Rehearsal Dinner Party!

Rocky and I were blessed to have my Uncle Tom and Auntie Rachel graciously open their home up to us and our Wedding Party to celebrate with food, fun and laughter the night before our wedding!  There were many special ladies that I just adore that helped make that evening go smoothly so a BIG thank you to Auntie Rachel, Aunt Dora, Aunt Donna, Alice and Virgie and whomever else I wasn't able to see while I wasn't there behind the scenes!  AND OF COURSE my MOM, who helped most of all.  =)

Awe!

The Last Supper

~ La Familia ~

My Beautiful Flower Girls!

And my handsome little miniature groom

Sissy, Cousin Debra and Little Miss Ava

My Beautiful Bridesmaids Tiphani and Noemi

My Beautiful Bridesmaids Monique and Noemi

 The Bestest Bro N Law (EVER) Jesse and my Sissy Natalie

Cousin Tim one of our Groomsmen =)

 Cousin Patty with Seth who was our Ring Bearer. So precious!

Good friend Lynette with niece Hailey and daughter Sophia who was my Junior Bridesmaid.  I just love that little girl!  She's my angel face! =) 

My Two Favorite Men - My Dad and My Love

 My Dad, Grandmother and myself, how emotional I was before this picture!  Was almost time to call it a night!  Got to get ready for the BIG day!

Our Wedding Rehersal ~ 12/30/10

 This is Rocky and I with our Wedding Party and Family the night before our wedding at our Wedding Rehearsal! =)  We had so much fun!

Everyone (Family & Friends) sitting around visiting before things get started and me trying to figure out how to get it started! LoL

And off we go.....(My girls expressions always make me laugh)

Hmm, wondering what my cousin Andy is telling my brother n law Jesse?!  Tim is whistling away! haha

AND my handsome Groom to be is smiling so nicely! Awe!

Yeah, I wanted to cry here.  What can I say, I love my Daddy. 

It's all becoming so real at this moment!

Now and Forever

Hand in Hand

The special words only He and I shared at this moment.

And then he made me laugh......

Then I laughed/cried.  Niiiiiice. LoL  Love it!

It's a wrap!  Let's do this!

Time to ParTay!  Rehearsal Dinner to come!

Sharing the Love

So I was thinking today about my blog. (yes, I think I found my new obsession for now hehe)  I figured that since Rocky and I have family near AND far, I would post updates and photos of our life together and what we do together as a couple, etc.  The only thing is, I couldn't decide where to start! 
Sooooo, I am going to start at the week before our wedding and go through the first year of our marriage since we are approaching our FIRST YEAR ANNIVERSARY!  I can't believe it!  December 31st of 2010 I married the love of my life!  So now that I have a vision, off to blog work I go! Can't wait to share!

A special moment

Today was a very unique day.  I want to share a special moment that Rocky and I had today that will leave a lasting impression on our hearts, forever.   Today, we visited Christian Life Center, my home church where I grew up in under the amazing leadership of Reverend Kenneth F. Haney.  As most know (but in case you don’t) Bishop Haney passed 11/10/11 and it has been a tremendous loss not only to his family but to the people who respected him and who were blessed to call him Pastor. 

After today’s beautiful service, his son, Pastor Nathaniel Haney took the time to sit and chat with people and allowed them to share their thoughts or whatever it was they had to say with him.  I thought to myself, do I dare go up there, bother him during this time of grieving and heaviness.  I looked over at Rocky and asked him what he thought and he said, “let’s go up there”….and off we went, hand in hand.  As we got up there, we both went back and forth.  What do you say to such a Godly man who is grieving the loss of his Father, a great man of God?!  Once we walked up to him he smiled big and said, “Well hi there!  How are you two?!”  Rocky said were hanging in there and then Pastor Haney went onto asking some personal questions and I chimed in and said, “wait, this isn’t what were up here for!”  He chuckled and with tears in his eyes responded with, “but I WANT to know”.  Rocky and I both got emotional.  Here is a broken man, grieving yet still trying to feed the need of the people.  I shared a brief story with him of how his Father, Bishop Haney decided one day when I was 11 that although my name was Sophia, he was going to call me Sofie because that was his Grandmother’s name.  Bishop winked at me and asked, “Is that ok?”  From then on, I was always Sofie to my Pastor.  Pastor Nathaniel smiled real big and appreciated the story and he ended the very deep intense conversation with, “I want you two to know, this week, I will be praying for you”.  I walked away knowing this was true and feeling so humbled as even in HIS brokenness HE is still building people up.  Amazing.

Our Love Story

Rocky and I met when we were young.  I was 14 and he was 17.  We began a fun filled friendship that blossomed into love the summer of 1993.  It was October of that year he asked me to be his "girlfriend" and we exchanged "I Love You's". We dated for several years and created many beautiful memories together.  We were best friends and soul mates.  As many young loves do, we parted ways but as Rocky always said, "All roads lead home" and we reconnected January of 2010 and were MARRIED December 31st 2010!  We are so thankful to have rediscovered the passionate love we had shared so long ago and are grateful to have found one another again!