About 30 seconds after being announced Mr. and Mrs. Neil Weems!

Finally!

10 years ago today, I married my best friend. I had waited a long two years to finally marry him. I know we were young, but I knew the minute I laid eyes on him he would be my husband. (Ask my mom if you don't believe me.)


I could not wait until our wedding. It was a LONG summer. There were a lot of things going on in my family that put a shadow over the wedding, but by the time August rolled around, I didn't care about anything but marring the man of my dreams. The day was perfect, and even though it was August the weather was beautiful. It had sprinkled on our rehearsal, and then stayed cool for the next day. We had the pleasure of my grandfather performing the ceremony. He did my parents wedding and Isaac and Sabrina's wedding. After the ceremony, my grandfather read letters that our parents wrote us, and as we kissed our first kiss as husband and wife my two brothers shot off fireworks over us. It was just perfect! The next hour at the reception flew and before I knew it, Neil was asking if I was ready to go. I loved the party, but I couldn't wait to start the honeymoon!



Neil and I met at Leadership Camp on August 9, 1997. Actually, we met at Southwest Church of Christ in Amarillo, where all the youth groups meet up to travel to camp together. I shook his hand, said I had heard a lot about him, and then sat on the sidewalk with Candice whispering about how cute he was. We talked all weekend at camp, we had our first kiss the night of the big hike, we said goodbye the next day and I thought, well, now what? That night, I told my mom I didn't want to talk to anyone. My boyfriend called and Mom said "she's busy." And then, I was taking a bath, and my mom knocks on the door and says, "Camie, there's a boy on the phone asking to talk to you. And it's not **** (the other guy)." I flew out of the tub, grabbed a towel, and flew to the phone. And of course it was Neil. We talked for a while, with me dripping on the carpet. And the rest, as they say is history. Neil went broke calling me, I spent what little I had calling him, we saw each other whenever we could, and two years to the day that we met, we married.

We have been so blessed with a love only God could have put together, two beautiful little girls, and so much more.

Neil, I love you more and more everyday. I know that the day I was made, God had you in mind for me. God has blessed me more than I could have ever imagined! Thank you for being such a hard worker, sensitive man, good Christian, and such a wonderful daddy. Our girls couldn't have asked for a better daddy!

Happy anniversary! I'm looking forward to many more!

LILY LOST HER FIRST TOOTH!!!

My baby is losing her babiness. Is that a word? Anyway, she has had a couple of loose teeth for a while now. She was very excited about it at first. The tooth fairy was awesome and she couldn't wait! But....the closer it got to actually having to lose her tooth, the more upset she got. The other day, I had her sitting on my lap and I was wiggling it trying to sneakingly pull it out. But it just wasn't happening.


First of all, I didn't have the guts to give it a good tug. I had this problem with Emma's first tooth and ended up taking her to the school nurse who just grabbed it and handed it to Emma. Secondly, she was soooooooooo upset. I know I shouldn't laugh, but it was so funny! We have it on video, but blogger doesn't like me and my videos, so I have to work on that, but here's her picture.


I mean, she was upset! I thought she was just scared to lose it, but then she told me between sobs, "My tongue...sniff, sniff...is sad...sniff, sniff...because...sniff, sniff...it likes...sniff, sniff...to play...sniff, sniff...with it." Awwww! Poor tongue! So, I finally left her alone, and let her tongue have one more day to play with its mate. But, the next day, Neil had the great idea of having her eat a popsicle and then playing with the tooth. As soon as she finished with the popsicle, Neil asked to wiggle her tooth some, and out it came. And she was so excited this time! Her tongue apparently got over its loss pretty quickly! But, I was thrilled she was all smiles. And a little sad that another milestone is now past.

Happy girl putting her tooth under her pillow for the tooth fairy.

She was a little unsure about the tooth fairy visiting her, but I reassured her that she was fine and completely not scary. She fell fast asleep and woke be up bright and early at 7:15 ish, so excited that the tooth fairy had left her some money and a note. She carried it all around all day.

I love being a mommy to my two sweet girls!

Poor Neil

Neil has been working extra this last month, so we haven't seen him much, which puts me in a slump. Don't get me wrong, I really appreciate his hard work! I just hate when we don't get to see him as much. So, when he wanted to go to the lake last Monday, I couldn't tell him no. When we got there, we had a blast! I asked why he wanted to come and he said that "You are happiest around water." I thought that was the sweetest thing. I may be grumpy, but once we hit the water we are all having a ball. Anyway, on to poor Neil. I asked when we got there if he wanted me to put sunscreen on his back. He said not yet. So, about an hour later, he gets out and finally puts some on himself. When we woke up the next morning, this is what we saw.

Do you think he waited too long? It was so funny, because the top quarter of his back wasn't sunburned just the bottom, where he couldn't reach. I don't know why he didn't ask me to help.
Poor thing! He was hurting so bad. After a few days, it was still very red, but didn't hurt as bad, so we all had fun with it. Ha!

I cringed with this one. Ouch!

He said the smile hurt. And...... we kept doing it.


I think this was the cap to my beloved Advil. ;)


My foot... yea, I know it's big, hush!


Neil's hands.


He is healed now. And I think he learned a valuable lesson. He needs longer arms. ;)