Family History

Since apparently I am destined to be unemployed here in Denver I have been coming up with lots of ways to keep myself busy.  I am making Christmas stockings.  I think Mark thought I was crazy when I told him what I was doing when I started last month. I think he reminded me how far away Christmas was more than once :)  haha, they are actually turning out pretty darn cute if I do say so myself - a lot more time consuming then I initially thought but I guess for me right now, that's a good thing!

I am also starting to make our wedding scrapbook.  I have never really done the whole scrapbook thing - but I absolutely love them and so want to have them.  However, as much I love the immense creativity I see with other people's with all of the embellishments and ribbons and things of the sort, I am not sure I am quite up to the task.  I am trying to focus my efforts on journal-ing and the pictures.  It looks pretty simple, but I think I am okay with it.  Maybe once I get a little bit more done I will post some pictures of the pages.  My goal is to never get more that a year behind in our family scrapbook.  By the end of December I want to have the wedding scrapbook DONE!  Next year, I will work on the 2011 scrapbook.  We will see how the goal goes - I am optimistic. 

However, what has BY FAR kept me the most busy is doing family history work.  That has essentially become my full time job.  I spend hours and hours doing it.  In fact, I am pretty sure it is safe to say, the entire time Mark is at school I am on the computer researching.  What has been even MORE fun is that Mark has gotten really into it as well.  He obviously doesn't have as much time to do it as I - he's got that whole school thing going on at the moment :) - but he seems to really enjoy doing it as well.  In fact about a month ago when I first showed him how to look up things and add it onto our Personal Ancestry File and such, he stayed up till four in the morning looking up stuff.  He was bursting to show me all that he found when we got up the next morning.  It is so much fun to have this work to do together. 

We are actually planning on making a book.  We want to have someplace to put all of our research and stories and pictures and journals that we have found about our families.  We want to have something that we can pass along to our little kiddos someday.  It is so much fun to find out so many new things each day.  The one we are really excited about right now is yesterday, I found out that one of my grandpas way back when - was an adviser to the Prophet Joseph Smith.  He is listed in the Doctrine of Covenants four times.  I was VERY excited to say the least yesterday!  I learned that although he was not a perfect man - he was a good man.  Anyway, it is a wonderful thing to find out the legacy that was made before you and to try and continue that on in your own life.

Right now, I guess I am just trying to find my "purpose."  I don't really feel like I am getting any closer.  Just trying to not get discouraged but how un-exciting my life is right now I guess.  A job I interviewed for last week that was IDEAL - absolutely perfect - I got e-mailed yesterday from the principal telling me that they are not sure they can afford to hire me with the budget because they now have to hire another teacher.  Rarr...kind of discouraging.  Oh well, I just keep hoping that something will work out.  I guess for right now, maybe family history is what I am supposed to be doing.  So off I go - more research to do! :)