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.

Insurance

In the last few months Justin and I have really gotten to know our car insurance agent. With the van being stolen and claiming the things inside of it and now I rearended someone on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. I was driving Justin's car and it was raining and you know how that goes. His tires suck and I just slide into the car infront of me. Luckily the lady I hit was very friendly we didn't even involve the police. We also found out that we have the same insurance agent. We are very lucky that our insurance hasn't decided they've had enough of us. We actually got a call on Friday that they found our van about 3 miles from where it was stolen. It was in a gas station parking lot, but it hadn't been there the whole time. It's not ours anymore though. We had to sign it over to State Farm before they would pay it off. We are looking now at what things were inside and if we can get any of that back. Life is so strange sometimes.

Please pray for Justin. He is on probation at work. He could actually loose his job as soon as Dec. 20. I am really not worried about the job stuff. I know that God will take care of us and everything will be fine. I just worry about Justin. He is so discouraged right now. He's been trying so hard for a company that he feels just doesn't want to see him do well. I just want him to find something that he wants to do and may allow a little more time for us as a family.

I am still loving my job. I work with 3 great men who don't always get me what they need to on time, but appreciate and tell me so all the time. Abbie and Kaleb are doing great. Kaleb is a very sneaky 2 year old who will get into everything he shouldn't the moment my head is turned. Abbie has a few imaginary friends that she plays with everyday. She also has a split personallity named Donna. When she's Donna she refers to Justin and I as Jennifer and Justin not mom and dad. Abbie is excited about me having another baby. She can't decide if she wants another brother or a sister. She wants a sister that she can share her clothes with. She's deffinately a girl. I think Kaleb would like a brother so he could have a good wrestling buddy that doesn't cry all the time.

What's been happening

Not too much has happened since the last time I blogged. Work has been busy. We are in the middle of a building campaign to build a new sanctuary. The one we currently have hold a little more than 200 people and we are growing out of it. We are only going to build one that will hold 450. The building is over 30 years old. They are going to make the old sanctuary into classrooms eventually. Nothing is going to happen still for a couple of years. We are still in the begining stages. I have also grown to really love some of the older people that come here.

After fighting with our insurance company we were able to get them to pay off our car loan plus some. We now have a 2000 Mazda MPV which I love. It is a much better van than what we had. So in the end I guess it wasn't so bad having my van stolen. Although I will forever be much more careful.

Justin and I have also learned that we will be having a third child. I am only 6 weeks pregnant and still haven't told my boss yet, but we are excited. We are looking at a July 6 due date. Of cource with having a planned c-section that could be earlier. We are very happy though. This will be the first time my family will get to expierence me through an entire pregnancy. My sister Jessica is having her third child in March. Which Kaleb and her son Paxton are 2 months apart and these two will be 3 or 4 months apart.

God has been so good to us. I've stopped focusing so much on the problems and I have just been enjoying the good things. Justin feels like he has finally found the reason why he is at Donatos. He has really been trying to be more of a witness to his crew without getting himself in troble. There is one girl there that he feels he really needs to just talk with her. She's 18 and has a little girl who's almost 1. She's really trying to find herself and she's not hanging out with the greatest of people. Mainly most of Justin's staff. Their from Kentucky what can I say.

Kaleb has his 2 year check up today. I am interested to see where he is on the charts. Not that I care so much it's just that Kaleb is much bigger than most 2 year olds. We brought him down to the 2's and 3's class on Sunday and he's bigger than some of the 3 year olds. He is deffinately looking at playing football, especially if his daddy has anything to say about it. Abbie has definately proven she is a girl. She is a true drama queen, but you love her anyway. She has a way of just saying things so matter of factly. We are thinking about putting her in preschool starting in January. Just 2 days a week. She really wants to learn as much as she can and I just don't feel like I can teach her. I don't have the patience for it. Justin works with her some now, but she wants more. I don't want to stop her from learning.