Changes

It is interesting to see that I have had this blog since 2005. 2005! In 2005 I was living in Cape Girardeau and life was completely different...not only the name of this blog. Speaking of, the old name, Blonde Blueprints, went out the window with the opening of a new chapter in my life. Flying in Formation signifies a life that I have built and will continue to build with my husband, Gustavo, who is a military pilot. We are learning to live together, while still maintaining our individuality. Hence, Flying in Formation. See, I listen to the endless flying babble.

I always thought that having a blog with a military undertone was a little cliche, but it is who we are, it is who we are going to be, and it is who are kids will eventually be. I never dreamt of marrying a man in the military. In fact, I even said that I would never...but here I am living on Little Rock Air Force Base with the hum of C-130's keeping me up at night. I wouldn't have it any other way.

Speaking of husband, we had our second wedding on the 18th of February in the Dominican Republic. Everything was amazing. We arrived on Saturday and spent a few days at his family's home finishing up some wedding planning before heading to the hotel on Wednesday (the day our family from the States came in). We had a photo shoot during the week, which was eventful since there was no power in Santo Domingo during the time I had to get ready. Then on Thursday night the parties started, and so did the rain. Gustavo's family threw us a wonderful party at their home with great food, lots of beer, and live music. When the rain started everyone started dancing in the rain. Gustavo's cousin's wife, Sarah, said, "a wet bride is a fortunate bride." I could not have felt more fortunate that night after all the dancing in the rain I did.

Which leads me to something my sister told us during the ceremony: "It's not whether you can weather the storm together, its whether you can dance in the rain." The irony in her statement was beautiful since we had just done the exact thing the night before. Since the rain did not stop that next day we had to move the reception inside. I was very sad, but we still had the ceremony outside. But, everything was still wonderful. It was interesting to see all the things that I stressed over for month come together at the last moment, or not happen at all and nothing really mattered. It was all over in the blink of an eye. At midnight, we celebrated our 1 year anniversary!

Gustavo finished up his pilot training this week and will officially be working for the Puerto Rico Air National Guard as a pilot next month. We are going to try and live in Little Rock while he works out of PR. We are not sure how our lives are going to be in this routine, but it is worth a try. We like it here in Little Rock, I like my job, and we never imagined actually living in Puerto Rico. If the time apart gets too much for us then we can re-evaluate our life plan at that time. Until then, here's to being married (again), growing roots and growing together :)