My Surprise Gift

For Christmas this year I got a very special surprise gift from my husband. Not only was it a surprise gift but it was the first Christmas gift he has every given me. My husband grew up in a religion where they did not celebrate Christmas. Say What..... Yes very different from the way I grew up. It was a struggle the first Christmas we had together as he did not really want anything more than a tiny Christmas tree. Tooth and Nail I barked at him about it. Little by little every year he has come around. This year he participated from holiday cheer to gift giving to Christmas specials on Tv, to the magic of Santa without complaining. I could not understand this year why he was fixated on wanting to buy the kids presents from him. Everything to me was either from Santa or from Mom and Dad but he just had to have his gifts to the kids. Ok I guess. I see that it is a big step for him and I finally understood him. After all the kids Christmas gifts were unwrapped he asked me what Santa had brought me. I was like um you were there you opened up our gift from Mom and Dad. He said no what else did you get from Santa. I said nothing. Then a bit panic looking he said i put it right with the other gifts down stairs in the basement. LOL. He had them in the wrong gift pile. Silly him. He brings up this bag for me. A little shy because he has never gotten me anything before for Christmas I opened it. I pulled out this very cute wrapped Jared's box. In it was a beautiful Aquamarine and Diamond Necklace. I love it. Its just beautiful.

First Big Snow Of The Winter

Finally its here. The First Big Snow of the Winter Season. I have been waiting for this since June. We have been teased a few times with the possibility of snow showers over the past month but nothing has transpired. Last night coming home from the grocery store the snow started in. My hubby and I sat up in bed watching it come down like a small blizzard for a while. I was so excited as I wanted to take the kids out sledding and to make snowmen. We were out by 10 am in the snow. We went sledding, tried to make snowmen as its not snow packing snow :( went for a snow nature hike in the woods, making snow angles. Yippee. I love the snow.