Quick update....

Just a quick update. Noting new really happening in our world. I just wanted to thank Mom & Dad for their hospitality and for letting us stay with them and share their space and time. Thanks also for making Jessica feel just like one of my kids! :) We had a good time visiting with Mom & Dad and Richard and Julie over this last weekend. We got to go out to the glitter pit and dig for more rocks. My "boys" Chet and Ford were in the heights of heaven. They both love to dig! (hence Chet's tractor)

We got to go out and visit with April and her family too and we even went out to dinner with them, and Mom & Dad went out with Richard and Julie. All in all even though it was a short visit, it was a good one. I hope that we will be able to do it again soon!

Also I want to thank Steve and Dad again for the blessing! I am so grateful for the blessing of the priesthood in my life and for the faith I have in it.

Looking forward to Steve and Jenni being closer to us within the week! Yeah!

I love you all and hope you are all doing well!

Jana & Family

HI MY FAMILY!!

I hope that everyone is well and happy.. As for Mom and I we are doing good no great pains to report, just the same ole little ones that keeps reminding me that Im'still just a kid with lot's of life to live yet.. Today I got to go shopping for Mom valentine gift and card.. I didn't do to bad.I got her a spring jacket,pants and top..she liked it all but a couple of things did not work out .. She exchanged the pants and top. 2 out of 3 isn't too bad is it? This weekend we are having Jan and her family are coming down for a short visit..also Richard and Julie,are planning to come for the week end if he dosen't get called out by his work.. Stephen and his famly will also be in St George, this week as the are moveing up to Salt Lake City to complete their last internship ship for school. Then he will graduate on May 22,2010.. It has been a pretty fast time these past 4 years.. He is still looking for a job when he is all done. I ask the blessing of the Lord to guide him to find the situation best suited for him and his family..We took Lilly to the Vets for her shots and check up she is in good health.. We ask him how much he would charge us to spay her .. to clean her teeth and Spay her they want $380.00. we won't be using those folks ..Jan and Chet gave me a book on CD' for christmas..The Lightning Thief, I see that a movie has just been made so I guess I will go see the movie to see how the book may end.. It has been fun listening and ended very fast.. will you folk please take care, and enjoy life to the utmost and take time to smell the flowers on you way.. Love you all Very much Dad

Last call from Arizona

Things are winding down for us here in AZ and we are getting stressed about the move up to SLC. I don't look forward to the cold. We are also still looking for a job to pay back all our debt, and we are considering joining the air force as an optometrist. Crazy, I know, two Captain Martins in the same family. But we haven't reached any decisions yet, other than the fact that I would rather join up than work at America's Best! We are still alive, and for the most part pretty good. Jenni has started feeling anxious again, so we are dealing with that. Other than that, just living live.
Hope you are all well, and would love to have David's opinion of what he things of the air force, if he would return my call!
See you all in SLC in about 2 weeks.

Parker Update

Okay not to much to say but here goes anyway.

Megan is doing as little as she has to in everyday life just to scrape by. She is in a major funk and I hope we can find a way to get her out of it ASAP! She is working on things in her own way depending on the day.

Ford let his grades slip a little in the last term which resulted in his missing the last 2 swim meets of the season. Sad for him and his Mom. I have really been enjoying them. I get a little excited though I have to admit. Now the goal is to keep grades up for the rest of the year so that he can be on the team again next year. That's the goal. Oh ya, and he got a job!!! He works at Iceberg drive in, in Syracuse.

Megan's friend Jessica has been living with us now since New Years. It has been an adjustment having someone with a totally different background and up bringing living here and making the adjustments on both sides so that we can all be happy. All in all I think it has been a good thing. She and Megan are sharing a bedroom and it is a little cramped but I think it has been good for both of them.

Chet was working a crazy lot of hours there for a while, but now seems to either be caught up a little bit or to be just worn down enough or both, to not be working so many hours. He and I have been spending time together when we can to get back some of what has been missing.

I am still working at the school, not making any money, but eh, oh well right? Everyone is healthy for the moment so what more could we ask for? (don't say a word!)

I think I will be going out for a managers job if one comes available, so if I could ask that you all keep me in your prayers a little bit I would be grateful!

I would love to know how things in all of your worlds are going, since we don't get to see each other nearly often enough. Please at least drop a note telling me (everyone) you are all alive. Life is crazy busy I know, but it would be nice for even a hello. Love and miss you all. Hope life is treating you good. Love Jana & family

HAPPY MONTH

HI! everyone, I hope that everyone is feeling good and that those who have had surgery or will be having surgery will recover quickly.. Dave I hope your mouth is feeling better and you are able to talk a little more after four or five days.. This is a happy month because Jan, and Dave had their birthdays I hope they had a good day... One other reason this is a happy month is because Chris has employment he starrted last Monday... Our weather has been wet and cool but we welcome the water our area has received.. Lilly has a tough going outside when it's raining so when it rains she has to be kept on the back porch until we get home.. She is having another problem she does not like me to leave her home.. Joy next door to us called to report she was out of the yard but she put her back in the house.. the next day she got out by crawling undr the back gate.. I received a call from a lady out walking her young kids and ask if I had a dog named Lilly? I said yes ! she told me she had followed them on their walk and was about 2 blocks away I drove up and found where they were and called to Lilly who jump right into the truck with me.. But the little boy told his mother I want to keep the doggie and take it home. Well I left again to day and Joy, told me she heard Lilly out back crying and trying to get under the gate.. she could not because I put a gallon can of paint there to block he space.. So until Mom and I can think about a solution to that problem I will have to block her on the back porch when I leave.. Well I shold close as it is getting late and Mom and I have to get up early and get ready to get Mom over to the old hospial for a minor surgery.. She is having the port, removed she used when she was being treated for her lung condition.. We Love all of you very much.. and proud of Steve for how well he did in passing his second set of boards.Way too go big Boy..

Kids do the darnedst things

Here's a quick update from phoenix. Just having fun helping our brave servicemen and women see better and getting a lot more out of this rotation than I had planned.
Katie lost her other lower front tooth and has the cutest little toothless grin you could imagine. The other day Katie was pretending to be a waitress for the family and she said not to laugh at her because she was just woman without a husband.
Ryan has recently discovered that he likes Elmo and calls his show La La while elmo is also La La at different times and Elmo on others. He is Katie's little parrot and copies her as much as he can.

Jenni and I are on a diet trying to lose weight and so far we are at least heading in the right direction.
Hope you are all doing well. We will see you guys in 4 weeks in SLC.

Not much to say

I guess over the last month or better I really haven't had much to say. Not much has changed in that direction either, but I wanted to drop you all a line and tell you all that you are on my mind and in my prayers always.

I do have a couple of up dates. Ford is still on the swim team and he is making fantastic person strides! In the last two meets he finished first in one of his events both days. It is exciting to watch him improve and get faster. I sure I am really funny to watch as I watch him swim. I can't help getting excited and jumping around a little bit. I think this has been almost as fun for me, as for him.

Also on the Ford up date. He is now officially employed. He is working at the new Iceberg restaurant they built in Syracuse. He started training the week after Christmas in Bountiful. Let me tell you, I am SO glad that they finally got the Syracuse store open and he no longer is making the trek to Bountiful. That is a really long drive. (not to mention, it takes a lot of fuel)

Megan is still trying to work towards her graduation and still working at Subway in Riverdale.

Chet is still working his guts out for Airserv and being totally under appreciated as usual.

I am still doing the lunch lady thing but have decided once again that I will be looking into the managers job this year. It is time for me to do something that will make me stretch a little bit. So here we go. Again I love you all, and hope everything is going well for you all.