DAD, MOM and CHANTEL

Dear Family,Mom and I have sat for an hour trying to think of ‘what in the heck has happened in January’ since the great holidays of 2006 which were filled with Candra hooking up with DJ & visits from all of you and a wonderful closeout of 2006. It’s pretty hard to top the latter part of last month. We did attend a Jon Schmidt concert at the Tabernacle...went to a preview viewing of ‘The Work and the Glory”...attended the temple just before and just after it was closed for 2 weeks...socialized with our HP group for a Mexican dinner...enjoyed Karlena’s visit where we helped Verlie in her home, had dinner with Grandpa & Phyllis, and had a date with all of us at El Bajios...attended a Religion Faculty social where Bro Eyring (new to college administration) spoke some personal experience with his father, Elder Eyring. It was great. Between a new semester starting with 10 preparations each week in 5 subjects, lot’s of training-calling-setting apart and sometimes heart wrenching counseling for short sighted hormone driven choices in the BYUI 6th stake, and one endless month of trying to get organized-simplified-MAC computerized...and changing my own routine of working out in the fitness center at noon three days a week to getting up and hitting the fitness center at 5:00am SIX DAYS A WEEK... January flew by and is now just a memory! In fact, as I think about it, February is following suit and we will blink once and it’s Mom’s Birthday and Valentines Day...blink twice and it’ll be March Madness and the beginning of Spring. So, the secret is making sure we learn to enjoy it all and do as Kit mandates from life ... To suck the marrow!!!When we think about it all, our greatest joy is to THINK, TALK, and PLAN ‘about you all’.... And dream and scheme of how we can SERVE the Lord! In fact anything we think about with regards to ‘homes’ or ‘work’ or ‘investments’ and play--- our daily prayers always seem to include the supplication that we can be blessed to be able to SERVE you the family and the rest of Heavenly Fathers Children ----for the rest of our lives.Mom and I love you all and pray for you daily...that’s the one thing you can count on. At 6:30am and 10:30pm or thereabouts, you can visualize in your minds “MOM and DAD” praying for you and yours. You can know that we always include each of you in our expressions of Gratitude and requests for blessings.This little update hasn’t been too ‘playful’ or ‘funny’ or ‘full of fantastic news’ nor is there anything particularly dynamic. But we do love you all and feel it to be the greatest privilege of our lives to joined with you here on earth and forever.Love Mom and Dad (And Chantel)