My friend Robin Olson is our genealogy person at church. She invited me to begin my family's work. I started a couple of months ago and have had a little bit of success. Mostly, I've developed a greater love of family, or extended family. My Aunt Claressa keeps adding more names on my mom's side, and my dad's side seems to have everyone's work done. I'll keep going and digging around. For now, I've started adding my siblings and their families since it is hard to go back and find cousins of relatives.  People will keep track of their family, but when it comes to linking siblings spouses and children, that's where the breakdown begins.  So, I'm typing in as much as I can, and will then begin emailing siblings and cousins to link in their info.
I go every Wednesday night for 1 1/2 - 2 hours, and I enjoy looking at the census records and such. I saw an entry when my Grandma Gertrude was 6 years old. It's weird to think of my grandma at the age of 6! Makes you look at old pictures as real people who had real lives. Families are forever!

I am told that I need to blog what we are doing, but I don't have cute little kids to post. I've decided I'm going to try anyway. I love reading and seeing everyone else's life, maybe some might like to see what is going on in mine. Lately, we've had Maddie attend the prom with Octavio, Melisse is now working 2 jobs, and Mallory is trying to decide what she wants to be when she grows up. (Little does she know that I'm still trying to make that decision!) Megan, Trevor, and Andrew are still far, far away in Alabama, but we are going to see them this summer. Can't wait!