Growing up in Arizona, i never saw snow. When I was 19 i moved to Colorado and we had snow, but where I lived we never saw more than a few inches.  A few years later we moved to North Carolina, we never saw more than a few inches. Now we are in NY and WOW-WEE I have never seen snow like this. We received 14 inches of snow in a blizzard. There are snow drifts that are 3 feet high.

My kids wanted to go play in the snow, and my daughter ended up getting stuck in the snow. I walked the the snow and some snowdrifts to get her, snow was all the way to my butt. it was crazy.

This was our first Christmas on Long Island. No snow on Christmas day, but we still had a good time.

Santa was good to the kids

We had trouble with my son though, he wanted me to open his presents so he could play with his new cars.

I think next year Santa will be bringing a lot of clothes and less toys.

We finally got our first snow last week, here in Long Island

My husbands work/school held an event  just for the kids this year.  There was Santa and his elves, a magic show, face painting and fun.   Santa even had a present for each child.  I forgot my camera at home, so I was only able take the after pictures.

                                                                                                                          Face Painting

                                                                                                                              Balloons

They each got a present from Santa, but they were all upset that it wasn’t what they asked santa for.   We had fun though.

She bumped her head and wanted the ice pack, but ended up falling asleep.

My baby boy is turning 3 today. I can’t believe it.

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This video is a few months old, but I caught my daughter with my Flip in her hand and she started running while the Camera was on.

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Yes I am married and have been for 6 years. The reason for the title, well my wedding secret.

In 2004 after dating on and off my boyfriend and I decided we needed to live together if we were going to make it work. He was in the Army and we lived in different states. So I moved to Colorado, We were flat broke and didn’t have any or anything. We decided to get married, there was no proposing, no ring, we mutually agreed.

Off to Walmart to buy cheap gold bands and then t o the courthouse. We were married in front of a judge with no witness. No flowers, no Wedding Dress( I wore a black prom dress), no honeymoon, nothing, just us in a plain court room

  We didn’t tell our family we were married. My husband told his parents after a couple weeks, and I told mine after like 5 months. See I was 19 at the time and my mom hated that my brother eloped, so I didn’t have the heart to tell her. Plus she would of never let me do it.  I finally told her and she was so crushed, I hated myself.

So I have one small token of that night a single picture, well besides thats the night that I became pregnant but thats a different story. LOL

(No I am not pregnant in this picture, the dress is just makes me look fat.

I want the beautiful pictures and family and memories with a real wedding, someday.

We live in a tiny 1150 sq ft apt, but we still decided to buy a large artifical tree.   Now if I can just get my kids to leave it alone.

Kenzie’s kindergarten school picture.