A report:
So this newfamilysearch has helped bring families together and get names to the temple! I can report success.
My grandfather's second wife was Velma Brown. We never called her grandma, even though she was his wife since we were born.
She gave me a long history of the Brown family before she died, so I have her "Brown family" records for 7 generations. One of the reasons for this is because they lived in US.
That was the longest line I had until now.
Her mother's father's line is Hanning. Last year I saw someone else had done a sealing for the great grandfather. Now I see a whole line has been added! I called my sis yesterday to see if I should do some of the temple work for some of them, (it says READY) in new family search), or let them do them. She showed me how to see who turned the names in, and low and behold, one of the persons working on the line was a guy in Kathy's stake who actually taught her genealogy and is on the high council! So I emailed him. He is a far distant relative, but it is nice to see connections! The other girl has not answered yet.
So I now have another line going back to 1780's, and someone is doing the work.
One time Velma told me that all her ancestors were very religious, and that she thought she had Mormons somewhere in her history.
She did or does now!
If and when any of you want to actually do some searching, we should divide up the lines and each pick a family line to work on, so as not to duplicate. First come first serve!
Thursday, February 09, 2012
Monday, February 06, 2012
THE GIANTS WIN!!!!
Well they did it and my very own and last prediction documented on this very blog came true...And the giants will win the super bowl!!!! Will probably post more in detail about this event on COX& CO =) but just wanted to say for the record right here.... GO GIANTS!!!!!!!!!!!! the super bowl was awesome this year!!!!!!
Sunday, February 05, 2012
Reading List
I have decided recently that I would like to make an extensive list of important books that I would like to eventually read through out my life. I haven't thought too hard about it yet, and mean to make a good list eventually, but I was thinking I could maybe get some input from everyone. Currently here are some of the books I have thought about :
-Les Miserables
-The Narnia Series
-The Screwtape Letters
-Dune
-The Infinite Atonement
-The Miracle of Forgiveness
-Flatland
-The World is Flat
-Freakonomics
-The Star Wars Books
-The Holy Temple
-Dracula
-A Tale of Two Cities
-The History of the Church
-1776
-The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin
-The Complete Sherlock Holmes
-Don Quixote
-1984
-Robison Crusoe
-Uncle Tom's Cabin
This isn't an extensive list. I've just been meaning to write this blog for a while now and I wanted to get this blog written so you could maybe start thinking about this with me. Maybe we could try and read some together for Cari's family book club idea. Thanks for all your help.
Friday, February 03, 2012
Resolution And Date Day/Night
So I finally made my resolution for 2012: to spend more time with my husband and children.
First, you may be thinking "Dude, it's February." Yeah, yeah. You try making, let alone keeping, a resolution when you're working 12+ hour days trying to get a tax website launched. Go ahead - try it. Lemme know how that works out for you.
Second, if you know the particulars of our daily life in this Wall household, you may be thinking "Is it even physically possible to spend MORE time with your family than you do now?" I've got to admit, I've got a pretty sweet deal. Being able to work from home AND set my own hours is beyond a dream situation. And there are some weeks when we'll go DAYS in each other's company without a break. Unless you count sleeping. Which I don't considering the amount of talking people in this house do in their sleep. :)
But time spent occupying the same space isn't the same as time together, if you catch my meaning. So I've been thinking about it this week and solidified my resolution during my morning walk (yeah, I said it that way to make you think it's a common thing. Don't be fooled.) I want to spend more real time with each member of my family.
So far, for the whole day and a half (I was testing it out last night) I've been trying, it's been going awesome. I spent an hour last night playing with just Speed in his room (Hazel was on her computer or something). Honestly, my back hurt from sitting on the floor that long and my fat preggo belly hurt from him crawling on me, but it was a lot of fun to see him run around and bring me toys and make animal noises and jump on the bed. And I might be flattering myself, but I think he had fun too.
