normally this dress would fit me perfectly–but since I had the baby, I have a little bit of a different shape. I have to lose a little weight to make it PERFECT. I’ll give details to that in my next post.

I want a small bouquet of light pink lilies. We’ll most likely (if it’s open!) Go to Mary’s Fine Dining in Herrin, Illinois for a nice early dinner. I do not know if we’ll have our parents there or not yet. Debating…

If you really want to get into the wedding mood, go to my dear friend, Krystle’s page. She’s having a BLOWOUT wedding!!