Now onto Terry and Heather who I absolutely adore. As you viewers can probably tell, they seemed to be a little “off” so far this season. I want you to know though, as dear friends of theirs, they are more solid than ever. Terry is a great husband, loves Heather and from what I have seen will do ANYTHING to make their marriage work -- even apologizing when sometimes he doesn’t need to. It’s tough putting your life out there for the world to see, and my advice to them is to keep each other a priority, don’t go to bed angry, kiss each other daily, listen to one another, love one another and don’t use the word divorce as an option. . .and everything else will fall into place.

I referenced a little bit about the bricks and how to tear them down when they start building up. I actually learned this from Brooks. One of the best things about my relationship with him, is we talk. We talk about everything, and we try to learn from our past mistakes so we don’t have them enter into our relationship. It actually made sense when I looked back at my relationship with Donn and some past employees that I had worked with for years. I had been so hurt for so many years by things that had happened between us and we never talked about it. We pushed it “under that rug” that Tamra talked about -- and before you knew it we had a brick wall between us. We couldn’t see each other, we didn’t touch, we didn’t kiss, we never spoke about our issues and we became strangers in our own home together. Neither one of us wanted a divorce, but it had gone on so long we just couldn’t find a way to get our love back. I don’t wish that on Terry and Heather, or any married couple for that matter. So, if there’s anything to take away from on this, is simply to break that brick when it starts to build and you will never have that wall between each other. Got it!?! Good!

I want to thank everyone for your continued prayers for Ryan in Afghanistan. Briana is sending him the episodes and he and some of his friends have been able to watch it on his laptop and have really enjoyed seeing how it’s come to real life TV after filming for six months. Ryan is scheduled to come home around October or November, and we pray it is even sooner. Briana and Troy have maintained well without him, but it’s tough on her. Raising a baby as a single mother is hard but she’s doing a fabulous job and I couldn’t be more proud of her. Troy is almost eight months old and just about ready to start crawling. He has been an amazing blessing to our family and we love him so much.