Spring Break

For those of you who were wondering what we did for Spring Break...

On Monday we left around 2pm and headed down to Park City following as closely as we could to the relay race Daniel will be running in June. When we reached Park City we made a quick pit stop at McDonald's to eat and check our e-mails. So cool that places are providing WiFi! After a couple of wrong turns...we went to the Olympic Park. We had a great time there, everything is free, you can even walk around the park for free if you would like. We paid $7 each to go on a shuttle bus where a tour guide explained everything to us. The tour guide was able to tell us all sorts of cool facts about the sports and how they train in the summer. After that we went to main street Park City to walk around and so I could buy a magnet.

On our way back to my house we stopped and bought some running shoes. We stayed the night at my parents' house.

On Tuesday we picked my dad up from his work and went to a German deli. We had some good food there! We then dropped my dad off and went to the Old Dutch Shope to buy some European candies. After that we headed up to Kaysville and put together a bookshelf.

On Wednesday we went to Rachel's school play. It was so cute! I loved it. I was glad she wasn't a book worm like she wanted to be...I thought that they were annoying. We then packed up and went home and spent the rest of the week watching almost every NCAA Men's Basketball Game.

I Did It!

It took me 9 months but I just finished transferring all of the names in my Grandma Peeler's PAF file to mine! Now I need to go back through the list to compare what New Family Search has. Anyway I just wanted to share my joy!

USU Vs. Fresno State

Family History

First of all I would like to say how grateful I am that I have the time and the desire to do Family History work. :)

I have almosted indexed 10,000 names!

Right now I am working on my Peeler PAF files, I am updating them from what my Grandmother had. I am to the Surnames that start with T! Only T,U,V,W,X,Y, and Z left. I hope to complete them before the one year anniversary of my Grandmother's death.

There have been some frustrations with the family history work:

First, I have about 3 great-something- grandmothers who supposedly were never married. I have searched birth records, death records, and censuses and they were never listed with any husbands.

I really want to know where the Garrett's come from. Today I tackled Moses Gerritt/Garrett, he was born in the Netherlands and died in Pennsylvania. I was able to find his death record but that was about it. There might be something to Grandma Garrett saying they're Jewish though, there was a Moses Gerrits in Pennsylvania who buried his son in a Hebrew cemetery.

I did have some success today though, I was able to go back to Danie's 14th Great Grandfather, William Gillespie born around 1510 in Scotland.

My number one fear is that somehow someday I will loose all my PAF files. To prevent this I keep them on my jump drive as well, but you never know.

The good, the bad, the funny...

Word to the wise...never say things can only go up from here...trust me they can always go farther down. Last week when I locked my keys in my truck I said, "Well things can only go up!" No, it should be things could be worse! This morning I backed into our front door neighbor as he was also pulling onto the strett. :( That was not fun, I was shooken up all day.
Luckily today was a practicum day so I got to spend it with an amazing teacher and 1st graders! :)
This morning the teacher asked the students what they do in school on Saturdays, of course they answered that they don't go to school on Saturdays. She asked them what another day was that they don't go to school on. They said Sunday. This funny boy I was standing by said mostly to himself, "We go to church, to learn about Jesus." It was funny
The kids took math tests today, the teacher told them to cover their answers when they were finished. Some of them covered just the answer that was correct with their finger, leaving the rest to be seen.
Today I received my first teacher note it read:
Dear Mrs. Garret,
Thanks for all your hard teaching. You are the best! I hope you have a great time as a real teacher. I hope that you get to have fun.
Love,
D and R
Sometimes life is good, sometimes bad, but it is always funny

Some interesting things happened at church today. The first thing was hilarious, during the sacrament, a little boy sitting next to us pressed a button on his Lightning McQueen car and in the dead silence it said, "The Checkered Flag is Mine." The talks today were about weaknesses and how we all have them to over come them. The second speaker talked about how he doesn't have empathy for people and in my head I was like, "Where is this going?" Then I was touched, he was with the group of people who went to Nutty Putty Caves Thanksgiving week. He is good friends with the brother of the guy who died. He said that he had overcome his weekness because he was one of the people that stayed with and comforted the guy stuck in the cave.
During Primary we taught the kids about the Fall of Adam and Eve, I was surprised because they actually enjoyed reading in the scriptures this week. During sharing time Dan had a contact come out. All the kids looked at me questionably as he left to fix it, I told them his eye had fallen out. I love teaching Primary with Daniel.