I am so excited!

I have so many things I have wanted to post in the last week or so...but I have been SO busy, that obviously has not happened. I have wanted to respond to many of your blogs...I've read them, but that is as far as I got. Hopefully this next week I will have a little down-time that I can catch up on sharing some fun stuff that is happening around our house.

Today however, I want to share how excited I am that Stony and I are just a day away from taking a much needed vacation! I also want to ask for your prayers... We are leaving tomorrow night, pretty late, and driving 16 hours. Somewhere a long the way, we will probably stop, but if you could pray for safety for us, that would be great!

Another prayer request is for Kizzy and this trip. About 2 weeks ago, we asked Jenny if she wanted to come with us and bring the kids. She was excited about that idea, but we could tell that would probably not happen. So we aimed a little lower and asked if we could take just Kizzy with us. She wasn't sure...said she would think about it...we both assumed that would never happen. Never-the-less, I offered the trip to her and the kids again last week...and if she wouldn't go, reiterated that we would still like to take Kiz. Her reply made me slightly less hopeful that before, but I had this strange feeling that I should keep my hope and keep praying for Jenny and this request. So I did. And I asked again right before the weekend. Same reply from Jenny, same feeling from inside or more likely, outside me. Then, Stony saw Jenny on Wednesday and asked her again. This time, she was even more hesitant than when I asked her. Then Vicki talked to her. Today...she called Stony and told him she was getting Kizzy's stuff ready so she could go with us. I can hardly believe it! So this is where the prayer request comes. We do want her to come, but I won't believe that she really is coming until we are all in the vehicle together and traveling down I-25...at least 3 hours from home. So would you pray that this really happens and that it turns out to be a good thing?

Thanks!

Oh, Rani, we are going to be about 1 1/2 from you guys...could I call you sometime next week and see if we could get together...even for an hour?