My You Story

Sometimes we just need a reality check. You're that reality check for me. You see, I may possibly be over working myself at the moment, but you want to make sure I give myself time to relax. If I were on my own, I'd probably never stop doing stuff (even the things that I don't need to do, just because I feel like they keep me busy). When is the last time you thought about self care? I'll tell you straight up, I only think about it when it is brought to my attention. You, on the other hand, are always thinking about how to keep us healthy. I may get annoyed sometimes about how particular you are with stuff, but I know you're just trying to keep us healthy and alive for as long as possible. That's something I shouldn't take for granted. You are not just worried about your own life, but mine as well. Thank you for caring! With love always, Becca Colón P.s. Hopefully that tea helps a bit.

For better or worse. That's what we say in our vows. It's something we all hope stays on the "for better" side, but all know that worse sometimes happens. It's all a matter of, how do you deal with that worse. One thing I admire about Marc is his resilience. He makes hard times look simple. Making, for worse, pretty much non-existent with him. I've never seen someone go through hardships and come out as gracefully as he does. I may be married to Marc, but we're also married to life. The way Marc has navigated through life has shown me his willingness to persevere. In my eyes, if he could do that with life, he could do it with me. I look to be as resilient as he is one day.  With love always, Becca Colón P.s. I want to be like you when I grow up.

These videos always keep me going. With love always, Becca Colón P.s. All about the time.

It's going to be like I'm back at school, and that's no fun. Good ol' July, typically my favorite month, will not be my favorite this year. This year, it is the month keeping me away from my husband and home. The month that throws our routine around and gives it a big punch in the face whenever it feels like it. Marc will be working his usual schedule, and I'll be working every day until August. Our daily dinners will take a hit, and with that, so do lunches. When I get home I'm tired, grumpy, and have work to do. It makes me feel horrible. Then I think to myself, in a couple of weeks, it will all be worth it. The work we put in will all make a difference. One month is nothing babe. We got this. Oh, and happy late 1/2 year anniversary. We've made it through half of our hardest year of marriage. I love you bub. With love always, Becca Colón P.s. Oh, and happy Marc holiday!

You have more in common with him than you know haha <3 I will say, you eat a lot nicer than he does. You've shown me the inside means the world to a person with your heart of gold. With love always, Becca Colón P.s. This is what happens when you take me to Disney!

There's always been that feeling I've had of wanting to be a Disney princess, usually Mulan. She was strong, beautiful, and intelligent. For as much as I'd like to relate to Mulan, I feel more like Simba. Just like Simba, I had to find myself before I realized I could love someone. Even though Simba didn't have Nala around growing up, he found himself. Lucky enough for me, I had the pleasure of having Marc around watching me grow. Oh, and clearly I was always the one going after him (if it were the other way around I'd be Nala). Throughout the Lion King movie, you see Simba hesitate with going after Nala. He sees how special she is, and is nervous he's going to ruin it all. That's kind of how I felt going after Marc. No worries though, it all came together! With love always, Becca Colón P.s. I'm still a princess!

This is what love is all about! With love always, Becca Colón P.s. That will be us one day!

I love being a storyteller. Our story is probably the biggest part of our lives. "Nice ring. Are you married?!?!" Yes we are! Man, I just love meeting new people. What's even more exciting about telling people we're married, is learning about other people's marriages. It's not very often we meet people our age that are married. Not only does being able to talk about our story get me excited, but our views on marriage as well. So often, people become worried that we're too young to be married. If you don't have a solid foundation of what marriage means to you, that's probably true. Marc and I were always different in that aspect. We knew exactly what we wanted, and agreed on what it meant to us. Today, when someone found out we were married, they felt the need to bring up divorce rates. After explaining what marriage meant to us, that person and everyone in the group knew what we had in each other is something special. Divorce has nothing on our

When in doubt, what would Marc do? When Marc and I talk about making decisions, it's pretty obvious about how we come to the results that we do. He's very logical, and I'm very emotional. Anytime we put something on tv, or a scenario comes up, Marc has this fascination of explaining what he'd do in the situation. I guess he likes to express his conclusions because he's thought them through. Since he thinks them through, they're almost always smart decisions. Things I'd never even think about (probably because I think about surface issues). But seriously, whenever he explains himself, I can't help but be amazed at the things that run through his mind. And it only gets better. He doesn't just talk the talk, but he walks the walk. With love always, Becca Colón P.s. You're testing me! Hahah, I need to go to sleep! Concussion I tell you!