Then today when Jacob's planned trip to the office was postponed, I decided it was his turn. So we dropped the kids off with the in-laws (thanks again, Tevs) and headed out for a lunch date. We just got some gyros and frozen yogurt and talked for about an hour and a half but it was good to have time together, out of the house, just the two of us. We've been slacking a bit on our date nights lately with work being so busy and all, so I think I'll recommit to that as part of my resolution.
Hazel's still a bit harder. For starters, she just doesn't sit still long enough!! That girl is on hyper-speed lately. She'll sit for one book, maybe two and then she's off. Same with songs. Same with toys. Same with about anything except TV shows and computer games. Wonder where she gets that from. ::whistles innocently:: She has been asking me to sit and watch shows with her, so maybe I'll try doing that more often. I wouldn't think that would be a big memory-builder, but she does always remember the last time we sat down and watched the Phineas and Ferb movie together, so maybe it is for her. And everything IS better with Perry.
In the spirit of doing things that are more interactive, we decided to do a family date night tonight. We headed off to the big mall in Glendale (Arrowhead something-or-other) to walk around. It was a LOT of fun.
First thing when we walked through the door, Speed goes "WOW!!". Apparently he hasn't seen that many people in such a small space in a long time. We walked around for a bit and then took a stop in the board game store. The kids thought that was SUPER cool because they had rubber duckies that light up when you threw them on the floor. At least I'm hoping you were supposed to throw them on the floor. Oh well.
Then we headed downstairs to the Lego Store. With those prices, there was no way we were getting anything tonight, but that's ok - it's still fun to look. Hazel wanted to look in EVERY single model window to see what was inside. They had computers at kid level, so you can guess what Speed went for. They do have some fun stuff out. They even had a completed Super Star Destroyer on display. ::drool::
Next we hit up the Disney store. Now, despite having spent a week at DisneyWorld right after Speed was born, our kids are not super Disney fans. Probably because there isn't much Disney stuff on Netflix. Go figure. But from various sources (ok, cable TV when we're on vacation and merchandising), they do know Mickey and several of the other characters. And we do have a small, but growing selection of the good Disney movies. So I wasn't too surprised when they were excited to look at everything but not going crazy. Then they saw the plushes. Then they saw the Perry the Platypus plushes. I told you everything is better with Perry. Then Jake and I saw the "buy one get one free" sign on the plushes. Score!
To be fair to the Disney store, the plushes were quite reasonably priced even without the sale and Jacob had already said he would like to get them each something small at that store. But with the BOGO sale, they each got something medium. :) To further the BOGO love, after a quick stop at the play area (which was CRAZY packed), we treated ourselves to some BOGO Orange Julius before heading home.
Poor Speed didn't make it home conscious as he never settled down enough to take a nap today. But he's very happily snuggled in his bed with his new Nemo, so I don't think he minds. And Hazel is SO excited to "bring Perry to his NEW home" and has spent the night making him "talk" (he makes the Perry noise when you squeeze his paw). The last thing I heard her say tonight was "Good-night, Perry. Now be quiet." I'm thinking it was more than worth it.
Fun day and a fun night. We're off to go watch...something - Jacob hasn't picked yet - to finish out our date night. Gotta say, I love my family. I hope they always know and feel that.
First, you may be thinking "Dude, it's February." Yeah, yeah. You try making, let alone keeping, a resolution when you're working 12+ hour days trying to get a tax website launched. Go ahead - try it. Lemme know how that works out for you.
Second, if you know the particulars of our daily life in this Wall household, you may be thinking "Is it even physically possible to spend MORE time with your family than you do now?" I've got to admit, I've got a pretty sweet deal. Being able to work from home AND set my own hours is beyond a dream situation. And there are some weeks when we'll go DAYS in each other's company without a break. Unless you count sleeping. Which I don't considering the amount of talking people in this house do in their sleep. :)
But time spent occupying the same space isn't the same as time together, if you catch my meaning. So I've been thinking about it this week and solidified my resolution during my morning walk (yeah, I said it that way to make you think it's a common thing. Don't be fooled.) I want to spend more real time with each member of my family.
