Frances and Marc Inman (our daughter) had twin daughters today at 12:40 PM, we are in Idaho attending a funeral and Frances called Leah who texted her son during the sacrament who told us they were on their way. We called 20 minutes after they were born. They were c-section, one weighed 4lbs 2 oz and the other was 5 lbs 2 oz.
She will be in the hospital for 4 days and hadn't seen them yet when I called. From what we hear, everyone is doing great!!! We have tripled our grandchildren this week!!! We will stay a few days in Idaho after Paul's funeral and go see the twins the end of the week.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Omaha to Sugar City Idaho
We are in Omaha right now with Baby Aaron Lewis Chappell. I have been taking the kids on morning adventures, bring a lunch, then we go to Rachael’s so grandma can take a short nap… Jenna too and then we go off to a park in the afternoon. Yesterday we did the children's museum and chuck-e-cheese. Aaron is a cry at night baby so Rachael is grateful for the kids being out of her hair.
The kids are great, fun, cute and enjoyable. I brought them to Kay’s because we were in the area. Jenna was touching everything. Buttons, screws etc. She turned the burners of the gas stove on and carried around little nails. Ethan and Sean were intrigued with the battery stuck between two boards in the deck. It was really stuck and their fingers couldn'’t do the job. I handed Ethan a screw driver, he figured out how to make it a lever and stepped on it several times really hard and got it out. He carried it around with him for a few hours, very proud of his accomplishment. Sean picked up several screws and screwed them in a cardboard box (fun activity for a 4 year old).
Today is Friday and I will take them to a tiny town village in the morning, tomorrow we will do the zoo, I will pick up Kay we will drive Caleb's car out to Idaho to Paul Lusk's funeral.
Kay's sister Leah and her husband Paul were taking a walk Tuesday night in the neighborhood. A car came really close to them in their lane and Leah was freaked out and got out of the way. Paul kept walking where he was and was struck by another car. The driver was an18 year old neighbor down the street. He was driving to soccer practice, he was grabbing something in the back seat and veered into the wrong lane, like we all have done, and hit Paul. Paul flew in the air and came down breaking his neck and was dead instantly. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Leah said she has no animosity towards him and forgives him. Paul would want it that way.
This has been a huge wake up call for all of us. Life is short. We all want to be more like Paul.... forgiving, kind, do gooder
The viewing will be on Sunday night and the funeral will be Monday at 1PM.
We leave in 3 weeks for our cruise and we just added Erica so Leah, Jana and Erika will come with us. Leah said she does not want to go but I said that is good timing for needing to do something fun. Good therapy. I told Leah we were making them go and I don’t care of Erica isn’t excited, she is going. Leah said Oh,Erica is excited.
This has been an emotional week. I know Paul is in a better place, I know he is waiting for his family to come and join him, I am sure he will be there for his family and will be able to see special moments in their life. They are the ones that need to work hard here on earth to see him again. I know we lived with our Heavenly Father before we came to this earth and I know we don't die but continue to live after death. Love Janae
The kids are great, fun, cute and enjoyable. I brought them to Kay’s because we were in the area. Jenna was touching everything. Buttons, screws etc. She turned the burners of the gas stove on and carried around little nails. Ethan and Sean were intrigued with the battery stuck between two boards in the deck. It was really stuck and their fingers couldn'’t do the job. I handed Ethan a screw driver, he figured out how to make it a lever and stepped on it several times really hard and got it out. He carried it around with him for a few hours, very proud of his accomplishment. Sean picked up several screws and screwed them in a cardboard box (fun activity for a 4 year old).
Today is Friday and I will take them to a tiny town village in the morning, tomorrow we will do the zoo, I will pick up Kay we will drive Caleb's car out to Idaho to Paul Lusk's funeral.
Kay's sister Leah and her husband Paul were taking a walk Tuesday night in the neighborhood. A car came really close to them in their lane and Leah was freaked out and got out of the way. Paul kept walking where he was and was struck by another car. The driver was an18 year old neighbor down the street. He was driving to soccer practice, he was grabbing something in the back seat and veered into the wrong lane, like we all have done, and hit Paul. Paul flew in the air and came down breaking his neck and was dead instantly. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Leah said she has no animosity towards him and forgives him. Paul would want it that way.
