Finished!

I have a hard time doing anything but geneology these days. This morning I decided to make myself a list of things I need to do and then work on everything on the list before I could go to the library to do research. First on my list was to finish the quilts for Jenny and Nicole's babies. So I finally got them done! Jenny's is pretty calm.

Nicole's is pretty wild and the border didn't really tone it down at all. Now for the rest of my list!

Another Week at the Quincys

Josh and Meg went to Lake Mead last week. They were at her sister's house in Las Vegas on Meg's birthday. So Monday she finally got her present.I have been hanging out at the library! I do geneology research every spare minute. I get home from work. Grab my geneology folder and stay there until its time to pick up Jonathan from swim. Jenny does her research at home. We may have some names ready for temple work any mintue now!
Thursday I had the book club over. Friday after work I got to take Christopher to the Cub Jungle Safari. No pictures; Richard took the camera that day.
Friday Richard took the retirement center folks on a field trip. They rode the Heber Creeper.Saturday Levi was baptized. Jonathan drove us all the way to Stansbury Park, Lake Point and then back. He says that he'll never drive with Dad and I both in the car at the same time again. The conflicting instructions drove him crazy! He did very well for his first time on the freeway!Levi got home and changed before I could get a picture of him. Congrats Levi! Dallin baptized him, so that was very cool!Here's Jonathan and Jodi hanging out by the piano, of course!Poor Grandpa had surgery on Friday, I think. I believe he had a detached retina. He has to stay like this, preferrably on his stomach, laying down for a whole week. Grandma is a great nurse and keeps him in line and gets his eye drops in for him.Nancy is a recently made grandmother and I had to take a picture of this plaque on her wall. If you can't read it; it says; "Every time a child is born, so is a grandma". Notice the many pictures of Wes.Here's a couple of the cute couples there. Kevin and Emily are getting married in November and Camilla and Jacob have been married for almost 2 years!We finally got to have Meg's birthday dinner yesterday! All of the local folk, but Matt made it. He was sick. We missed you Matt, hope you're feeling better today!

We had fun remembering stuff. I did not know that Jack and Joni shared a room for like 5 years! I don't remember that! Stephanie found out about Jack biting Joni and Meg found out about how mean Josh was to all of Joni's friends.

Josh thinks its his job to find things for Richard to buy on KSL.com.

Jason even called and got to join in on some of the partying and birthday wishes!

We are so blessed to have Meg in our family! She is such a sweetie and she brings out the best in Josh! Josh gave Meg a sewing machine for her birthday and she has started pieceing a quilt. I should have taken a picture of the quilt block she brought. It is really nice work and will be a really beautiful quilt!

Alert!

Heads up everyone! Jonathan has his driving permit!

Park City Fall Classic

Jonathan swam just one day of the meet. He swam the 200 free, the 100 back and the 50 free. He didn't get a best time on this 50 free, but it was the best video Richard took, so its the one I'm sharing. He's looking pretty good, isn't he?

And just a small yell of "Hip-Hip Hooray"! for the temple in Concepcion, Chile!!!

Richard working here there and everywhere

Last week Richard started another job. He drives the folks at the Legacy Retirement Center around to appointments, the grocery store and on sight seeing. He trained on Monday and Tuesday and worked on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
This week he started out early Monday morning helping the Perrys move their play house.
He then painted the Herget's barn the rest of the day Monday and all of Tuesday, barely getting it painted before the storm hit. Sorry no pictures of the barn.
Richard took a group of the Legacy crowd to the Gardner Village witches walk this morning.
Then he took another group on sight seeing trip to see the leaves on the Alpine loop this afternoon. I'm sure that they all love him! He seems to be able to do anything!

The Spirit of Elijah and Madison

While Jenny and James were here for our Sacrament Meeting we had an inspiring talk or two on doing geneology. The thing that hit me was a story about almost losing an ancester because the only living person who knew about her died soon after sharing that knowledge. So I decided its time to find Ed's ancesters (Richard's step-dad). After all Richard is sealed to him!

The fun thing is that Jenny got inspired at the same time and she's been working on family history stuff, too. I've been trying to duplicate info I found years ago from the 1920 and 1930 censuses and am too cheap to pay the $19 a month ancestry.com fee. Today I discovered that my good old library card gives me access to stuff right here! I found all of Ed's brothers and sisters, including a twin brother I didn't know about (see lines 90 and 91)!

I got to watch Madison for a few minutes yesterday. She saw the camera and wanted me to take her picture. Who could resist such a cutie?

Update!

We can all relax now! My brave, smart husband put a trap under the stove and caught a mouse! I may even be able to sleep tonight!