December 4th, 2004

6 years ago today, on December 4th, 2005, I was wed to the love of my life, Michael Scott Cameron Jr. It was the best decision I could have ever made in my life. My husband is my best friend and an amazing father to our children. I got lucky...he is a romantic. Through out the years on our anniversaries he goes to great lengths to plan in depth and detail these amazing date nights. One time he rented out a local skating rink at night and he took me dancing there to music..just the two of us. Another time it was to see a Christmas symphony orchestra and take a romantic walk. I love that he does this but before hand he will sneak around and plan things for days and it drives me crazy trying to figure out what in the world is going on. Well he started doing all this sneaking around and planning a couple of days ago. All I knew was that at 5:00pm our friends Ted and Holly were going to watch our boys for us so we could go on a date night (which is very very rare). He was still leaving and arranging things when I woke up this morning. When he got home with the boys around 9:00am he made bacon, eggs, and toast. A wonderful breakfest to start the celebration of our 6 year anniversary. And then it happened. The first of many, Keegan our 3 year old (sorry for the graphic detail) spewed his eggs all over the kitchen table. Scott and I just looked at eachother thinking "okay maybe he gagged"..because Keegan sometimes tends to gag on food and spit it up. Then we heard the dreaded words "my tummy hurts." We overlooked it not thinking Keegan was feeling that bad because at this point he was still running around the house playing with Kaid. Scott told us the first festivity of the day. We would be going to Wassil Day! He then explained to us what in the world Wassil Day even was. It is a Christmas celebration at Cold Spring Village, which is a village remake of the 1800's era, and that they would have St. Nicholas there. Now we don't do Santa at our house. We really want to keep the focus on Christmas being about Jesus birth and that He was the greatest gift of all. Since Kaid has been going to preschool and watching Christmas movies he keeps asking who and what santa and rudolph are all about. We explained to him St. Nicholas or Santa was a man that lived long ago who did nice things for children in his town that didn't have any presents. That he made the children presents and took them to them. So Scott wanted to celebrate the first part of our anniversary with our kids, by taking Kaid and Keegan to see who this St. Nicholas was all about and hear him tell stories about helping the kids long ago. So the boys were all excited and Scott was getting the car ready. And then together in unison both Keegan AND Kaiden started gagging and throwing up on the kitchen floor. I stood in shock for a second not knowing which one to help first..so panicking I banged on the window for scott to come inside and then I grabbed towels and wipes and started cleaning up my sick little boys. Into pajamas they went and on the couch with a movie with throw up buckets by their side. Many many times throughout the day those buckets were used. Scott told me of his plans he had for our date later that night..which sounded amazing. Instead we stayed home with our stomach flu sick boys, instead we had take out subs for dinner. And I saw the beauty in it all. This is what it means to be married for 6 years. To be with the ones you love no matter what the cicumstances. When things don't always turn out right. To love and care for eachother when we are sick. I loved today..December 4, 2010. I wouldn't have changed it for the world. I do think we will look back and have a good laugh about how Scott planned so hard and long to pull of our 6 year anniversary and how it really turned out! And most of all I just really want to say, I love Scott Cameron, end of story.
PS. It's 12:00 am and NOW Scott has the stomach flu! not fun at all!

Project Hopefull

There is this amazing organization called project hopefull that advocates for orphaned children who are HIV+. They created this awesome video to inform people about the diffrences between HIV and Aids.

Because people need to know

I grabbed this video from my mother in law, Faith's blog....it is awesome and everyone should watch it. They are in the process of adopting a little boy from Liberia. This video is for Gborlee.