This has been a huge wake up call for all of us. Life is short. We all want to be more like Paul.... forgiving, kind, do gooder
The viewing will be on Sunday night and the funeral will be Monday at 1PM.
We leave in 3 weeks for our cruise and we just added Erica so Leah, Jana and Erika will come with us. Leah said she does not want to go but I said that is good timing for needing to do something fun. Good therapy. I told Leah we were making them go and I don’t care of Erica isn’t excited, she is going. Leah said Oh,Erica is excited.
This has been an emotional week. I know Paul is in a better place, I know he is waiting for his family to come and join him, I am sure he will be there for his family and will be able to see special moments in their life. They are the ones that need to work hard here on earth to see him again. I know we lived with our Heavenly Father before we came to this earth and I know we don't die but continue to live after death. Love Janae
Friday, September 19, 2008
My new house (just an organized one)
Janell is settling into school. We have a girl living with us in the basement so when I go visit Kay, Janell will have someone here with her.
I have hired another girl from Tajikistan (next to China, a break off from the Soviet Union) who is going to school at UVU, to help me organize. She is cleaning and organizing my house from the attic to the garage and is very good. There are things that haven't seen a cleaning rag in the 12 years we have been here. I love to take people to show off my storage rooms which were disasters before. I feel such a relief and freedom. She doesn't read English so some things are not where they should go and be, but everything is neat and tidy, I realized with her here, I do more and am inspired to organize.
With my shopping addiction (I just came out of the closet last year) I have things organized and I can see some of my follies. She speaks some foreign language and Russian and is Shite Muslim. It is Ramadan now so she is fasting. We have had a whole new world open up.
For Janell 's birthday in July, we gave her a Disney Cruise. We go next month and are getting excited about that. Janell will miss 4 days of school. She enjoys band and pep band at the football games.
The multiplying and replenishing commandment in the Bible is really cool when your offspring have offspring. Rachael in Omaha is having a baby boy this month and Frances in Salt Lake will have her twin girls next month. Rachael's boys have been calling the unborn baby 'Chester Jack-Jack' (the latter being the baby from the Disney movie The Incredibles) Rachael likes to keep names a secret until the baby is born so we will see if we get Chester Chappell or not.
I went to Omaha to visit Kay and the grand kids and had a great time at the zoo and Children's museum with them. Going to Omaha to visit is nice, I stay with Kay in his apartments and spend the days while he is working with Rachael and the kids. I am not in Rachael's hair and have a car to go where I want. We are anxious to have our Kay back, hopefully in the spring. Meanwhile I will see him at the end of the month and for our Disney Cruise.
I have hired another girl from Tajikistan (next to China, a break off from the Soviet Union) who is going to school at UVU, to help me organize. She is cleaning and organizing my house from the attic to the garage and is very good. There are things that haven't seen a cleaning rag in the 12 years we have been here. I love to take people to show off my storage rooms which were disasters before. I feel such a relief and freedom. She doesn't read English so some things are not where they should go and be, but everything is neat and tidy, I realized with her here, I do more and am inspired to organize.
With my shopping addiction (I just came out of the closet last year) I have things organized and I can see some of my follies. She speaks some foreign language and Russian and is Shite Muslim. It is Ramadan now so she is fasting. We have had a whole new world open up.
For Janell 's birthday in July, we gave her a Disney Cruise. We go next month and are getting excited about that. Janell will miss 4 days of school. She enjoys band and pep band at the football games.
The multiplying and replenishing commandment in the Bible is really cool when your offspring have offspring. Rachael in Omaha is having a baby boy this month and Frances in Salt Lake will have her twin girls next month. Rachael's boys have been calling the unborn baby 'Chester Jack-Jack' (the latter being the baby from the Disney movie The Incredibles) Rachael likes to keep names a secret until the baby is born so we will see if we get Chester Chappell or not.
