Papi and Me

I got tagged!

Papi and Me

1) Where did you meet? I always tell people we met in Scottsdale and that his friend introduced us, all true. End of story. But it's been almost 15 years ago, so I think it's time to come out with the whole truth. We met at a drag queen club after hours. Is that bad? His friend grabbed me and said his friend wanted to meet me and he introduced us. I thought it was kind of fun having to talk to him in Spanish because I had high school level Spanish and thought I could speak it. Basically we communicated through other means.

2) How long till you got married? 3 years and 9 months later almost to the day.

3) How long have you been married? 10 years in March

4) Your favorite feature of his? His MUSCLES, biceps, triceps, delts, oooh . . . I just want to eat them up.

5) Your favorite quality of his? His total willingness to sacrifice seeing our children grow up just so he can provide us with everything we need.

6) Does he have a nickname for you? When we first started hanging out I was "la mormona". We still have some friends that only know me by that name. But now I'm "mami" (said mommy).

7) His favorite foods? Rice, rice, chicken, oh and rice.

8) What are his favorite sports to watch? duh!

9) When was your first kiss? June 1995

10) Whats your favorite thing to do as a couple? Umm . . .maybe we'll skip this one I mean do you really want me to go there?

11) Do you have kids? This only confirms my answer to the previous question, 4 in 5 years.

12) Does he have a hidden talent? He's so good at using what he has to make or fix anything. I'm sure there's a word for this I just don't have that big of a vocabulary. He replaced a toilet with only a screwdriver.

13) How old is he? A few years older than me. But like I'm going to tell you how old we are. I already came clean about where we met.

14) Who said I love you first? HE DID!

15) What do you admire most about him? How far he's come. He grew up in the Dominican Republic in the sugar cane fields. He carried a machete to school so he could eat sugar cane for breakfast along the way because that's all there was. He used to play baseball using the rubber flaps off of big truck tires for a glove. They made there own baseballs out of whatever they had around. And now here he is supporting a family of 6. We have two cars and nice house. He's come so far and that is what I most admire about him, his ability to succeed even when all odds were stacked against him.

16) What is his favorite type of music? I'd have to say the older merengue, not the new merengue house stuff but the good classics. And he likes country. :) What latin do you know that likes country?

17) Do you think he will read this? No, he doesn't read the blog. He just looks at the pictures. I usually tell him everthing that's going on anyway.

18) I tag: Anyone who is as in love with their man as I am with mine.