I've spoken plenty about how encouraging Marc can be, and a lot of the time I really need it. If I were on my own, I'd probably always take easy roads, but with him, I'm challenged. Challenged in a way that inspires me to try even harder. I become super anxious when things go wrong, and almost always go into shut down mode. It makes me angry at how upset I can become. I lose a lot of faith in myself. Over the past couple of months, Marc has said something to me many times. "Don't be afraid to take risk" So, I'm making sure to do things full steam ahead. I'm going for it. With love always, Becca Colón P.s. This was written before our conversation.

When I finally listen to songs you want me to listen to, I usually end up liking them. Just how I love this one. With love always, Becca Colón P.s. It's beautiful! Even the video is cute.

We're going to be 6 months in a couple of days. In a couple of days it will be 5 months since I've been a Colón. If you've gotten your name changed before you'll understand me when I say, it ain't easy. You'd think it was a matter of signing a different name. It's not even close. With that being said,  it is a long and tedious process, there are certain things that you don't get around to. Over the past couple of weeks, I've been trying to finalize my last name change every where. In doing so, the rounds of congratulations are once again never ending. It has me in a giddy mood all over again. It's really something special to hear, "Congrats Mrs. Colón," or to be given the chance to talk about our story. I love sharing a name with you babe. Even if it means having to hear the million and 3 ways people butcher our last name. With love always Becca Colón P.s. Good thing we gotta sleep early. I'm beat!

I'll be the first to admit, I am selfish of your time. When it comes to time, I want to spend it all on you. I know we were talking about love languages this morning, and we joked about mine being physical touch considering how much I love to cuddle, but quality time is my actual winner. This morning I did come in the room to wake you up so we could get moving. Once I actually came back up to the room and saw you laying down so peaceful, I realized I didn't want to ruin or leave that moment. I was hoping you'd say you were tired and just wanted to stay in for a little. You didn't, but in my head, I already decided we would relax for a bit. Between you working, me working, and random things going on throughout our weeks, we really don't get enough time together. At least not awake that is. So, when moments like this morning come by, I struggle with my selfishness. It was interesting learning about your strongest love language. I agree with you, you can argue for

Where are you hunny bun? I'm missing you. JKJK, I know where you're at. But I am missing you. I forgot what it's like to be the person leaving the house, and not being left. Going to work this morning was no fun knowing you were going to be home all day. I literally checked my watch every 5 minutes while at work just wanting to be home. At least I'm off tomorrow. I guess this is what moms feel when they have to leave their kids at home. It's rough.  Do you feel this way every weekday when you leave me? You better! I hope you guys had a good time today! With love always, Becca Colón P.s. Dinner soon?

You guys probably think I'm a cheesey weirdo when I talk about meeting with Marc's family, but I can't help it. All day, I was having a bit of a rough day at work. To top it all off, traffic didn't help. My day quickly changed once I got home to my hubby. The laughs started right away and I couldn't be happier. Home sweet home. Next stop, Marc's God family's house. I've known about Marc's godparents since the moment I met him pretty much, so I try to soak up every moment I have with them. I know how much they, and their relationship mean to him. As much as they mean to him, they mean to me. Anyone that makes my husband happy is great in my eyes. Thank you Colón family, and congrats Kelli! With love always, Becca Colón P.s. I'll fix you with my love!

We've been in sharky moods lately, feeling like Robert Herjavec. We've been wanting to make moves for some time now, and with our future ahead of us, anything is possible. If there is anything other couples who married young could advise us on, it is working with the unknown. We're both so young, and have long lives to live, but when you're in a relationship, you want to make sure everything is stable enough to make those risky moves. We can always pray for another tomorrow, but it isn't always guaranteed. So, do we remain stable and comfortable, or do we take the risk? Anytime Marc comes up with ideas, I try to think it through in .2 seconds to make sure it's not completely crazy, and then I go into supportive mode. If Marc ever has an actual dream or passion, I never want to crush it. I want him to feel comfortable enough to be open to me with ideas, and to feel like he can accomplish anything (because I know he can). There are many things I admire about M

Have you ever sat down, and tried to figure out how you got to where you are today? I don't usually think about it too much, but when I do, I get super excited and am reminded how grateful I am. For work, next week, I have to create a life map, so it got me thinking. What is my love map? My love map is a huge part of my life map. I met Marc my first year of high school. What if I hadn't been facing out of the bus the way I had been that day? What if we didn't have mutual friends? What if I wasn't bold enough to ask him to be my boyfriend (many times over)? What if we went to different colleges? What if I hadn't been so annoying and persistent? What if I hadn't stalked his life our entire college careers (true story)? What if we hadn't gone on all of those late night Applebee dessert dates? What if I hadn't asked Marc for his help all of those times I didn't really need help, but just wanted his company (also, true story)? What if we never allowed

