Answering who we are is a complex question indeed. Do I go into what life was before and how it got us here, why we appreciate the other so much,  or who we are as a family??? I believe what is important is how quickly we knew these "puzzle pieces" fit together, Eric, Allison, and myself. We are a truly genuine and healthy family together. We love and support each other when together and also when apart. We as a couple love each other for ourselves and its not necessary to be anyone else or set aside our own beliefs or thoughts on any subject. Clearly Eric and Allison are the drama section of the family and I am the head of Team Funsucker but its a nice balance and we compliment so well like a dry aged steak with fine wine....... I think it was intended all along for us to come together we just didn't realize beforehand that such a completion was actually realistic to hope for and the roads traveled previously were all necessary to time it just right. A quote I find true in our instance states" The longer you wait for something, the more you appreciate it when you get it, because anything worth having is definitely worth waiting for". For us that meant waiting over 40 years but the time was right and we undoubtedly know how special this is and never take it for granted.  Eric and I love to try interesting things like sailing at Lake Viridian, archery, Renaissance Faires, karaoke, and supporting our daughter. I say our daughter not because her biological Dad isn't around or doesn't exist but because unlike alot of times with blended families at our house things are competely merged. Allison is our daughter not my daughter and his soon to be stepdaughter. Eric inherited her with this marriage. She is treated 110% like his own flesh and blood and its a great deal for such a special little girl. Allison gets more love and more support and guidance. I was fortunate growing up to have more love as well from a family, the Fralia's, whom I "merged" with that were not blood related but have always loved guided and supported me. I am forever grateful to have them in my life and completely give them credit for guiding me to be so kind and ethical as a whole. I am confident that this same opportunity to love and be loved and grow for the rest of our lives exists with me becoming Mrs. Eric Alexander Padilla.    

This is a huge existential question that, at least in a general sense of wondering who anybody truly is, has troubled mankind since time immemorial. Socrates, Schopenhauer, Kant, Virginia Wolfe have all struggled with this very consideration. The world's great religions seek to help us answer it. A whole self-help industry generates billions of dollars annually to help us understand ourselves. But in the end can we truly understand who we are, much less anyone else? Can a mere webpage relate what is the true essence of Eric-ness or April-ness or Eric & April-ness? Can we truly understand what drives a flamingo to play with a yo-yo or why Eric sings in the shower, or why April "forgets" to give up the Karaoke mic? And for that matter is there even really an Eric or April, or are they just projections of a quantum holographic universe?

No, perhaps it is just better to accept that there is an Eric and there is an April and that they Love each other and have decided to spend their lives together in a state of wedded bliss for We ARE Groot. :-D