All Is Well

Well my sister Stephanie is doing much better. It took a little time but she is finally getting over her pnemoniua. She hasn't had any problems with her pregnancy so far either. On a happy note my youngest sister Jessica gave birth to a healthy baby boy on Feb. 22. His name is Wakefield Martin Wendell Cook. Jessica loves to come us with wonderful long names. She is doing great. I wish I could see her but with her in Florida it just isn't going to happen. I will get to meet my new nephew in July when she comes up to meet my new baby. Speaking of our baby on the way-- We are having an ultrasound on Thursday and hopefully we'll be able to tell what we are having. We are going to take Abbie with us. I don't think Kaleb is ready to sit through something like this but I think Abbie will really like it. I just hope for her sake we are having a girl because she is set on having a little sister.

Life has been very good lately. A little tiring but when you have two kids and a third on the way what do you expect. Justin has recently been demoted back to a Assistant General Manager for Donato's. He's moved to a store he likes a lot better, but it's also on the oppisite side of town. It takes about 50 minutes to an hour to get there. This is just a temporary move to have him work with one of the best GM's in the area. He has interviewed with a couple other places but keeps staying where he is. He is much happier as an AGM than a GM that's for sure. It's been an amazing change for me to watch him. I'm just happy that he's happy. Work for me is going great. It's another quiet morning for me here.

Our church has been under attack by satan though. We have an interesting mix of older, middle age and young adults in our church. Lately it seems that all of the older ones are getting sick. Bill Saar who is a wonderful man and so friendly has recently been diagnosed with Pancreatic cancer. They really don't give him much time. He's in his late 50's early 60's and has only been a christian for a few years. In that time though he has worked with several different ministries telling his story and talking with others. He has worked a lot in the prison ministry here and it's just really hard to watch this man that had such a huge presents when ever he was around, slowly get weaker and thinner and just not be the same. We have a couple other women who have had major surgery lately. One lady had to have surgery last week on one of two brain anurisms they have found. Another has breast cancer. It just seems that so many are sick here. The wonderful thing is that it has brought us all together more. Our church has slowly been growing lately. We are still small compared to most only around 200 on a weekend, but things are good.

I am going to start actually writing more in here again. Well I am going to try to write more. I should probably get back to work for now.

Please Pray

My sister Stephanie just found out that she's 7 weeks pregnant. This was a bit of a surprise to her and her husband since she is on the pill. Back in December she had bronchitis and was on antibiotics that made the pill weaker. Anyway now she is pregnant, but she has pnemounia. They haven't put her in the hospital yet, but they may in the next day or two. If you could just pray for her and the baby I would apprecitate it. This being her first baby and being a bit surprised by it all she hasn't really told many people that she's pregnant. She's worried now about losing the baby or the baby having other problems.

Children

Last night Abbie was sitting on the couch with me watching TV. We were curled up nice and cozy and then she looks up at me. She says, "I love you mommy." I tell her that I love her too. She then tells me that she loves God too because he's her daddy. Not like daddy is her daddy, but God created her and she loves him. I just gave her a big hug and told her that God loves her too. It made me so happy to think that all the things that I have been teaching her and the things she learns during church are finally starting to make sense to her. It was just a wonderful moment.