IT'S A GIRL!!!

Kambry Faith is here. Kevin and Tenille have a daughter who has already wrapped them around her small fingers. I went over tonight to visit them and meet my new niece. It was their first day together as a family. Kambry is adorable!! It was so wonderful to see a change in Kevin and Tenille as they were with her. Of course, with all the family there tonight, they didn't have her a lot. Poor little Kambry was passed around so that we each had time to hold her and love on her, including her little cousins. We all love her so much! I wish I could fully express my thanks to her birth mother. She is one courageous young woman. She has given the greatest gift of love that one person can give to another and with that beautiful gift a hole was filled for Kevin and Tenille.

Here are a couple of pictures that Kev sent me of Kambry. She has black hair, skinny legs and arms, and very long fingers and toes. Tenille said, "Look at these." (She was showing me how long Kambry's toes are.) "She has toes like Kevin!" We all laughed at how great that was and then I told her that I was sure Kevin would show Kambry exactly how to pinch with them. She agreed. It was funny!

Congratulations Kevin and Tenille!!!

General Conference

Just a quick note...

General Conference is tomorrow and Sunday. I love General Conference! For six long months, I look forward to it. I love listening to the messages which seem like they are tailor-made for me. I am lucky enough to be able to be there. Yes, the crowds, parking, protesters, security lines, and waiting are not all that fun, but it is so worth it to be there in the Conference Center. To be surrounded by so many of one heart and mind, it's wonderful! The Spirit is so strong. I love people watching while in there. Watching everyone interact with each other. Meeting and greeting, mixing and mingling before the session. During the meeting, no interruptions: phones are off, no distractions, total focus. It's great!!

I will post my some of what touched me next week. If you had any thoughts, I love to hear them.

A Crazy Moment

OK, so anyone that knows me knows that I don't exactly sleep through the night solidly (unfortunately). Well, I had a crazy moment the other day:

Wednesday morning I awoke to my alarm. I laid in bed weighing in my mind which was stronger: the need to take a shower or the need to stay in my comfortable, warm bed. I eventually decided to bite the bullet and go take a shower. I was so awake. Felt better than I had in weeks. I went and took a great shower. Stayed it a bit longer than usual. I was awake and looking forward to the day.

When I got out, I went over to look at my clock on my nightstand. "7:25" I panicked. It couldn't be 7:25. I mean, after all, I know I enjoying my shower so I took longer than normal, but I wasn't in there for 2 full hours. Sheesh, I would have been very pruney. I looked a bit closer at my clock. It didn't say 7:25... it said 1:25! "No way." I thought. "The power must have gone out and the clock reset itself." I grabbed my cell phone to look at the time on it. 1:26! I still didn't believe. I decided to walk to the kitchen and look at the clock there: 1:25. UGH!!! All of a sudden I was not only cold and wet, I was now upset and WIDE AWAKE. I couldn't believe it. I quickly checked my alarm to see why it went off. Nope, nothing was set wrong. I laid back down on my bed for awhile trying to figure it out. I thought that I'd better try to get back to sleep but before I did, I'd better go dry my hair. Once back in bed, it took an hour or so before I fell back asleep. When my alarm went off later that morning, I was SO tired. So what woke me up??? No clue. I thought I must have been dreaming and in my dream an alarm went off and so I woke up with it. I thought I must be losing it.

Now...the rest of the story (as Paul Harvey would say):

Brian and Tena came and had lunch with me today. Toward the end of our lunch I received a phone call from Jonsie. She said that I had purse called her again (my cell phone must have gotten hit and dialed her number). As I hung up and was walking out with Brian and Tena, I told them about my conversation with Jonsie. Brian started to tell me that his phone and Tena's phone do that all the time. He said that his phone had actually just done that the other day. He said it was the middle of the night when he was getting ready for bed. He pulled his phone out of his pocket and noticed that it was calling my number. He freaked out and hurriedly tried ending the call knowing that I was probably sleeping. (OK...don't jump to it...wait for it.) All of a sudden, it was like a light bulb turned on for all three of us. I asked him when this happened. He said that it was a couple of nights ago. We immediately started pulling our phones out to look. At the same time we each found the record. 12:42 a.m. When? You guessed it...Wednesday morning. That's right dear readers, Brian's phone had indeed called me. It was the ringer that I woke up to thinking it was my alarm. We all started laughing so hard and I told Brian that it was his fault! So, I told Tena she was responsible for punishing Brian for calling me in the middle of the night and causing me to become clean, sweet-smelling, and sanitary by 1:26 in the bless-ed a.m. (M*A*S*H reference). (If you ask me, I think he was looking forward to her punishment. Perhaps I will have to go a different way next time.)

If anyone has any idea how to keep phones from dialing on their own, please let me know.