luckiest guy

so, i realize that janell is much cuter, smarter and a much better writer. i'm the luckiest guy to be married to her. well, i do feel fortunate, maybe a little smart, for asking her to marry me at a time when it would have been difficult to say no...luckily, she had thought about it just a couple of weeks earlier and knew it was coming! we've now passed our 6 year mark - things couldn't be better. our fun and handsome children, joshua and jacob, are joys. just to give an idea of how much more interestingly janell expresses our lives, read our holiday vacation (can compare with my sorry holiday post below) and this about sweet jacob. one thing to add on jacob. he pronounces everyone else's name in our family perfectly - he's been saying "joshuua" for months. but never tried to say his own. until a couple of months ago he started calling himself "beetup". cute name, and kind of close to jacob. the other day, since he can say "jay", we worked on saying "cup". it was obvious he couldn't say his "c"s, and he was saying "but" instead. then i thought, man this guy is smarter than he lets on. he can't say "jacob", so he picked "beetup" instead of "jay-but". showing some early prudence