I met Hector when I started working at Crunch in Blackhawk. I had been offered the opportunity to leave 24 Hour Fitness for about 5 months but the timing never seemed right. Then in January, all signs pointed to me getting out of there. Coincidentally, Hector had just made the move from Sacramento to Crunch in Blackhawk. 

He started picking on me right away, but for some reason it didn't bother me. Then he started surprising me with food when I was starving. He must have known the way to my heart was through my stomach! Soon we were training our clients next to each other, sitting by the ducks talking, working out, ...pretty much spending all day together.

Then he offered to drive me to the airport at 2 am for my Seattle Marathon. At first I thought yea right who in their right mind would grt up at 1 am. Then, I had no choice but to take his offer. It was the first time we were alone together in close quarters and it was so akward! Then he blessed me for my journey and kissed my forehead, saying his mom always did that to him before he traveled. His lips felt like they were made for me, and that's all I could think about on the plane. I couldn't wait to get home to go back to work and see him!

Shortly after I came home, everyone from work went to the Journey cover band concert. Hector was misbehaving as he so often enjoys. He actually unsnapped my bra 3 times in public, which really pissed me off. But it didn't stop me from wanting to be around him all the time. Then he cornered me in the break room and told me he really liked me. I was so overwhelmed I walked away without saying a word. I remember thinking, has he really been picking on me because he likes me, as if we were in middle school!

I could not resist his charm for long, especially since I was already completely in love with him. Two weeks later, we had our first kiss. It was beautiful and scary and amazing. I remember thinking, wow, it really exists...true love. This is it! In no time we were expecting a baby.

Two and a half years later we have a beautiful blessing of a 1 year old boy and it feels like we have been together forever.We have been through so much together already, and I cannot imagine my life without him. Hector and Remi are everything to me. I am so happy to finally be able to walk down the aisle and join him in marriage. 

On a Saturday afternoon late January at the crunch gym in Blackhawk. I was in the middle of a training session when My eyes wondered away from my client toward a very captivating figure making her way up the staircase that led to the entrance of the gym. "Wow!" I normally have some colorful and often clever way to describe the fairer sex, but all I could materialize was "Wow!" Roughly 5 minutes later I saw the "punch a baby in the face sexy" creature (see told you) touring the gym with our fitness manager. By this time I am in full negligence of my personal training duties...my poor client. I could not stop staring, and I was not trying to hide it! After she talked with the manager for a few minutes, she shook his hand and made her way out of the gym, down the staircase and into my fantasies. I made haste toward our fitness manager and asked him a full status report on this example of God in his finest hour of creation! (see there I go again) He let me know that she was going to be a new trainer at our gym!!! I could have turned multiple back flips with elation! On her first day I walked up to introduce myself. Normally I give a firm handshake, make eye contact say "i'm Hector it's a pleasure to meet you" it really didn't go like that. I messed up and made eye contact way to early and got lost in what God had planned for the rest of my life, I Think i said "w-welcome to the team" WTF??!! I was in way over my head. I was immediately drawn to her like a freaking moth to a flame! I would constantly make every effort to be wherever she was. I started buying her breakfast like almost every day I got addicted to making her happy. By way of food or jokes I was doing whatever I could to ensure I was her source of happiness. She had me from the get go. When I finally came around to sharing my feelings for her it freaked her out, but we all know how that story ends ; ) One of my clients told me that Dawn and I are like two magnets that just need to be flipped around so that they are aware of the attraction and once it's there the connection is irresistible. I think it's a fair evaluation. Falling in love can be a scary thing, so much is unknown, so very vulnerable, and exposed. That's why it's called FALLING in Love. I think if you do it right you never stop falling, with faith and love as your wings and God as your Wind maybe, just maybe we can learn to soar... Here's to doing it right! Still Happily Falling Hector