Three years ago today, My Wife and I made a promise to each other. That promise was to love the other and stay together forever.
These past three years have seen many unexpected ups and downs for us both, which ultimately turned us into a Family. We were given the most amazing gift from God named Ma'la'ki, who is our Miracle boy.
Even with the ups, the downs have not been shy. Our health hasn't been perfect, hopes and dreams have been trampled on by others, losses of family and best friends, and financial situations that can only be described as a roller coaster designed in the shape of the Rocky Mountains. Through many things that would drive others apart, our love has only become stronger.
Perhaps, it's the almost fairy-tale-like beginning we had when we met while I was on vacation in Paradise, searching for myself when I was led directly to her. A beginning that you only read in sappy, too-good-to-be-true Love novels that finally brings two people together that had many years ago lived in the same small, country island town. Shopping in the same stores, passing by each other's houses, going to the same beaches, having the same teacher, never knowing that our search for true love would one day bring us together when we both least expected it, yet, needed the other more than ever.
Perhaps, It's the experiences we had both gone through in our past relationships that taught us the things we know now that instill a sense of security and a knowing that we both truly love, respect, and understand each other in ways no one else ever tried to.
Perhaps, even it was the gift of our son, a gift, a miracle, that was thought to only be allowed to exist in daydreams but, indeed, became reality through our love.
Perhaps it was one or all of those things that have made us stronger day after day, year after year. No matter what we are met with we take each other's hand and face it head on, secure in life with the comfort of each other.
During these three, fast years, I have been blessed, in so many ways. From a settling of a Deep-seated sense of disconnect in life that came from a seemly unending need to re-visit Hawai'i because I felt like I was incomplete and had to return for some reason. I know what that reason was because as soon as I kissed her lips, that longing disappeared and I have felt whole ever since.
We've seen a lot in three years. We have been put under pressure, and we do not break. I don't know what the next three years will hold, but, I do know that we will be standing strong, still thankful for the day that finally lead us into each other's arms.
Chantel, I am eternally grateful, from the deepest parts of my soul for the love that you give me day after day, even when I myself think I don't deserve it, you are always there looking at me with love in your beautiful brown eyes. When our paths finally crossed, my life became truly meaningful and completely satisfying and I could not ask for anything more because you fulfill every want and desire.
I love you!
I took this screenshot moments before I first laid eyes on my beautiful future.
