Oh me, oh my, has it really been 5 years that we have been married? The older we get the more I realize how true that saying is, "Time really flies when your having fun." Joaquin and I have been through a lot and I am so happy and grateful to have had him by my side. Sure, we've had our ups and downs but now that the time has flown by, I can't really remember the downs and the ups have remanded in my memory.

I can remember being married for one month and we decided to go up to Lake Tahoe and celebrate our 1 month anniversary on Rich's boat. Well it was a big adventure and I actually came home and wrote it down in my journal because I knew I'd always want to remember our trip. Here is the entry from my journal almost 5 years ago.

We headed up to Tahoe for the weekend. We met his dad on Saturday, then we drove around on the big boat with him and his Dad's buddy, Ted along with his girlfriend. We drove over to Emerald Bay and swam and fished with no luck. Anyway, the plan was to use the big boat, sleep over and head home the next day. Well, rich and his friends left and we drove our boat back over to Emerald bay and hung out. We had a blast, we swam and jumped off rocks. The water was really cold but it is so clean and it felt really refreshing to swim in it. Well after we were done swimming we got in the boat and Joaquin fished again and I read the notebook out loud to him. The sun started to set and we decided it was time to go back and dock up. Well, the boat didn't start. He tried again and again. There was nothing. I started to freak out because we were stranded and my phone was dead and Joaquin had barely a bar left of battery. Joaquin did call his Dad with the last bit of juice on his phone and left him a message. I was getting tired so I put sweats on and crawled into bed. I fell right asleep but Joaquin had me get up once to see how beautiful the sky was. It was so romantic and I wish I could re-live that moment because did I appreciate it?....NO! If I could, I would do it a little different. I was #1 a little crabby, being in the sun all day and nervous about what would happen to us in the middle of Lake Tahoe. (I think secretly I thought we might die of starvation.) Joaquin probably slept an hour that night. He was worried the boat would drift into the rocks. Anyway, in the morning we woke up watched the sunrise and we went back to bed. Then around 8 or 9 am, I was really freaking out. We tried using oars to get us back to shore but it was really hard and we were not seeing progress so Joaquin put on a life vest and tried to tow the boat with his body. That's right! Macho man thought he would bring us to land with his body alone. I tried to wave people down, waving an oar in the air from the top of the boat. People just thought we were saying hello. Finally I jumped in the water with him and I try to help. Then these people drove by on their speed boat and I'm waving and they wave back. I think they could tell there was a problem so the stopped. We told them the problem and the guy let Joaquin use his cell. He talked to his dad and his Dad said Ed and another guy were coming out with gas. We thought something was wrong with the engine. Nope, just out of gas. (The gas gauge was broken and Rich put 100 gallons of gas in the boat when he first got up to Tahoe so he thought we were ok.) Well Ed showed up and sure enough, that was the problem. We drove our back to dock up and we went home. That was our first adventure as a happily married couple.

So fun huh? Hope that wasn't too personal but it was a good memory. Love you Joaquin you really are such a good man and a great Dad!