Hello ALL!

Well it finally happened-Frank and I are officially grown-up. HUH? Not the fact that we have two children,jobs, lots of bills, the fact that I can't stay awake past 11:30 P.M. Nope-none of them is the reason I now consider us grown-up. Frank, bless my husband's generous heart, bought a coffee machine!!! I now wake up to the wonderful, full-bodied, smell of coffee. Up until a few years ago I wasn't a coffee drinker, but I just can't drink diet pop in the mornings anymore, but definitely need a caffeine fix-so I've been getting coffee on the way to work or doctoring up coffee from work. I don't add a lot of "fixings" to my coffee, but my taste buds require the addition of chocolate milk or skim milk and sometimes cocoa mix to regular coffee. So sad to see youth slip past us, but it's official now. We're grown up.

Cannon makes me so mad sometimes!!!,but the past few nights while doing family devotions Cannon has closed the devotional time in prayer. That boy can pray I tell you! ; it's been heartfelt confessions of , "Please help me make peace with James (a bully at school) or at least make the best of things with James". In the same night's prayers he said, "Here we are God please use us for your work and your glory"- oh my. I about cried.

Then little Jewel prays for, "baby Alex to get here soon, for the 2nd Elizabeth to arrive safely and healthy (she has a cousin names Elizabeth and a good friend whose mom is pregnant with a girl whom they've names Elizabeth) and that Katie will be okay and share and not get jealous, and for the surprise baby (her aunt and uncle are expecting a baby,but they're not finding out the baby's gender so Jewel's decided to refer to the baby as a surprise baby until it's arrival. When she asked if the baby would be a boy or a girl I told her Aunt Mary had decided not to find out. "Oh so it can be a surprise!" Jewel replied, but I didn't know she would refer to the baby in her prayers as the "surprise" baby.) So hard not to laugh.

That's all I know for today. Please include in your prayers a the family of a soldier from Ogden, Dan S. who was killed by a road side bomb last night in Iraq. Also a friend's nephew, 2 yrs. old, who died last week from a brain tumor and another friend's step-niece who committed suicide at the young age of 21 yrs.

More later...

Jennifer