What do you do when you want to be one million places at once? Rush to do everything! Here was my dilemma. It all started out with a good old, "oh you're in hurry?" kind of customer service. You can imagine how impatient I was getting. Rest assured, I held my composure. So, I leave the place very last minute to rush home and make dinner. I could not go out and about without having dinner ready for my hubby when he got home, even if I couldn't be there. At this point, I become Speedy Gonzalez (just adding another Hispanic name to my title). I race home to make dinner, and race over to my sister's basketball game. Of course I wanted to be there for her, but I get there with four minutes left in the game because cooking takes a little longer than expected. You can imagine how my frustration continued. I told myself, no matter what it takes, I still have a bit of time to make it home before Marcky Marc so we can have our daily dinner time. Once again, back on the

Oh my, I'm turning into my grandpa. Anytime I'd leave the house all late, or drive while it was dark out, or too early, he'd say, "That's not nice!" I now understand why it's not nice. When Marc is driving out and about late at night, I have to keep happy thoughts in my head so I don't freak out about him getting home a minute later than he tells me. Or as my mom tells me, "You're my precious," I can't let anything dangerous happen to you. Plus, you work all day long every day, so whenever you leave the house I go into lonely mode again, and I like us mode better. I like being able to yell across rooms and have someone reply. It's no fun when I'm home alone yelling (that may or may not be a joke). And I love being able to laugh with you when Herky barks at the animals on tv like he just did. I don't even laugh out loud because you're not beside me to make fun of my different laughs. Oh, and I like the way you like

You can see I'm really tired, and a bit stressed, so thank you for doing my chores. Thank you for scratching my back when I'm trying to relax a little. Thank you for trying to keep me concentrated on the task at hand. Thank you for making me laugh. I agree with you. I wish tomorrow didn't have to happen. Who likes Mondays anyway? Not us, that's for sure. We like Saturdays and Sundays. Friday nights too. Who knew putting on the Big Bang Theory could be a motivator? They're so smart. They remind me of you. Except you're a lot cooler than they are. Oh, and I love how every time Sheldon says something ridiculous you give me the stare. The unspoken stare that says, "I know you think this is funny!" Most importantly, thank you for staying my best friend all this time <3 I love you bub. With love always,  Becca Colón P.s. The towels!

I want to be like you when I grow up (as you say any time I accomplish something). No, but seriously, you're what I want to be like when I grow up. I want to have your drive, your edge, I want it all. There are days like today when I really really wish to be like you. Your independence and strength is something I wish to achieve one day. You seriously get everything done and always come out on top. You set your mind to something, and bam, it's yours. And for as much as I'd like to blame it on luck, I know it's all of the work you put into everything. There are some moments when we're deciding between something as small as pizza, and you think through everything. For me, I just think of what would taste best. For you, you think about what taste best at every temperature, can it be reheated and still taste good, what will the service be like, how long until we get it, will the price match the quality, EVERYTHING! Anyone that knows you, knows I did not exaggerate j

Herky is in a playful mood, Marc doesn't have work tomorrow, and pizza is in our stomachs. Life is good. Now time to cuddle for the rest of the night, eat ice cream, and watch some movies/tv. They say after a vacation, you need a vacation, and boy is that true. Since Marc and I have been back we've been on the move and exhausted. Finally, we are relaxing and enjoying our time together in peace, even though our car ride was supposed to be peaceful and quiet, and I couldn't stop coughing. I'm already sleepy, and I'm sure you are too, but we still have cereal to eat, and at least one episode of Shartank to watch. Let the night begin. With love always, Becca Colón P.s. Can you pretty please get the cereal??

Since I have this summer off, I went out job hunting. Before getting married, looking for a job meant going anywhere someone would hire me. Things are different now though. I'd want to either work close to home, or close to Marc's job, and that's exactly what I did. I looked for places around his job, and found one. Tomorrow morning, I won't just be waving goodbye as Marc heads out for the day, I'll be getting ready with him, to be dropped off  at work. It's something small, but I'm actually quite excited. Especially because once I'm let off of work I'll have the excuse that I'm waiting for my husband to pick me up. I've never said that before. I haven't worked close enough to Marc's job in the last 6 months. We have a long day ahead of us tomorrow! With love always, Becca Colón P.s. I liked this portable cooker on Shark Tank right now. You're missing it.

There is something so comforting about cooking breakfast for dinner and watching a basketball game at home with my hubby. We had a great family vacation this week, and are finally home relaxing until he has work tomorrow. *Sad face* As I made dinner, I had to tell Marc how oddly comforting it was to be back to our routine. His mom's house felt like home to us, but being back here gives you that weird feeling. That, "Ahhhhh" kind of feeling. Thank you Lina and Boby for making Marc and I feel so at home. The week wouldn't have been the same without you guys! I know you're super sad about going back to work tomorrow bub, but it's okay. Two days until the weekend is here! I hope you're happy to be back home living with just lil' ol' me.  With love always, Becca Colón P.s. The weekend is near!

