Our First Christmas

It was wonderful to have Brad in my life to share the holidays with. I experienced things I have never done before with both of our wonderful families and truly had a white Christmas! It snowed like crazy, it was beautiful, but really annoying to drive in, we got stuck a few times. With the Tesch family, we went Christmas tree hunting, I got to see the joy of little ones opening up Christmas presents, and share different family traditions on Christmas Eve. We received such wonderful gifts from his family including customized Tesch Seahawks T-shirts, pretty smelly lotion, books, a really cool magazine subscription ( its right up my alley....all about organizing......its awesome!) and so much more!With my family, it was so nice to bring someone home for the holidays where we had warm homemade cinnamon buns for breakfast, opened our stockings (my grandma in Newfoundland made Brad one), opening presents and being lazy all day in our PJs until it was prime rib time. My parents gave us wonderful gifts such as a GPS system so we won't get lost anymore, matching valets to go next to our beds to charge our phones and put our jewlery on, Seahawks gear, they made the last payment on our TV that we bought together and so much more. We also recieved a wonderful gift from my sweet godchild Veronica.....a cute picture of her along with a ticket stub letting us know that she'll be my flower girl at our wedding along with my Aunt Nancy, Uncle Brian, and my new cousin baby Maurice who I haven't met yet! I am so excited!

Before we went over to my folks place we celebrated Christmas at our apartment...which is somehting else I have never done. It was wonderful. Brad wrapped all of the presents for me, he said it took him a while, but everything was beautiful. It was exciting to see Brad open his gifts and see him smile. He bought me a beautiful Tiffany and Co. necklace and braclet, I have wanted one for years.....it was perfect. He bought me a yoga mat so I can workout at home, a really cool makeup bag, new fuzzy slippers......he came up with great ideas and truly made this one of the best Christmas I have ever had. I bought him stuff like books that he wanted, Seahawks gear, a book about his great grandmother with a written note from his Grandma Jacoba, and the best of all...a motorcycle. I kept it a secret from everyone, it was so hard not to tell anyone....but I wanted everyone to believe Wil's story of how the bike was already sold. Some people bought it, while others didn't. I'm just happy that Brad has a safer bike than the one he had. I'm hoping he'll buy a seat for the bike so we can go to Oyster Run together next year and take long bike rides together. I'm really excited to make so many more happy memories with him.

This year has been such a blessing in my life. I have found the one whom I was meant to love for the rest of my life, I have been accepted with open arms to my new extended family, I have a beautiful step daughter whose smile lights up my life, I have become best friends with my parents, I have beautiful nieces and nephew who I get to watch grow up, and I have reignited my faith in God. I prayed for so long for my happily ever after and I am so blessed to have recieved it.