Well here is..THE REST OF THE STORY..

So about that time Ryan was 4 and he started asking me who his father was and I would kinda dodge the whole thing. I was staying in a house of a friend who's son went to school with Dan and he had a year book with Dan's picture in it. Because I did not have any. So I showed Ryan the picture..thinking he would be satisfied and not ask again. But he looked at it along time and said I wish he would come and see me. And it broke my heart. I knew Dan was coming for a visit...but I still thought God was just going to show me I did not need him and the move me on to Tenn. So the other side of the story...come to find out Dan's parents had never told him that I was anywhere around Idaho , much less going to church with them for 6 months. They knew if they told him he would not come down...him being the big chicken he was...so they thought they would just hide this little bit of info from him...hum...remember they were praying too. So they go to pick him up from the airport and they get him home and say ...oh by the way Charlene is living here now and she goes to church with us. I think he must of choked a little and then tried to act like it was no big deal. And then his dad spoke up and said , Dan...she has never asked us for a thing. And I think it eased his mind . Well Sat. nite came and the church had a thing for teenagers and we always went and I thought I will go and Ryan has only seen that one picture of Dan so he won't know who he is cause he has changed alot ...he had a beard and longer hair. Well I was wrong. We went in and dan's mom comes running over and say's come over here and Ryan was standing there and saw dan and stood there like he was frozen and just stared him up and down and Dan was like trying not to die...the kid looks just like him. I tried not to pee my pants...it was fun watching him squirm. But it was ok, we got past that and Ryan did not say anything. I tried to go about enjoying myself and ignore Dan as much as I could. But he kept following me around. I would be polite and talk small talk but I really was not interested in him because I thought..I WAS GOIN TO TENN... but God had other plans.
Now I was a born again christian and I had forgiven him and I was trying really hard to ignore him but he would not leave me alone. Then at the end of the nite he asked me if I would go to dinner with him the next day after church. I thought oh well why not...but he needs to know that ..I'M GOING TO TENN... Well we went to dinner at his mom and dads house and Ryan still had not said anything to me and I still had not told him who this person was. I was not going to do that untill I was sure he was going to stick around for ryan. So he asked me while we were there if Ryan knew who he was. I said I have not told him. So when we left to go home. We got in the car and I said Ryan that man is your father...and he said I wished I would have hugged him good bye and I said you will get the chance later. So Dan started calling me and took me shopping and to dinner and then before he left to go back to alaska he asked me to marry him. And I said yes, because I knew God was putting us together. And so here we are 26 years later. We had to get to know each other cause it was like an arranged marriage...we only knew each other before thru partying and drinking and we really did not know each other. We have another son who is 24 years old...and I just want you guys to know that God does answer prayer and as you probably all know by now...I did not...GO TO TENN. And just to let you know that not all of the time have I felt like Cinderella....sometimes I felt like murder...but with God we have always gotten thru the hard times. Hope you guys get your prayers answered...I sure have...