The begining

In the beginning of our lives together it really all started around 1956-57 era. Delbert aka Beto was my girlfriend's next door neighbor. She used to date him off and on and I used to tell her "how can you stand him" well let me tell you, oops getting ahead of myself, I will tell you later. My first real dress up dance was a home coming dance and of course I did not expect to attend, but by this time my friend was into a serious relationship with someone else and her family would not let her go alone to the dance so she talked me into going with Delbert who reluctantly agreed to escort me. Well we went and when we got to the dance he went his way and I went my way. You see, he is Mexican and his friends were from the other side of town and I was this square Irish lass with friends from this side of town and neither were suppose to meet in that era. At the end of the dance he came and collected me and that was when I leaned how to shift a car, we parked but not cuddled this time and he taught me the first thing about driving in front of his Grandmother's house, after about an hour he took me home, said thanks and drove off. One other time we went to a formal dance but again my girlfriend arranged a date for me, no it was not Delbert, but he was one of the 3 couples who went and he drove. We ran into each other from time to time but never really dated. Then, now here comes the good part, one 4th of July in 1958 I ran into him at Kimball Park in National City (our home town) while I was baby sitting two brats oops did I say brats? oh well...anyway I saw him and I walked up to him and said hello long time no see then next thing he is walking with me and really talking to me, my goodness what a thrill, a big bad Marine and the most popular guy in National City was walking with little square me wow wow.....Anyway, when it came time to go home I gathered up the b....oops kids and we caught a ride home with him and his friends (who by the way were driving), we dropped the kids off and then we all sat in the car across the street from my house and we were just talking, then the next thing I knew he had his arm around me, wow double wow,,,I kept thinking how it would be to kiss him, mind you I was 16 getting ready to turn 17 in August, but the kiss was not coming, so when I said I had to go into the house he did lean over and kiss me, wow wow wow......6 months later we were married...I knew that night he was my soul mate. This is all for now, I will go on with our beginning in another blog