It's been a smooth sailing last day here in Florida, and we're looking forward to having a nice dinner with Marc's mom and little brother. It's never a fun time knowing Marc will be heading back to work so soon, but I know it's something that has to be done. Sadly, we can't vacation forever. We've had lots of fun over here the past few days, and am sure we'll be on our fun high for a while. I've said it one hundred times already, but thank you babe. For the trip, for your company, for your family, for everything. It is seriously appreciated. I hope you're enjoying your time out with your brother right now. I feel bad you can't have that time with him all of the time. If only Florida-Philly-DR-PR were all close to each other. I know how happy that would make you. I love you bub. With love always, Becca Colón P.s. Don't stay out too late!

A long day! A long day indeed. My prince charming got me to Magic Kingdom and we had a great time. I hope you guys have seen Monsters Inc., because what I'm a out to say will be better if you've seen it. The first thing Marc and I did was go to the Monsters Inc comedy show. Marc was famous! He played the role of Randall (the villain). Then after that, we walked around and rode rides all day. It's safe to say it was a great day. And to finish the night off with the firework and Cinderella show with him was the cherry on top. When watching all of the love stories that Disney has shown us all growing up, it's hard not to imagine your fairy tale ending. The entire time I was thinking, I already have my fairy tale, and just like every great story, ours starts with a once upon a time. Let's live happily ever after! With love always, Becca Colón P.s. Thank you for today

Another beautiful day. I can't put into words how thankful I am to be here with my hubby.  You'd be surprised how much we can't get done in one day.  We woke up this morning prepared for battle. Paint balling battle that is. Me, Marc, his little brother, and his brother's girlfriend. This weekend has kind of been a weekend long double date, but it's been super fun. I love watching Marc with his brother. The laughs are unreal with these two. And I'm happy to tell you all, we made it through the war! Battle wounds and all. What's a family vacation without a family bbq? Nothing. So, of course we had one today. Just as I feel when I see Marc with his mom, brother, dad, I feel when I see him with other family. You always see a person's most genuine smile when they're surrounded by people they love. And if there is anything I love to see, it's to see my husband happy. Buen prevecho my love.  With love always, Becca Colón P.s. This soup t

I've mentioned before how much Marc pays attention to the little things and he really does. I know everyone else and their mother has been to Florida at some point, but it didn't happen for me until yesterday. Yes, I'm in Florida for the very first time all thanks to my husband. First day here, Volcano Bay! And boy did we have fun. Vacation to hot sunny places are definitely a fun time with Marc. I've never known sunburn to be such a brutal thing until vacationing with Marc. The day before flying over here, the most important thing to grab was sun block. I actually had fun picking it out. It reminded me who I was traveling with. And when you do random goofy things like you did just now, I'm reminded why I love you so much. Thank you for an amazing day, and I can't wait to see how the night finishes. With love always, Becca Colón P.s. I bet I'll be ready before you.

You feel like this when you get a break from the real world. Sometimes you get a couple of minutes. Sometimes you get a couple of hours out of the day. Sometimes you get a weekend. And other times you get a few more days than usual. But these moments are when you relax and get to just have we-time. I'm eager for our adventure, and am sure we'll have a lot of quality time together having lots of fun. We'll be surrounded by love, and time. Two things we seem to take very seriously. We wasted no time getting engaged, we wasted no time getting married, and finally, we're soaking in OUR time. I hope you enjoy our time as much as I will this week. I'm sure you will. Hopefully this rain quits so we can get some vitamin d (then again, the rain might not be a bad thing, you burn too easily). Here is to day one of our first vacation as a married couple. With love always, Becca Colón P.s. We're going to be rocked tonight!

There are some things that you do as a friend/girlfriend that feel a whole lot different as a wife. It's like how you did things before, but they mean more than they already did. When Marc and I used to eat meals together, I was always so conscious about what Marc would think if I ate something weird, and now we're able to just be ourselves. If you know me, you know I am one of the clumsiest people out there. Before, anytime I would trip over nothing, or drop food on my shirt, I'd be super embarrassed (don't get me wrong, it's still embarrassing). But now, Marc knows that's kind of just me. A hot mess of a human. This seems like something odd to talk about, but a couple of days ago, I couldn't help but laugh at how well my husband knew me. We were walking around down town, and bumped into a girl who wasn't paying attention to us walking by. She ended up walking back into Marc. Immediately, Marc and I looked at each other and laughed. We knew exactly