Can't sleep...

Good morning all,

I can't sleep so I thought I would write you and let you know the latest. As of last night, I felt led to call Michelle from Alaska to see how she was. She was so excited and told me that I had been on her heart and mind but that she didn't have long distance to be able to call me. She was so glad that I called. Her husband, Mark, who is a pilot at MARC has been on vacation for the past month and so they are out of the loop so to speak from the news at MARC regarding us mailing in our application and desiring to come this January. She squealed. She said, "how perfect, your timing couldn't be better. We are on furlough during Jan-March and need someone to watch our house and pets. Would you guys??" Their house is so beautiful and they have 4 children so it is all ready for a family of 6. They leave on Jan. 22nd and return March 31st. She would like for us to come a few days before they leave and stay with them so the kids can meet and get to know each other plus she said she wanted to see us too and didn't want to miss us all together. Scott went flying last night so I could hardly wait to tell him the news. He got home about 8 p.m. and when I told him, he called Travis, the head mechanic at MARC, and told him. Travis already knew because Mark had told him. Travis had already told Len, the director of MARC, that we were staying at Mark's house. Travis said he could really use Scott while we were there and that he already had lined us tools for Scott to use. All of this occurred and I hadn't even told Scott the news yet. Too funny. So, we are struggling with do we drive there or fly. We have been told that it would be much safer to fly during that time due to roads and the condition of the Al-can can be rough on a summer day, not to chance it during the winter. We are also thinking about the avalanches that occur frequently on the roads between Anchorage and Soldotna. Travis said that it had snowed yesterday and that the nights are in the 20's and in the day they are getting high 30's.
We have been looking at airfare and so far the lowest is about $657 each person round trip. Paul, an MMSer here, is trying to help us find buddy passes and stuff to ease the cost. He was a pilot before coming here for 12 years and has lots of friends.
Most of you met Paul at the retreat.

Scott goes in this Wednesday for his flight physical and then next week he is flying 3 times and doing his solo. Pray for his nerves as he is nervous.

Shaughn has had a pretty bad cold for the past few days but seems to be on the upward swing of getting better. Matthew and I felt we might be coming down with it now. Very sore throat and icky feeling, loss of appetite and sleepy. You know, yucky cold /flu feelings. :-)

Jeremiah lost 2 teeth over the weekend. One on Friday night and the other on Saturday. We call him the toothless wonderboy now. He proudly shows it off. His new tooth is coming through very nicely and just pushed those two little teeth out of the way.

Bless you all and hope to hear from you soon. Love you!!
Lela and boyz~