So far, for the whole day and a half (I was testing it out last night) I've been trying, it's been going awesome. I spent an hour last night playing with just Speed in his room (Hazel was on her computer or something). Honestly, my back hurt from sitting on the floor that long and my fat preggo belly hurt from him crawling on me, but it was a lot of fun to see him run around and bring me toys and make animal noises and jump on the bed. And I might be flattering myself, but I think he had fun too.
Then today when Jacob's planned trip to the office was postponed, I decided it was his turn. So we dropped the kids off with the in-laws (thanks again, Tevs) and headed out for a lunch date. We just got some gyros and frozen yogurt and talked for about an hour and a half but it was good to have time together, out of the house, just the two of us. We've been slacking a bit on our date nights lately with work being so busy and all, so I think I'll recommit to that as part of my resolution.
Hazel's still a bit harder. For starters, she just doesn't sit still long enough!! That girl is on hyper-speed lately. She'll sit for one book, maybe two and then she's off. Same with songs. Same with toys. Same with about anything except TV shows and computer games. Wonder where she gets that from. ::whistles innocently:: She has been asking me to sit and watch shows with her, so maybe I'll try doing that more often. I wouldn't think that would be a big memory-builder, but she does always remember the last time we sat down and watched the Phineas and Ferb movie together, so maybe it is for her. And everything IS better with Perry.
In the spirit of doing things that are more interactive, we decided to do a family date night tonight. We headed off to the big mall in Glendale (Arrowhead something-or-other) to walk around. It was a LOT of fun.
First thing when we walked through the door, Speed goes "WOW!!". Apparently he hasn't seen that many people in such a small space in a long time. We walked around for a bit and then took a stop in the board game store. The kids thought that was SUPER cool because they had rubber duckies that light up when you threw them on the floor. At least I'm hoping you were supposed to throw them on the floor. Oh well.
Then we headed downstairs to the Lego Store. With those prices, there was no way we were getting anything tonight, but that's ok - it's still fun to look. Hazel wanted to look in EVERY single model window to see what was inside. They had computers at kid level, so you can guess what Speed went for. They do have some fun stuff out. They even had a completed Super Star Destroyer on display. ::drool::
Next we hit up the Disney store. Now, despite having spent a week at DisneyWorld right after Speed was born, our kids are not super Disney fans. Probably because there isn't much Disney stuff on Netflix. Go figure. But from various sources (ok, cable TV when we're on vacation and merchandising), they do know Mickey and several of the other characters. And we do have a small, but growing selection of the good Disney movies. So I wasn't too surprised when they were excited to look at everything but not going crazy. Then they saw the plushes. Then they saw the Perry the Platypus plushes. I told you everything is better with Perry. Then Jake and I saw the "buy one get one free" sign on the plushes. Score!
To be fair to the Disney store, the plushes were quite reasonably priced even without the sale and Jacob had already said he would like to get them each something small at that store. But with the BOGO sale, they each got something medium. :) To further the BOGO love, after a quick stop at the play area (which was CRAZY packed), we treated ourselves to some BOGO Orange Julius before heading home.
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
January - The Monday of Months
I don't know about everybody else, but January was a tough month for me. I'd say mostly just because of work. Almost every day it seemed like there was a new emergency, or a new urgent thing that needed to be done, or just plain dealing with angry people. I'm used to days like this every once in a while, but almost every day for a month? That is difficult to endure. I am hoping February gets much easier - or at least 'normal'. It just seems like for a month straight I was exhausted and stressed.
