Girls at Cubs!?

What is the world coming to? We had girls at Cub Scouts last night! P and C have a couple of their best friends whose parents work with the Cubs so they have to go with them to Cubs. Once they found out they have been begging to go with T so they can play with their friends. I am not sure who looks forward to Cubs now more. The cultral hall was filled with the squeal of girls playing. They had so much fun they did not want to come home.

Temple Fandango

The Church is moving to a new Family Search and Temple Ready program that is just awsome. It is being rolled out by Temple region and the Sacramento Temple is live on this now. If you have not all ready signed up I would highly recomend that you do. It is at http://new.familysearch.org/. It is simply incredible. You will need your membership# and confirmation date to register so talk to your Ward Clerk if you don't have this.

When you go in click on See Me and My Ancestors. Your geneology that the Church has on file will show. It has all the records for our family going very far back. That is just cool. But to make it even better you will see an icon by each family listing. It shows if all Temple work is done or not. If you see work is needed you click on the ordinance print out a sheet to take to the Temple, do the work and that day it is recorded as complete. No more duplication. This is Temple Fandago :).

I saw one family of Nathaniel Green Williams and Eliza Helen Wall that have a daughter Miss Miss Williams Birth: 8 November 1879 Provo, Utah, UT. Eliza was born in Nauvoo in 1843 so right in the heart of the early Church. Miss Miss Williams died before she was 8, likely at birth. However she is not sealed to her parents. There looks to be a duplicate as shares the birthdate of another daughter so unless it was twins. She needs to be sealed or the records merged. There is likely another duplicate in this family as well. The great part is that with everyone in the world in the Haws Family working on these records we are no longer duplicating our work.

(UPDATE: After poking around found how easy it was to compare records and merge duplicates. Once you carefully verify they are the same. Now the Temple work shows as complete for this family)

We are starting to enter Dolly's information that we got from her Dad when he passed away. Hope to connect into some known lines to help fill out more of her work.

This is the biggest thing to come to Family History and Temple Work ever in my opinion.

T's first pack meeting

The family all went to T's first Cub pack meeting last night. He kept asking all day long if it was time to get ready. They were not able to get T his Bobcat at this pack meeting as his paperwork was still getting processed so he will get it next time. We all know he has passed it off and look forward to him getting awarded the badge. He was very excited as he got his Pinewood Derby car kit and has pages of designs for us to look at and decide.

All the boys got to help tell a silly story by reading slips of paper. You can see T waiting patiently for his turn to read.

Am I Crazy?

Ok, not sure if I am crazy or just drawn to the strange. I have once again started that silly, frustrating licsense plate game to find plates with each number in order. It actually took me a couple of days to get to my current number of 10. Yes that is right, I am at the big huge number of 10. Going to see how it goes to get to 100. Then I will decide if I am up for the challenge of getting to 999. I think Mom made it that high before she had enough.

A Cub helps the Pack go

T was super excited to put on his new Cub uniform and start his adventures in Scouting. He has all ready passed off all his requirements for his Bobcat badge and will get that in a couple of weeks at his very first pack meeting. He is spending lots of time reading his Wolf book and has all ready started a few projects from the book.

Activity Days here we come

P was very excited. Tuesday she got to attend Activity days not only with her big sister C but with Mom as well. Mom is an assistant for Activity days so both girls think it is pretty cool that she is there. P has been looking forward to going with them for many many months now.

I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your fence down

Running behind on my updates but hey I was on vactation and was taking it easy. The weather here did not take it that easy though. On Friday there was a severe wind and rain storm that blew through all of the West Coast. We got hit with some very strong winds. All over the area there were trees and fences down. Some very big trees came down in the area.

We were very lucky with no damage to our house and did not lose power. We did however lose a few sections of our fence in the backyard. Our neighbor lost his whole fence so we are not too bad. The fencing was old and rotted at the base so not a surprise that it came down. Just a bummer. Going to Home Depot today for materials to fix this. Going to have to replace about four posts and at least half the main 2x4's. Most of the fence slats are ok to keep.