Garth's lyrics... My Love Note!

(Pic from honeymoon, I don't think either of us had ever been tireder or happier!)

Dear Elmer Baby,

When the rain is blowing in your face, and the whole world is on your case; I would offer you a wArM eMbRaCe to make you feel my lOvE! When the evening shadows and the stars appear, and there is no one to dry your tears I cOuLd hOlD yOu foR a MilLiOn YeArS, to make you feel my lOvE! I know you haven't made your mind up yet, but I would never do you wrong. I've known it from the mOMenT that we met, nO dOubt in my mind where yOu BeLOnG! I'd go hungry, I'd go blind for you ;I'd go crawling down the aisle for you! There ain't nothing that I wouldn't do to make you feel my LoVe! The storms are raging on a rolling sea Down the highway of regret. The winds of change are blowing wild and free But you ain't seen nothing like me yet! There ain't nothing that I wouldn't do: Go to the enDs Of tHe eArTH for you, make you hApPY, make your DrEAmS cOmE tRuE , to make you feel my lOvE! I love you Elmer Baby! Thank you for loving me!

(yes this is a Garth Brooks song, but shh! don't tell Elmer! ;-) )

Details.....

ireally want a Some of you may have been wondering why I have been holding out on my WeDdInG DeTaiLs but that is because I have been so busy getting mArRiEd and BeInG iN LoVe to fill you all in. YES! That is right I said mArrIed!! I can now FINALLY say that I have never been HaPpIeR iN AlL mY LiFe and I owe it all to lOvE oF mY LiFe!! I am still waiting on my professional pictures to come back so I can sHoW you all the details, there really isn't much ( I did it all with less than $450 including the ring! YAY US! ) but until then I will give you a taste: A BeAcH in HawAiI, sUnSeT, WhItE dReSs and wHiTe LeIs; nothing else but a few close friends, some family and oUr lOvE to bRigHteN the grey cloudy sky!!! Yes everyone I was jUst MaUieD and am now MrS. eLMeR M. bArRiEnToS!!!

HeRe'S tO uS!!!

And then.... IT DID!

Sometimes I forget just how goOD mY LiFe iS. Bills and laundry, housework and endless trips to the super-market can make me forget just how bLesSEd I am; BUT then there are those times when kAi and eLmER and i are all tOgEtHeR doing nothing much but just enjoying each other. Last night was one of those days. As I sat HApPiLy watching Kai and Elmer PLaY, I thought to myself "Could life get any better?"; And then.... It did! We're getting mARriED!!!!

Brrr....

I remember the first time I came to HaWaIi. It was winter of last year. The weather was FrEeZinG on the mainland and a week in wArM weather was VERY appeal ling... until I got here and couldn't even breath it was so HoT!! Too hot to breathe meant that cUdDliNg was way out of the question. LuCkIlY for me this winter has been unusually cold; CoLd eNoUgH tO cUdDLe! The only bad part about the cold is at night Elmer's toes are IcEcIcLeS. When I crawled into bed the other night I was greeted by those cHiLlY tOeS sliding underneath my nice wArM leg. The SHIVERS it sent down my spine were quickly replaced by wArM fUzZiEs all over as Elmer's arm pulled me toward him for my most favorite thing in the wHoLe WiDE wOrLd; a GoOd oL' cUdDLe!!!! I lOvE yOu Elmer M Barrientos!!! Be grateful for the cold all you who live in it, the only SnOw mAn that Kai and I made this year was out of sAnD!!!

Kai LOVES bOoKs!!!

I have been putting off hOuSe WoRk for awhile now and last night it finally GoT tO mE, the house HAD to be cLeAnEd !!I was finding all of the usual mIspLAcEd things until I got to mR. eLmEr KaI's room. Tucked away in his favorite corner was a bOoK.... A HALF EATEN BOOK!!! No wonder the kid won't eAt HiS dInNeR!!! (The book is six pages and he ate through the corner of ALL of them!)

CoOkIe mOnStEr!!!

Being the sWeeT tOOth that I am I tried really hard not to give Kai any cookies or candy, only HeaLtHy fOoD, and I did a good job, until...GrAnDmA came to town and all my efforts went right out the window! The vErY fIrSt thing she did when we got home from the airport was give Kai a OrEo cOoKie. Kai was a little weary at first but after the first taste he was iN lOvE!!! Grandma had stolen Kai's heart with an oReO! That wasn't the only thing she stole that day... my hEaLtHy EaTeR has been replaced by a cOoKiE mOnStEr!!! Oh well, isn't that why we all loved our grandma's!?!

I am back in AcTiON and ready to bLOg. Life is a lot more FUN with the wEb. ThANkS everyone for letting me know I was mIsSeD!!! YoU aLl were missed too!!! Now I just need to figure out wHeRe to BeGiN!?!