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✨2025✨- A year full of love, late nights, happy tears, and unforgettable celebrations.

Thank you to every couple who made 2025 one for the books.

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One year ago today, I heard the word that shattered my world—

Cancer.

Kai woke up in the middle of the night with unbearable leg pain. By morning, he couldn’t walk and had a slew of strange symptoms. My dad cradled him and carried him to his truck and laid him across the backseat because sitting up hurt too much. I was terrified but convinced it was meningitis.

At the hospital, I overheard a nurse say, “5% abnormality on his blood test.” I had no idea what it meant, but I stayed off Google and waited. Then the doctor took me into another room. I was bracing for the word meningitis. Instead, I heard cancer. Leukemia. It felt like someone grabbed me by the throat. The air left my lungs. I gasped, shook my head, and spiraled. Thinking…”My baby has cancer. My baby could die. Cancer means death.” 
Death was the one word stuck in my head.

The first person I called wasn’t Kai’s dad, wasn’t my husband….it was my dad. Through sobs…I cried out “They said he has cancer.” On the other end, I heard him break: “Oh my God…” Maybe I called him because he had always been my person that fixed things…the one who made things better. But this? This couldn’t be fixed.

I FaceTimed Kai’s dad so he could hear the diagnosis from the doctor. He stayed so calm while I was falling apart. But looking back, I know—he was spiraling too. He just held it differently.

That day, our lives changed forever. We had no idea what this diagnosis would bring….the fear, the pain, the strength we’d have to find. But here we are….one year later, and Kai is THRIVING.

Cancer completely shook our world, but it did not break us.

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