We’re getting married!

We met when we were just 13 years old. It was in my science class that I met this kind and friendly girl. We had a great friendship at the time. I never thought that the same girl I met such a long time ago would be my wife one day. I moved away from my home town Belen and since lost contact with her. Many years passed. We went to different high schools, I left the state for college, she stayed, and then I returned home to Albuquerque. For some odd reason she crossed my mind and I decided to find her on social media which is normal now, in days. I found her and we spoke again. We talked about our journeys and what life brought us at age 25. Erika had a son who I instantly fell in love with. I knew she was the one and since then we never looked back. I thank God every day for putting these two angels in my life and He even gave me a bonus blessing our son, Mateo.

Jaime proposed to me at an Albuquerque Sol soccer game. The weather was windy and rainy and it was my understanding we were there only to hear Jaime make a speech for work... which made absolutely no sense to me. I got to the game after work and was super grumpy and irritated because of the weather. Jaime was getting super nervous because I had no idea what was about to happen and I was just being a grump! I got out of the car and walked to sit with Jaime and Isaiah and a few of Jaime's friends. Then I see his family walking over and then I see mine, which I thought was so completely strange because they had just made their way back from Colorado and then stopped to come to the soccer game. ( They aren't at all into soccer...btw) Fast forward, Jaime was supposed to make this "speech" at half time, so during the whole first half he looked super nervous and I got nervous because I had no idea what was going on. Half time hits and they are about to announce the winner of a jersey that people bought raffle tickets for... When the man on the field called out the winner, he said my name and my heart sunk into my stomach. FYI, I never bought a raffle ticket. At that point I definitely knew something was about to happen. I got up to walk down to the field and I could hear Jaime get up to follow me. The man on the microphone asked me how I felt about the whole game and the cause for the game, which was for breast cancer, and all I could say was, "I don't know what to say right now." I was so nervous and in shock. Then he gives the microphone to Jaime and he gets down on his knee and asks me to marry him. And it took him a good few seconds to get the ring out of his pocket, it was stuck, and onto my hand, because we were both shaking so much. And here we are <3