So I am now teaching the 11 year old primary class at church(since jan) and I am amazed at how much they are teaching me!. Sunday was Easter and we of course were talking baout about Jesus Christ and his Resurrection. A child in my class asked me why when he visited the nephites and his apostles in Jerusalem were the nail marks still present if when you are resurrected your body was to be perfect. HOLY COW!!!! what a deep question and one I had never thought about. This is one of those times that I am SOOOO thankful for the Holy Ghost and its influence in my life. It occurred to me that when the scriptures talk about our perfect form in body at resurrection it's the body that makes US perfect. The scars of the nail prints are what makes Jesus Christ perfect, they are the scars of the Atonement and without them none of us could be made perfect. So He has to have them in his perfected and resurrected form to show us the scars of perfection. Of course I told the class this in a simplified form, but later easter night Brendan and I were talking and I told him about this experience. He said, "WOW, Jess taht is deep!" For him the philosophical geniuos that he is to say that I thought of something deep was a compliment. So think about your life and think of the scars that will make us perfect...Those of our Savior and what he endured for us. This is what Easter is truly about. Have a great weekend, and I'll have a family easter post later when I get the pics downloaded.

Okay so Mackenzie has been tagged. Here are five things you may or may not know about her.
1. She was born on her Ubcle Mic's birthday(19th) oct. 11th while he was in the MTC and Blessed on our 1st anniversary oct 17th.
2. She has been to a foreign country and loves to look at her passport(went to korea while brendan was deployed there for the army for a year).
3. She loves to read and is so excited to have 125 AR points this year( the AR program is new for us so she had to get used to it).
4. She had a head full of CURLY hair until I chopped it off at 3 and she still cries when it gets done...ARGH!
5. She has lived in in 6 states and attended 4 different elementary schools in her short not quite 4 years of school.
one last thing...she is the greatest daughter and big sister ever. without her help I wouldn't get through most days with my hair intact. With brendan working full time at the prison and going to school full-time she has stepped up. hopefully i am not totally messing the poor girl up.
so here is Mackenzie Kay Cox

we tag eli and syd cox, milam boys, and josh groft...of course anyone else who would like to can.

Okay here it is for Kyle. Kyle Wayne Cox was born on September 18, 2004 in Bethesda, Md at the Naval Hospital. He is the stereotypical military conception; daddy was on a hardship tour in Korea and came home for almost a month and you know the rest....nine months later we were blessed with our 9lb 1oz baby Kyle. Kyle was one of those very large babies that is so adorable because he was so chubby. All I can say is I don't think he's gained a whole lot of weight since his one year well baby that was 2 1/2 years ago! Kyle was the happiest baby (after the first 2 months of nap fighting). He has brought so much joy into our lives. As he has grown his personality has developed into a fun loving little boy who absolutely loves to be silly and make people laugh. Sometimes he even reminds me of his uncle Sean which is a little scary!!!!(my brother is 32 and still hasn't matured much beyond 3:)) Kyle fell in love with cars at a very young age and has helped his little brother love them too. Kyle also loves to play football, which shouldn't be too surprising considering who his father is. The thing we try to teach kyle about football and his little brother is that it has to be touch and not tackle. He hasn't quite got the hang of 2 hand touch and not 2 hand push. Kyle has impressed me so much with his intelligence. he can count to 20, knows most of the shapes and can most of the time say all the alphabet(lmop has turned into animal pee with the help of his father), and he loves to "read" books. If only we could get him interested in potty training at 3 1/2...ARGH! Kyle now has chores and every Saturday morning he will ask if it's chore time yet. His chore is to dust and brevan likes to help him too. I just hope this love of chores lasts beyond 4. Kyle is so much like his daddy it drives me crazy sometimes. People who knew Brendan at this age tell me how much he's like him and especially how much he resembles Brendan in appearance. He is finally enjoying primary after 2 VERY LONG months of fighting going to class on Sundays. He loves to sing the primary songs and a new song called apologize that is very popular right now. He'll come up and tell me that "it's too late to apologize, it's too late." We love Kyle so very much and the joy he adds to our little family. I hope those of you who haven't got a chance to meet him yet can someday...even if it means us taking some vacations! hope you enjoy the intro of Kyle......BTW sorry about the pictures. the boys were helping and posted them before i actually had them arranged correctly:)

okay I am going to post kyle in two parts: First photos of his life

from birth until present and second i will tell you about my sweet boy.

Starting from the bottom going up

the first three rows are from kyle's first year. from the time he was born until he turned 1 and had his first farm"cake".

then we have him with all his curls and then his second and third birthdays. enjoy his pictures of the first 3 years of total JOY!

okay just so you all know we are finally healthy again. After the flu and my ear drum rupturing, we okay I am healthy again. So far no one else has gotten sick. I do have a need...How do I get my 20 mos to eat? Brevan is on a food strike I think. Right now he's averaging one good meal a day and some healthy snacks. I am stick about the eating schedule every 3 hours. If they don't eat they have to wait until the next eating time. But with him still young sometimes he's just so honory because he's hungry. I was leaving it one the table and figured when he was hungry he'd eat. that ended up keeping him eating all day long! Kyle never went through this phase so I guess I havew forgotten. any advice would be appreciated. kyle's profile is coming soon!
Have a great end of the week!

Okay so I am a big wuss. I went back to the doctor for a follow up from a bunch of other stuff. It was great timing since I was sick to. So I have a case of influenza, but because I didn't go within the first 48 hours there was nothing he could do that I wasn't already doing. The thing I really am hating is that I have so much drainage in my eustation tubes(ear) that my equilibrium is a tad bit off. ARGGG!!!! and I can't hear out of my right ear. oh well I am fine just a whimp. It sucks when you only get sick once a year because it seems worse than it is. I am just hoping the rest of the family doesn't get it. Just FYI for those of you who got the Influenza vaccine this year.... It doe NOT work against the strain this year. So YOU can still get the virus. That is why I never get it. As a nurse working I was suppose to, but too many people got sick from the vaccine that I didn't want to chance it. plus the vaccine is always based on the previous year's strain. anyways have a great week, Jess

Well here it is march and I haven't posted in a couple of weeks. I still need to introduce the other 2 kiddos. That will happen later. We went out of town this past wednesday for 5 days. I ended up with what I thought was a bad chest cold, turned into a horrible case of laryngitis and then a stupid sinus junk. needless to say I have not been this sick in years. I had a doc apt already scheduled for today so i did't worry until yestrday evening when my right ear started hurting and felt like it was going to implode. my wonderful husband came home from class a little early and went to wal-mart anbd found some good earche relief. I am still going to the doctor today. Just hoping my kids don't get the crap. Hope you all have a wonderful alomst spring week.