Save Our Date!

The univere has a strange way of making things happen at the right moment. In 1998, on my firts Army assigment, in Germany, I met a couple (Adrian & Maria Tapia), who intantly made me part of the family. We spent 2 years together having long conversations about our families. Eventually meeting each others families. But after 15 years of sharing a friendship, only one person had I not met Maria’s only brother. And it was at this time that the family was celebrating a quisianera for their eldest daughter that I took that trip to Texas. We met that night, Carlos asked me to go with him to Austin the next day but “just as friends”...😉 While in Austin he tells me I’m going to take you to this great restaurant your going to love it and I bet you dont’t have this in California.... well we pull in and I look at the restaurant and Im like “ Are you talking about BJ’s... but we do have those” 🤔😂 Poor Carlos was so embarassed. We had a great meal and talked and laughed for hours. We contunued to talk as friends thru out the years... but nothing else.... Fast forward to Christmas Eve 2015, I was back in Texas. I had come to the conclusion I would be single for ever and was going to make everday the best one yet! The Tapias family was having a family gathering, Carlos arrived that evening and did not leave my side that night. Even though I tried not to comit to a relationship, he was fully determined to make it work. So here we are moving forward not as two but as one!