Been a while....

LOTS to tell too. We've been busy. Our holidays were great. We had family and friends to share them with. The kids had a great time and got everything on their wishlists. Rhiannon was very excited to get some fur real pets from Granddaddy and a sewing machine from Nana and Papa. She was also excited to get a beautiful sweater that my mom made her. She was happy to get a card making kit with tons of stuff for embellishing cards. She also got a great Hannah Montana game for the Wii that she got right to playing! Connor was thrilled to get a chess board and some Wii games. He was also very happy to get the boys easy bake oven that makes creepy crawly bugs. It soon stopped working but all the stuff works in other things. He also got a digital camera from Nana, Papa, Mommy and Tommy and he was IN LOVE. He is thrilled to take pics of whatever he can! Alanna was on cloud nine with her diney faeries toy. She also got a tinkerbell alarm clock from Granddaddy. She was super excited to play with her new fancy nancy game too! There were almost 60 toys in my house on Christmas day and I have to say, we were all very happy and had a great day.

Soon after Christmas, January 10th, Me and all the kids got baptized! It was a glorious event that took place. It made me very happy. We are all within the body of Christ and within his Grace always. It makes me feel at peace to know I have done something right for me and my kids that no one can take away. I hope everyone can find that somewhere. We had all of our family and friends there. It was wonderful. We had a small get together afterwards at my parents house and it was very pleasant. The church makes banners for each of the baptized and we hung them in our foyer. Now everyone will be able to smile at them when they enter our home.

On a more somber note, Bill is getting worse and was back in the hospital for a week. His pain is becoming less managable. They moved him back to the rehab. center he has been staying at but he is having a harder time. It is a sad fact that the end is in fact in sight. He is at peace and embracing his immanet passing quite gracefully but it doesn't make it less sad. Will and I are trying to talk to Connor about it more regularly and remind him that Granddaddy will not get better. Connor has been hoping that he will and this is just not possible as the cancer has spread to the bones and is overtaking his body at an alarming rate. We can only hope for as much comfort as possible now. And that is where we have been lately.

Love and Hugs to you all!

Chelley