Riley Jaco Born 11/23/08!!!!

Riley was born Sunday afternoon at two forty three pm. He weighed eight pounds and three ounces and is twenty one and a half inches long!!!!! Riley and Jeanette are both doing very well although jeanette's tailbone broke during the delivery.

This was my first time to watch a natural delivery and it was absolutely amazing!!!!!

I spent the night at the hospital with Jeanette and we stayed up almost all night talking. We found out we have a lot of weird quirks in common!!!

I'm in the family room at Methodist Hospital now and we are getting ready to check out.

Just thought I would check in here...

I found Dawn

I Googled Dawn and Craig and found them and we talked for hours the other night. She has seven children now!! She topped off her family with boy/girl twins last spring. It was wonderful talking to her again. We talked about everything that has gone on in our lives for the last five years or so since we last talked and about the Morman church. I am very proud of her and all she has done with her life. I really hope to be able to see her again someday soon. I have to see all these kids!!! I feel that they are mine as I feel that she is mine. I am also very very proud of Anthony, her oldest son, who is almost sixteen now. He sounds so wonderful. I know that being in the Morman church has a lot to do with how Dawn's life has turned out and am very thankful for that. It does make me want to keep investigating the church although it doesn't make me want to rush to join. I know it is right for her. Whether or not it is right for my family and me might be a different thing.
The elders were here this evening. I told them I wanted to read the book of Acts before I went any further with them and that I would be looking at other churches, too, and they said that was fine although they, of course, are still pushing LDS very hard as they always do when you talk to them. Jeremy and I are going to take a tour of their church tomorrow evening with them. They brought a man with them tonight, I don't remember his name, I'm bad about that, and they have several times brought members with them when they visit, but this time I sensed pretty quickly that this man was different even before they told me who he was. He seemed to just kind of glow when he spoke and halfway through the visit they explained who he was. I forget the title he holds but he isn't just a missionary but holds a high position in the church here. It was impressive that someone could have the air about him that this man did is Morman. I told them that I wasn't jumping in the water but was just looking at it for now and again they said that was fine and then went on with this evening's lesson. ;-) Tonight they talked about chastity and with it about Jeremy and I getting legally married in Nebraska since Nebraska doesn't recognize the common law marriage we had in Texas. I explained that we were bothered by that, too, but that I would lose my disability benefits if we got married legally here. They said that they would consult a lawyer about it. Internesting....
Being behind on all our bills finally caught up with us and we lost our Cox phone and they will be shutting down our cable and Internet at any time now. We went and got a Cricket cell phone and have a converter box for one of the TV's so far and that will have to do for now. I have internet on the cell phone and will use the one at the library after this is shut off. It's a bit of a bummer but we've accepted it. I'm glad Jeremy doesn't seem to hold it against me that this is because of the money we spent helping Jami. We will get back on our feet again and get it all together again soon. We were planning to cut the cable and internet to give us a break to catch up and keep the phone but we were to far behind to even keep the phone with them.
OK. Bedtime. See you.

After Halloween

Jeanette, Patrick, and I took Jenise, Robbie, and Jessalynn trick-or-treating in the Cherry Hills subdivision and had a fun night even if a bit exhausting. My best moment was when a man offered Robbie a box of Nerds and Jenise thought he was calling Robbie a Nerd and she yelled He's a Vampire not a nerd!! I love the way those two love each other.
We lasted as long as the kids did and I got home by about ten. Patrick and I talked a lot during the walk. He so obviously still loves Jess it is really sad to see although he tries to hide it, there is just no hiding a love like that. I do often wish they had just been more compatable or at least older when they got together.
I do hate that Jess is with Meezie!!! He will never amount to anything and he will never marry her and he will never support her even halfway. He is being nice to her right now, taking her out to dinner tonight, but I am not at all impressed.
If he wants to impress me he could start by getting real job.
And do his own laundry or SOMETHING around the house besides mess it up and run up the bills.
OK. I got that out of my system for now!!!
Jeremy and I are getting along better again. He does try so hard but he is such a butthead and that is sooo ingrained in him from being raised by a bigger butthead.
I had the Morman elders here again at one today and have agreed to go to church with them tomorrow. I still don't feel any strong urge to join with them. I want to re-read Ann Moore's Till Morning Light and check her references to what she wrote about the beginnings of the Morman church. I know her opinion was negetive but I don't remember what all her disagreements were or where she got her information but I do remember agreeing with her thoughts at the time I read it not long ago at all. And I still have deeply ingrained in me a distrust of all "organized religion" and nothing I have heard or seen yet has let down that guard at all. I am going to attend their church to hear and see what they do there different from other churches I have seen, I have been to many and found them all to be, to me, false, and I will give theirs the same fair chance to make me feel compelled to join. I do enjoy discussing the Bible with people familiar with it, and these guys are although maybe not so much as the workers in the Truth, but I may continue to resist their pushing of The Book of Morman even though I am dutifully reading it to also give it a fair chance. I think I wouldn't bother at all if it weren't for Dawn and wondering how her life is now that she has become a Morman.
I am getting ready now to have all of the grandkids here for the evening. Even Jasmine will be here for a little while while Jess goes out to eat with Meezie. :-) The otheres will be spending the night and I hope most of tomorrow with me.