7 day Disney Cruise

Kay, Janell and I went on a 7 day Disney cruise with our daughter Lauren, her sister-in-law Lily, Kay's sister

Leah with her daughters Jana and Erica.

We loved the Disney ship with their larger rooms, no gambling, free soda and juice at meals, great shows and entertainment. Highlights were: Janell's first kiss- his name was ray

Snorkeling and swimming with stingrays in the Grand cayman (we got to meet ray's family there)

Lauren and Janell loosing several rounds in a game show only to beat everyone!

Key west city tour we made everyone go, and almost all fell asleep!!!!! High School Musical 3 premEARed on the ship so we watched HSM #1 and 2 by the pool and watched the new movie at midnight in the theater

seeing all the characters on the ship

Korea at last/ Hospitalization

Caleb left for Korea Monday and called me from LAX and Seoul(4:15AM). His long flight was 13 hours. He had a short one on each end. check out his blog at calebander.blogspot.com

I called my calling card to find the out-of-country access codes and any further instructions. There were 4 different ones. I wrote detailed instructions and put them with the card so he was one of just a few in Seoul to be able to make their cards work.

My Korean friend pulled me aside at church, she attends another ward, and said she saw Caleb at the MTC when she was serving there. She spoke to him and said "he has a very good accent and can say many words perfectly." He may not know what he is saying but he can mimic sounds. I had 4 pizzas dropped off to the MTC last week for his final week of packages. It was a little shady how I did it, so to protect the innocent I will not go into detail but thanks Derrald (my son in law). I guess it is time to "cut the apron strings." Let Caleb grow up. I did get a bunch of missionary thank you notes. Caleb said his apartment was the food place, if anyone was hungry they stopped by. His favorite was home made rolls with real butter.

I went up to Salt Lake to tend the twin 4lb granddaughters for a bit while Frances went shopping. They are like little kittens and sooo tiny. Frances said she thinks one baby would be easy. She is right I was feeding one and the other one started to cry. All my hands were full and If I stopped feeding one the other will cry, what's a grandma to do?

Alice (2 weeks old) is in Primary Children's hospital for 10 total days, this is day 3. She has a gastric intestinal infection from being a preemie and eating fortified formula supplement,her stomach wasn't ready for (instructions from the hospital). Frances is nursing. This will be hard but they moved out of their temporary city apartment. The cabin is closer to this hospital anyway.

a time for every purpose under heaven

We have pictures of our Omaha grandson Aaron Lewis Chappell. He was born 5 minutes after Rachael arrived at the hospital. Her fourth. My fourth was the same. Rachael beware..... if you are like your mother, the next one will be born at home accidentally. Ethan, Sean and Jenna were very welcoming... sometimes too welcoming.
The funeral of my brother-in-law Paul Lusk is over, we stayed to make sure Leah knew what to do about paperwork etc. We went with her to the temple, social security office, grave marker stores, cemetery, Paul's office etc. We were able to stay longer because she had a friend that let us use her mom's home while the mom was in China and she actually moved out of her home for a few days where we stayed at the beginning of our trip. Kay and I drove Caleb's car from Omaha to Salt Lake and picked up the casket at Delta Cargo in Salt Lake City, picked up Janell and went to Sugar City. Kay said "if we get into an accident with this casket on top of the car we WILL make National news." Kay bought the casket on line and saved a bundle of money and got what Leah wanted, a cherry wood casket which the funeral home did not offer.

The viewing was as large as the viewing from the Sugar City resident that was killed in the Pentagon on 9/11. The viewing line went 4 hours and Leah felt renewed after the viewing. The funeral was put on by Paul's family. Several brothers spoke. He has 8 brothers who were "Paul bearers" and lowered him into the earth. One of them said it was a nice way to have closure instead of letting the funeral home lower the casket later.

Paul took care of the family financially, they will be fine so that is a relief. Kay called on an expired life policy they replaced and found the life insurance local office forgot to inform the company of termination, the payment was still coming out of automatic withdrawal, so she was double covered! They said their mistake was a blessing!

Paul's brothers follow the Bible taking care of their brother's wife. They have called her and helped her.

We are at the hospital with Frances's twin girls born last Sunday, Claire and Alice. Claire will be released tomorrow and Alice should follow shortly. They have both lost a little weight but are over 4 lbs. This is my way of multiplying and replenishing the earth.

I went to the all men meeting... Priesthood session and saw Caleb singing in the MTC choir. A joyful grandmother and mother here. Janae