The Challenge: Day 3

My first love?  I guess it would have to be Charlie...  I say it like that because the memory of him is so far away it's almost like a bad dream.  We met when I moved to Missouri at the end of my Junior year and dated off and on for almost 2 years.  We decided to get married after my parents voiced their opinions about living together before marriage.  We were 18 when he proposed and I had just turned 19 when we got married.  When Curtis asks me about our wedding I tell him it was like playing dress up.  I wasn't excited.  I wasn't nervous.  I just did it.  That sounds horrible but I really did love him.

My mom, me and Mamzie at my wedding.

Our first year of marriage we lived with my grandmother because we needed a cheap place to live and she needed the help.  It was a horrible year.  He worked and went to school every day while I stayed at home and took care of Mamzie and her small business.  We fought all the time.  Right after our first anniversary, I found out I was pregnant.  My little Kennin was on her way.  I remember having a fight with Charlie one day when we were packing to leave the house.  I was huge pregnant and I needed help getting all the bags down stairs and into the car and Charlie wouldn't get up to help me.  I vividly remember thinking, this is what my life is going to be like, I wont have any help.  And that's how it was.

Kennin's first Christmas

We moved into an apartment soon after, then we bought our first house soon after that.  Kennin was 2 by this point and I started talking about having another baby because I wanted her to have a sibling.  Soon Grayson was on the way.  I was excited, Charlie was excited, and so was Kennin.  When I was about 8 months pregnant with Gray I found out he cheated.  We were divorced 10 months later.

Right after we moved into our house.

I skipped a lot of this story but lets face it, it's old news.  I'm not mad anymore.  It wasn't just him, it was me as well.  We were too young and immature to be married.  I moved on AND I get to have this kind of happiness now...

And these HILARIOUS kids!

(I didn't pose them, they just walked out of their room and put on a show for me)