Our Story
On March 20, 2005, Keanna N. Scott visited St. Luke Missionary Baptist Church in Huntsville, AL in an effort to regain a piece of her that she felt had been lost during her one year relationship. While at the church she was seated by an usher next to a slender young man who happened to not have his bible with him at church. Never making eye contact or directly speaking to the young man she shared her bible with the young man when the congregation was asked to stand for the reading of the scripture. During alter call she went to the front of the church like many other people to stand and pray in a congregational prayer. She just so happened to be standing next to and holding hands with the young man who was sitting near her. A chill went up her back when she touched the young man’s hand. After church she walked across the street to her apartment to find her boyfriend was not home. She called her mother and told her about her experience at church. She mentioned that during prayer the young man sitting next to her had such a spirit about him that she wishes she could bottle just an ounce of it and put it in her current boyfriend. Little did she know that a year latter she would be engaged to that young man and within 2 months of their engagement she would be getting married to him.
Kevin and Keanna officially met on February 5, 2006 after church as Keanna was looking for one of the ministers to ask if there was going to be a meeting that day. After wondering around the church until almost no one was left I decided to go home. It just so happened that “this guy I always saw around church” was still at the church. I boldly stated to the young man “I see you around church all the time and at bible study and even speak to you but I must admit I have no clue what you name is, so what is your name?” Kevin replied, “My name is Kevin J. Houston” as he pulled a pen out of his suit jacket and handed to me. “Cool” I said. “That way you won’t forget” Kevin said. “Well my name is Keanna, nice to meet you” I said as she began walking toward the door to walk home. As she walked across the parking lot, Kevin stopped and said “where are you going, I can’t have you walking from church.” I said, “I’m just going across the street to my house, I’ll be fine. Thanks anyway.” That night as I was looking at the pen that he had given me “I wonder if that guy was flirting with me or trying to get my business since this is a pen advertisement?” I thought about it for a while and then decided to send “that guy” an e-mail. Kevin and Keanna began communicating via e-mail for a few weeks speaking just about every day via e-mail. At one time Kevin asked me “why don’t you just call me” and I quickly responded “I will never call you…if you want to talk to me you can call me, you got the number.” After Kevin and I started to talk via e-mail and on the phone more often he asked me to dinner and I said no thanks. He said why and I didn’t have a good reason. I wasn’t really interested in him once he told me he was 11 years older than me. I guess he figured I would get over and told me “well, damn it, you have to eat eventually! If you want to pay for yourself that’s fine, I’m just trying to sit down with you face to face and have a conversation rather than talking on the phone and through the computer all the time.” I couldn’t believe he was talking to me like that. Needless to say I went to dinner with him and spent every day after that with him. Kevin and I began dating on March 3, 2006. On March 18, 2006 we got engaged and on April 29, 2006 we were married in front of God (with no guest) by Kevin’s brother-in-law Lo in the home of Lo and his sister Vida.
I know you are thinking…wow you guys didn’t waste any time. When I met Kevin he weighed roughly 113 lbs and was nothing but skin and bones (not my normal tall, thick, light skinned, thug brother). Kevin had something special about him that for some reason I couldn’t resist and couldn’t run from. When I met Kevin I had no clue he was sick and really didn’t know much about it until he asked me to take him to the hospital for his annual testing and we told that he would have to have surgery. For some reason the nurses all thought I was related to him or I was his wife but I really was just a girl friend at the time and had no clue I would be marrying this man. Because I liked Kevin (I wasn’t totally in love with him at this time because we had just started dating) I stuck by him through the doctor’s visit and the hospital stay (even though I was terrified and wanted to just go home and get in the bed). While Kevin was in the hospital we had lots of time to just sit and talk when he wasn’t delirious from the Morphine. I grew to love Kevin more and more between March and April when he went to the hospital for his surgery. I spent time with his mother and daughter when they were here and spent time with him every day. When Kevin asked me to marry him, I thought he was kidding, until we picked out the ring. I was a little caught off guard but knew I wanted to be with him so it didn’t matter. I didn’t know I would be marrying him just over a month later because the wedding was planned for a year later but when God says move you move. On the last day of Kevin’s hospital stay we had a really intimate discussion and Kevin decided that he didn’t want to wait any longer to marry me and he didn’t want to take the chance of losing me when I moved back to Virginia the following month. I was a little hesitant because I thought we needed more time to learn each other but God comforted me and all I asked is that he ask my mother for her blessing. Kevin and I were married on April 29, 2006 in Birmingham, AL (just one day after he had gotten out of the hospital from surgery). It was such a lovely day and I remember after we got married I met his family for the first time. I thought for sure they would look at me like I was crazy but they were surprisingly very accepting. Kevin and I have been married now for about a year and we are happy to be celebrating our love with our friends and family. We chose to have this “Celebration of Love” not only to allow the families to share in our joyous union but also to allow the families to meet for the first time. My family surprised me when the openly accepted Kevin and remind me every chance they get how much they like him. Kevin’s family treats me like I have been a part of the family for years and I have not once felt like I was out of place. The story of Kevin and I is not a new story but rather the beginning of a journey into life together. From the very beginning God had ordained us to meet and fall in love. Even when there were times when we may have thought we weren’t supposed to be together God stayed right in the midst of it. God has been an important part of our lives both individually and collectively and we know that with out Him we would not be together now. God has truly blessed us with loving family and a network of positive people. In our short time being married we have accomplished many things from starting our own business (K & K Houston, LLC – www.kkhouston.com) to publishing a book (Simple Complexity – www.uneekpoetry.com). Our dreams are coming true every day and we hope to start building our dynasty in the next few years. Where this journey will end for us, we don’t know…but we sure are going to enjoy the ride.
The journey continues…
–May 2007