Snow Day!!!

Today scott and I were lucky enough to have a snow day. The best thing about this is that we were able to spend the day home as a family lounging around in our sweat pants all cuddeled up together. Macie has recently fallen in love with elephants so last night we picked up an elephant figurine family for her to play with since she has gone 3 days without a binky (which for all of you that know macie well, you know how attached she was to that thing) so this was a huge accomplishment for her and we told her she could go to the store and pick out an elephant. So today since we had a snow day we did a family project and made a little house for her elephants out of a shoe box and stuff we cut out from magainzes. Macie loved helping daddy look in magainzes for pictures of flowers and animals to put in her elephant house. After we finished the elephant house we all cleaned up the house and i was able to get a little studying done so that we can have a little free time to hang out this weekend and go do some fun things. Tomorrow macie and I are going to the mall for a free kids day so we will have more pictures then....we hope you all have a great night, stay warm!!!!

Valentines Day!!

Wow its amazing how fast time flies i can't believe it will be march in a few weeks!!! Things have been going great in the cameron household the past week or so macie is talking like crazy and actually starting to put sentences together. Its awesome to watch her because she knows how to make sense of things now and can actually have a conversation with you which is really neat. Sometimes i get sad to think how fast she is growing up and i often wish she could stay this way forever. Scott and I are just busy with school so nothing new with us.

Macie had an amazing week this past week at the babysitters. We are so thankful we found sylvia and know everyday when we drop her off that she will not only be taken care of but that she loves it there. Its funny because even on the weekends now she asks us "we go to babysitters today?" haha. This past thursday on valentines day they had a little party at the babysitters house to celebrate. Macie wore here valentines pants and the shirt here gma pam got her. They had balloons, decorated cookies and macie was able to take some animal valentines she picked out at the store to all her little buddies there. She talked for days about here valentines party and was so excited to tell me all about it when i picked her up and she even made scott and I cookies...one said dad and the other mom that she decorated!!!

That evening after scott got home from school we just hung out and had a nice family dinner. Scott and I went to mansfield last weekend and ate at the olive garden and did a little shopping so we were able to celebrate as a couple a little early. He got me a beautiful vintage style necklace and i suprised him with osu basketball tickets so i think we both enjoyed valentines day and most of all enjoyed remembering how much we love each other and are so blessed by such a great little family:)

Crazyness but we love it!!!!

So its been forever since i have posted on this thing but life has taken us new places in the cameron household and its always nice to give everyone updates i suppose. I am now halfway through my third quarter of nursing school and will be graduating in 17 weeks ( haha trust me i have it counted down to the days even) school has been amazingly stressful but completely awesome at the same time. Every week is full of 3 or more tests and 2 days of clinicals which involve blue books and drug cards (those of you who have been through nursing school know...they are nightmares:)....basically it invovled hours of extra work on wednesday night when your brain is already fried....busyness has taken a new place in my vocabulary this past 7 months, i dont think i truely knew the meaning of being busy till now. I am doing very well and have made national honor society at school which is a shocker i know to all you high school and college buddies. We have eaten more fast food and hamgburger helper these past 7 months than we probably ever will again in our whole lives but i figure there are far worse things in life than that!! lol

Macie is going to an amazing babysitter that she absolutely loves and has even started calling grandma. I can't believe how fast she is growing up and the things that she says and comes up with everyday just amaze me. Sometimes i get sad to think about all the things i am missing out on by being gone at school so much and studying all the time but then i am reminded that its her that i am doing this for and her little body is what helps me keep pressing forward on those days i feel tired and want to give up. If there is anything she gets out of this as she gets older i really hope its that she saw how hard her mommy and daddy worked to make a better life for her because we love her so much!!!

I can't even put it into words how thankful i am for scott. I dont think i could have asked for a better husband or father for macie. He is so in love with macie and the way that he imerses himself in her life is completely awesome. I am amazed at how hard he works going to school all day and volunteering at church and he still finds it in himself to tutor kids 3 or 4 days a week because he really cares about his students. I know that things have been hard for him also this past 7 months but he has stepped up and helped me with the house and sacrificed so many things to make things easier for me and i know when i am done in june that diploma will be his just as much as mine.

I have learned a huge lesson these past 7 months outside of nursing and that is love. I have never been more in love with my husband than now. We have had a tough year full of sacrifices and struggles but ultimately we have clung to each other and to God's wisdom and faithfulness and ultimately taken the battles set before us head on as a team. I would never have imagined why God put such an amazing self sacrificing, hard working, loving man in my life but i am thankful he is all mine for this valentines day and many more!!!!

So basically life is crazyness in the cameron household but we wouldnt have it any other way!!!!!!