Good afternoon to everyone! It's September and it sure feels like Fall. I love the change of seasons, the colors, the smells, the clothes, the mood. I have moved my 2 mile early morning walk into the gym downstairs, mostly because I want to add some light weights for my muscles. I am surprised how weak I have become. It's interesting in this process to see surprises arise like that after working out for 25 years. Always something to help us remain humble.


I have been excited for the month of September. Yes, my MRI is coming up this week. We are beginning our family fast Wednesday at noon and ending Thursday at noon. My MRI is Thursday morning. My results with the doctor is Friday morning at 10:00 a.m. All of you who would like to participate are welcome and appreciated. Your faith and prayers mean so much to me. Even those of you who I don't know about. The Lord will acknowledge your effort and will bless us both. I would be grateful for any of you who can make a call into any of the L.D.S. temples and put my name on the prayer rolls. I had a "friend" tell me the other day I should keep all this private "just in case" the results are not in my favor. Less would have to be said and explained in that case. I have responded to this thought before. I know there is always other possibilities to all events but this is how I must look at it and approach it. If you think and worry about what you do not want, believing that is the way to fix it or safeguard yourself, you are fooling yourself. The best way to get what you don't want is to think about it a lot, talk about it alot, and feel worried. It will show up and keep showing up. The best way to give yourself what you do want is to imagine it, get excited about it, allow it to happen, and express gratitude to God when it does. That's our hope!

Some other things that are going on this month that our family is looking forward to is our annual trip to Snowbird, Utah. We have some timeshare units up there in the Little Cottonwood canyon. It's a place our family meets together and shares a week of fun. On top of the excitement this year, our son Judson, who has been serving a mission for our church in Denver Colorado is finishing up his mission. His release date is September 25th. Since we will not be home, his mission president is flying him into Salt Lake to meet us while we are at Snowbird. We can all hardly wait! It has been two years since we have seen him. We get to email him once a week and talk to him twice a year on the phone, on Mother's Day and on Christmas Day. So you can see how special this will be for our family to get him together with us. Having a missionary serving the Lord and standing as a witness of Christ brings such wonderful blessings to a family. I will add our youngest son, Colton is now serving in Guatemala. He has been gone for four months.

In closing I want to leave a scripture out of the Book of Mormon with you.
It is found in 3 Nephi 14:7&8

"Ask, and it shall be given unto you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened."

Our life is good in so many ways. Thank-you for sharing part of you with us!

Love Janae