Finals Week or The end of the world?

Their is a theory floating around that the recent rapture scare was implimented by an Ivy league student body president who wanted to make good on all of his campaign promesis. Word has it that he planned the rapture during the same week as finals week as to put the student body at ease. Now that finals week is in full swing the rapture would have been an far easier task for most of us. We are suffering it well. Nicky and I should pull through with all A's this trimester and are that much closer to finishing the ADN portion of the degree.

Nicky and the girls are leaving saturday for Buffalo NY and I am staying behind to finish my course work for the ADN degree. I will meet up with them in July and spend some time with grandma and grandpa Kay.

Recent news from the kay side of the family. Grandma kay does indeed have to get open heart surgury and will spend the most of her summer recouperating from it. She is promised a 95% survival rate or so I heard. We must all keep her in our prayers and fasting please.

Sylvia spends most of her free time these days getting dressed up in dresses. She wants to look like a princess and loves to dance to the america song from west side story. She knows all of the moves and almost all of the words.

The remainder of Vivian's wounds are less than a quarter in size. She still requires daily dressing changes because of the depth of the abraision burn. We are very fortunate and blessed for her recovery.

Well more from us later.

Love You,

Benjamin and Nicky and Beauty and Cutie

Off to New York

The kay family is splitting up. Nicky and the Girls are heading to New York in a few weeks and the Papa is staying behind to further his education. They will be apart for a whole month. This is longer than ever in the 6 year history of this magical union. Wish us luck.

Benjamin will be able to start working as a nurse as soon as Aug. or Sept. It seems like such a short time but it is upon us almost. Nicky will have the same oportunity but a little later on.

Vivian is doing better each day. She is almost completly healed of two of the three abrasion burns. The third will take a little longer. We found out today that the Colligan cream that was perscribed to her w/o insurance in a 2 oz tube costs $116.00. Lucky for us the accident insurence should take care of it. Ouch. It works really well. We cant thank you all enough for all of the words of encouragment during this diffacult time. We still have vivid thoughts of what might have happened had the car not stopped. Her hip fracture will heal and requires no further monitering by the orthopoedist. Yay. They called it a fracture of the Iliac Wing. For those of you who are bone anatomy buffs it is a fracture between the Iliac Crest of the Os Coxa and the Anterior Superior Iliac Spine. Ya know, the hip bone or what not.

Mother's day will never be the same. I think for the Kay family it will be Vivian Day!

Nicky here. We had the week before Easter off of school and took full advantage of our time off. We spent the first few days going out with the missionaries; Benjamin with the elders and I went with the sisters. We were also invited by the mission president's wife to participate in a choir performance put on by all the missionaries in the mission. They needed more women's voices so several women from the stake so they asked me if I could join. I went to the rehearsal. All four of us went and Benjamin ended up joining in the rehearsal. It was a good thing he did because the tenors needed a little help. We sang at a meeting for new members, investigators and less active members on Good Friday. The next day we went to the big mall, Plaza las Americas, to the food court. There were about 170 of us sitting in groups of 8 all around the food court. Right at 12 noon one table of missionaries stood up and started singing 'Christ the Lord is Risen Today'. After a couple of measures, another group stands up. And so on until everyone was standing. It's called a flash mob. We sang the first verse of a few other hymns and then sat down. It was a fun experience to be with so many missionaries and sharing our testimonies of the resurrection through music. It is easy to be involved in church activities and service here in Puerto Rico where the church is small. It's been a great blessing for us.

We also spent some time that week at the beach and playing in the water of a broken fire hydrant right by our house. We really had a great time beating the heat. Sylvia loves the beach too. We went three afternoons in a row. She couldn't get enough.

We also took a little trip around the island over the weekend. We went to two of the areas where Benjamin served while he was here as a missionary. We stopped by a couple of houses and saw some people that he knew. It was really great. I only wish I had my camera with me. We didn't really plan the trip...we just left the house and drove.

We've only got a few weeks of classes left. It's amazing how fast this year has gone.