March 13, 2006

Dear Brieanna,

I've been thinking about you today, and sense that I need to write you. I want you to know that I love you, and haven't forgotten you. I've made the commitment to update your website this year. I want to post old pictures of us, as well as new ones. You are a young lady now, and I think if you were to show up on my doorstep, I wouldn't even recognize you it's been so long, and you've changed so much. I imagine that you are a beautiful young lady.

Asher, Seth and Noelle are doing great. I like to watch movies with them on the weekends sometimes. We watch old films from my childhood. This weekend we watched Rocky II. We also like to watch Twilight Zone, and Start Trek re-runs that we get from the library.

I bought something fun this last week. I got a couple of green houses. They come with a bunch of disks with compressed soil, and when you add water, the disks grow into little fabric lined soil containers, and then you can add seeds. We still have snow on the ground here, and so to get an early start on my garden I want to grow a bunch of plants indoors. Each green house box contains 72 soil disks so I will have a ton of plants. The tomato seeds are sprouting nicely. However, I planted some pepper seeds that I removed from a green pepper and some Jalapeno peppers, and they have yet to sprout. I may have to get seeds from the store.

My favorite thing to grow in the garden is potatoes. They are really fun to harvest it's like digging for buried treasure. I send the kids out at the end of the season, and they hunt for potatoes.

Brieanna, you are my first born, and I miss you terribly. I wish you would come spend time with me. I wish I knew where you were. I pray that God will touch your heart and mind with a desire to search me out, that we may be a family again. May God watch over you, and protect you. May you make good decisions. May you know that there is someone in this world that loves you.

Love,

Dad.