The odd part is, besides work, January was a great month. I love to start out with new goals and work to achieve things. I've seen progress in my boys, our family, and my own personal life. I've lost nearly 10 pounds in January (can't believe I had that much to lose in the first place!). I started playing volleyball with Tevia, which has been fun. I've started running a mile a week and seen progress. Meals have been spectacular. Weekends have been fun. The weather ideal. So it is funny that I can base so much on a month ONLY by what happened at work. But even though we all know work isn't that important, it certainly can have a big impact on our lives. If ever there were a month that going to a bar after work and getting hammered sounded like a good idea, this was it! I used to think it was dumb to go drown your sorrows because as soon as you sober up, you have to deal with them again. But I think for the first time in my life I can see some logic in it. There is value in forgetting - or leaving behind - the stresses of the day and enjoy the evening. Yes, tomorrow you have to face them again, but at least you didn't spend all evening and night worrying about them. Don't think that I am planning to take action on this. I'm still not really tempted to drown my sorrows in alcohol (sorrows is the wrong word - stress would be better). But I can see how so many people do it on a daily basis. My guess is most people just really hate their jobs. That is too bad.
The good news is today was already a much better day. So hooray for February. As mentioned, January had some great moments. Here are a few:
- Seeing Jarek get inspired to work on family history and do some indexing. He continues to be a shining example to me. What a great spirit he is.
- Eating lunches with Enok. I love eating with Enok during lunch and seeing his bright disposition and eternal smile. It has been a much-needed break for my working days.
- Saying prayers with Malik. I love to hear Malik say his prayers (he likes to have either Tevia or I there to listen each night). He has a very grateful spirit and truly converses with his Father in Heaven.
- Spending nights watching Malcolm in the Middle with Tevia. I haven't enjoyed sitting watching a show with Tevia so much since watching BSG in Hong Kong each night. I look forward to it each night.
Life is great. I am so blessed. I love having my brother and sister in Phoenix. I look forward to having my parents move out here - someday. And Tommy and Holly. Families are forever.
The odd part is, besides work, January was a great month. I love to start out with new goals and work to achieve things. I've seen progress in my boys, our family, and my own personal life. I've lost nearly 10 pounds in January (can't believe I had that much to lose in the first place!). I started playing volleyball with Tevia, which has been fun. I've started running a mile a week and seen progress. Meals have been spectacular. Weekends have been fun. The weather ideal. So it is funny that I can base so much on a month ONLY by what happened at work. But even though we all know work isn't that important, it certainly can have a big impact on our lives. If ever there were a month that going to a bar after work and getting hammered sounded like a good idea, this was it! I used to think it was dumb to go drown your sorrows because as soon as you sober up, you have to deal with them again. But I think for the first time in my life I can see some logic in it. There is value in forgetting - or leaving behind - the stresses of the day and enjoy the evening. Yes, tomorrow you have to face them again, but at least you didn't spend all evening and night worrying about them. Don't think that I am planning to take action on this. I'm still not really tempted to drown my sorrows in alcohol (sorrows is the wrong word - stress would be better). But I can see how so many people do it on a daily basis. My guess is most people just really hate their jobs. That is too bad.
The good news is today was already a much better day. So hooray for February. As mentioned, January had some great moments. Here are a few:
- Seeing Jarek get inspired to work on family history and do some indexing. He continues to be a shining example to me. What a great spirit he is.
- Eating lunches with Enok. I love eating with Enok during lunch and seeing his bright disposition and eternal smile. It has been a much-needed break for my working days.
- Saying prayers with Malik. I love to hear Malik say his prayers (he likes to have either Tevia or I there to listen each night). He has a very grateful spirit and truly converses with his Father in Heaven.
- Spending nights watching Malcolm in the Middle with Tevia. I haven't enjoyed sitting watching a show with Tevia so much since watching BSG in Hong Kong each night. I look forward to it each night.
Life is great. I am so blessed. I love having my brother and sister in Phoenix. I look forward to having my parents move out here - someday. And Tommy and Holly. Families are forever.
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