RETURN TO HOMEPAGE NEWS AND BIRTHDAYS
OCTOBER BIRTHDAYS

2 - Ronald Jeffery
7 - Aunt Gail
8 - Cousin Armin
8 - 2nd Cousin Parker (5)
13 - Cousin Will (12)
13 - Deb (Sarah's Mom)
15 - Aunt Lisa
20 - Mitchell (7)
21 - 2nd Cousin Emily (15)
Thomas and Jake are becoming best buddies really fast.  Thomas, still an eager eater, always manages to share a bit with Jake.
OUIMETTE NEWSBITS
School is going well, as expected.  Bethan is excited to be learning to read and can name every child in her classroom.  Jeffery is doing well to keep up with piano, viola, choir, advanced math, and his third grade work.  Thomas has begun walking and is cutting five more teeth.  Ron's looking into getting a garage built this coming spring and Laura's arranged to get the hardwood floors uncovered and refinished in the dining and living rooms. 
We'll be traveling to Philadelphia Columbus Day weekend to meet up with Oswego friends; Keith, Kevin, Michele & Howard.  Jeffery and Bethan are also looking forward to checking out Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell.
We met up with the Barlow family in Alexandria Bay
back in August.
Nathan's been deployed to
Iraq since September 2007.
Isaac's first birthday was September 1st. 
Jeanette (Laura's cousin) is expecting a second child in April.  This will be her first full winter in upstate NY.
Joey, their beagle,
came along from Fort Drum and seemed pleased to meet us.
PRAYERS
Because we know how powerful prayer can be ...  Your thoughts and prayers are appreciated.
Gary Dievendorf is in Kandahar, Afghanastan doing police training.
Cousin Nathan Barlow who is in Iraq for the next 18 months.
Ryan Spah, an 8th grader, recently diagnosed with Burkitts Lymphoma.
Canandaigua's City Manager, Stephen Cole, in Atlanta, GA rehab from a brain aneurysm.
Linda Granata, Alex (13), Eric (12), and Ellen (10), the family of Kevin Granata
who was killed at Virginia Tech.  Kevin and Linda rowed with Jay and Gail at Purdue.

If you have any requests to add, please let Laura know so they can be added next month.
Mason celebrated his one year anniversary of the cord blood transfer!
Thank you for all of the prayers.
More about Mason:
CAREPAGE
Mason's Strenghth  Blog
Click here for the adoption story as told on Steve Curtis Chapman's website..
Laura's article, PICTURE THIS, was published in the September 2004 issue of Welcome Home.  It's  also been selected as an online featured article.  You may check it out at the Family and Home Network site:
www.familyandhome.org
or directly with this link:
PICTURE THIS
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