I went to Omaha to visit Kay and the grand kids and had a great time at the zoo and Children's museum with them. Going to Omaha to visit is nice, I stay with Kay in his apartments and spend the days while he is working with Rachael and the kids. I am not in Rachael's hair and have a car to go where I want. We are anxious to have our Kay back, hopefully in the spring. Meanwhile I will see him at the end of the month and for our Disney Cruise.
Sept 5, 2008
It has been a while since I have written. Caleb is in the MTC and I continue to send him packages of cookies, a Costco birthday cake for his companion, and anything else he wants.... jump rope, lighter for fixing his ties....etc. We enjoy his letters. His companion's mother got on the same site as me, missionarymom.com so we have communicated. She said she appreciated having Caleb in the recovery room after her son's surgery (she is a nurse and got permission to come), Elder Singleton woke up speaking Korean! Caleb translated.
I am leaving town next week and have had to figure out how Janell is getting to all her after- school activities. We rode our bikes to her Tahitian dance class Wednesday and we took a practice run on the bus for her BYU dance class starting next week. Hey, she can go to Brazil by herself, she should be able to ride the bus! The only problem with the bus is she kept falling asleep. This is a good habit that I have encouraged when kids get in cars they sleep. I had to wake her up to see landmarks. I hope she makes it.
I will have her take the bus from now on so I don't have to wait 1 1/2 hours for her plus the drive which is another hour. I just need to get someone to take her to her flute lesson while I am gone and we are set.
School is going well for her. She didn't understand her math teacher who is part time and leaving for 2 months to have a baby. We moved her to an old football star from BYU, Eli Herring. She understands him and we are thrilled.
For Labor day holiday, Janell and I went to Logan to visit Grandma and Grandpa Cope with the Neilson family, we had a good time and on the way home stopped at Frances's to help her move bedrooms and set up the cribs for her twin girls due on October 14Th now. Her babies are now 3 1/2 pounds each and she looks great! She measures 40 weeks ( the measurement to delivery for 1 baby) now. Another woman her Dr. sees is due after Frances and is measuring 56 weeks!
Caleb's mission blog is a link I have to the right. http://calebander.blogspot.com/ Check it out.
It has been a while since I have written. Caleb is in the MTC and I continue to send him packages of cookies, a Costco birthday cake for his companion, and anything else he wants.... jump rope, lighter for fixing his ties....etc. We enjoy his letters. His companion's mother got on the same site as me, missionarymom.com so we have communicated. She said she appreciated having Caleb in the recovery room after her son's surgery (she is a nurse and got permission to come), Elder Singleton woke up speaking Korean! Caleb translated.
I am leaving town next week and have had to figure out how Janell is getting to all her after- school activities. We rode our bikes to her Tahitian dance class Wednesday and we took a practice run on the bus for her BYU dance class starting next week. Hey, she can go to Brazil by herself, she should be able to ride the bus! The only problem with the bus is she kept falling asleep. This is a good habit that I have encouraged when kids get in cars they sleep. I had to wake her up to see landmarks. I hope she makes it.
I will have her take the bus from now on so I don't have to wait 1 1/2 hours for her plus the drive which is another hour. I just need to get someone to take her to her flute lesson while I am gone and we are set.
School is going well for her. She didn't understand her math teacher who is part time and leaving for 2 months to have a baby. We moved her to an old football star from BYU, Eli Herring. She understands him and we are thrilled.
For Labor day holiday, Janell and I went to Logan to visit Grandma and Grandpa Cope with the Neilson family, we had a good time and on the way home stopped at Frances's to help her move bedrooms and set up the cribs for her twin girls due on October 14Th now. Her babies are now 3 1/2 pounds each and she looks great! She measures 40 weeks ( the measurement to delivery for 1 baby) now. Another woman her Dr. sees is due after Frances and is measuring 56 weeks!
Caleb's mission blog is a link I have to the right. http://calebander.blogspot.com/ Check it out.
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