Jeanette.
This is the woman I married on January 17, 1998.  I always dreamed of getting married.  I would date girls and would try to picture myself with them as if I was married.  I never really took it to serious until I started dating Jeanette. I have been married to her for almost 5 years now.  The time has flown by.  That is a good and bad thing.  The good part is, well you know.  People say time flies when you are having fun.   The bad part is that I want to spend more time with her and it seems to go too quickly.  She is a terrific woman.  I love her for all she is.  She is beautiful, and yes this is what first attracted me to her.  Her mind, for she is very smart....although I wonder how she can put up with me sometimes, since I don't consider myself very smart.  She is very fun to be with.  I want to do everything with her.  I consider her my best friend.  She has been my strength through some tuff times.  God has truely blessed me and I am forever grateful that God  brought her into my life.  When people say behind every good man is a great women.  Well in my case it is true.  Jeanette I hope when you read this you will know I love you with out me having to say it.   You show your love to me everyday.  You are a great friend and a wonderful wife.  I hope I am the same to you.  I look forward to all the years God will allow me to spend with you.  I pray they are a lot.  My love always.  Your husband.                                           Dated 11-19-02
BRYAN'S RANDOM THOUGHTS.
I was listening to a talk show yesterday and they were letting people call in and answer a question the host asked.  Are you scared about another September 11 happening or something to that effect.  Well I listened to other people comment and it got me to thinking about myself.  I am not scared for myself or even my family.  I have a lot of faith in God and so I always try not to worry and let what ever happens be in Gods hands.  Another reason I don't worry is for a change we have leadership in this great Country.  We have a leadership that will go after the evil that threatens us and not wait on it to come to us.  This is the main reason I don't worry about terrorism. There is a group of people who want to run this country and they feel we should just negotiate and not do anything. Should this minorty of people who want to do nothing get control and allow this evil to continue while waiting on the UN,  then I would be terrified, but I believe GOOD will defeat EVIL in the end and we as a country will be stronger.    Dated 11-20-02
I wasn't able to spend any time with my family this Thanksgiving Day.  My parents have moved up north and my brother and his wife were on a cruise.  Things were very different.  I was a little depressed but got over it. I am truly grateful that I was able to spend it with my in-laws.  They were very sympathetic to the situation.  We also have may friends that told us that if we had no place to go they would love for us to have dinner with them.  God has truly blessed me and my family.   We have much to be thankful for.  Not only do I have a loving family (my parents and brother and sister-in-law), I have a lot of friends that love us too.  I am also grateful for my spiritual family.  All my brothers and sisters in Christ.  I want to say thank you to all of you out there who love me and my wife.  Thank you and please enjoy the rest of the upcoming holidays.
Dated 12-06-02
Again I was shown how much people love me.  Again I was shown how blessed I really am.  I got food poisoning a few months back and got very sick.  My wife, friends, brothers & sisters in Christ, and co-workers really showed they cared for me and were genuinely concerned for me and my well being.  I want to say thank you to all of you out there.  I also can't stress enough how happy it makes me feel to know that you all are there for me and my family and the prayers you have given to God on my behalf.  I lost a lot of weight while I was sick.  I went from 185 down to 157.  I like the fact I lost the weight.  Just not the way I lost it.  I thank God for all of you and I want to let everyone out there know if you don't think people care.....when it comes down to it you'd be suprised how many people really do.  Just remember God loved us so much that he sent his only son to die on the cross for us.  We all have someone who cares for us.  08-07-03
Christmas time is upon us once again.  People are hurrying to get the last-minute presents, or getting ready for the long or sometimes short trip to the Grandparents'.  We get so wrapped up in all the hustle and bustle of things that we often get stressed out and forget to enjoy all the wonderful things going on around us.  This year let's take a time-out.  Let's enjoy the time with our families.....even the in-laws.  Let's not get carried away with who got who what and spend more time on how are you doing.   My father-in-law loves the movie It's a Wonderful Life.  I never watched it until I started dating Jeanette.  Now I'm a part of their family tradition of watching it on Thanksgiving and everytime someone feels they want to see it or when it is on T.V. until Christmas has arrived.  What a beautiful movie.  We need to be more like George Bailey.  We often think we have it bad and nobody knows how we feel or understands what we're going through.  This year let's count our blessings and we too may realize that we have A WONDERFUL LIFE.  MERRY CHRISTMAS.   12/18/03
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