The Hearts of the Children

As many of you may know, the 1940 census was recently released. 

I've been trying to get at least one batch indexed from as many states as I possibly can (some states are already  complete so there's no hope of getting them all, otherwise I would). 

I found my grandparents and my great-grandparents.  It was very exciting to see their names on the census and feel the brief connection with my Grandma. 

Gosh, I miss her. 

In my search for my grandparents I had a little chat with my dad and found out some things I didn't know before. I had always assumed that my grandparents had met in Utah since they were both born here. 

Turns out I was wrong.

Grandpa was living with family in National City, California and Grandma moved to National City to live with her Aunt. He was a linoleum layer. She worked at an orange packing plant. They met at a church dance, fell in love and traveled back to Utah to get married in the Salt Lake temple (where we were married 66 years later to the day).

My dad assumed that they were both in National City in 1940 since they got married in 1941, but I was already halfway done searching Brigham City records when I found Grandma. She was still living with her mother and was only 17.  She was a mere year away from being sealed to Grandpa.

This year the Brigham City Temple will be completed. The new temple sits on the plot where Grandma used to live. I cannot wait to go. 

I love family history. 

I love to know who and where we came from.

I love that we can be together forever.

That knowledge keeps me going.

Random Update

Life is going on here. Some days are worse than others. I find myself breaking down over seemingly small things every now and then. I'm lucky to have some awesome friends and family and the gospel to keep me grounded. 

Don't give up.

Don't you quit.

You keep walking.

You keep trying.

There is happiness ahead...

You keep your chin up

It will be alright in the end.

Trust in god and believe in good things to come.

- Elder Holland

Anyways, onto happier things:

I did some more sewing (of course). A vest for James and a shirt for myself. 

Dr. Seuss' Birthday

We made a cat in the hat hat from paper, tape and a paper plate, and read a bunch of the books. 

St. Patrick's Day

James loves green. He LOVES it. Seriously. It's his favorite color (he says so several times a day). He firmly believes that almost everything would be better if it were green So you can see why I was excited about St. Patrick's Day this year-it's GREEN day!

We all wore our green shirts (no pictures of this...oops), had a green breakfast of waffles and green fruit salad. James wore his special green hat all day long and we made a fun rainbow craft and did an awesome preschool packet. He had a blast!

Easter

We took James to an Easter egg hunt at the BYU football stadium. We got him a Cosmo DVD for Christmas and he's been obsessed with Cosmo ever since. He was more excited to meet Cosmo then he was to hunt eggs. It was fun though.

 

On Easter Sunday we went to my parent's house and James had a little egg hunt there as well. He had so much fun. Uncle Ryan even showed him how to throw rocks. Yay. 

James Being Silly

 Oh, and I also made James some new bedding! I actually did this the day before the miscarriage and totally forgot about it! I wish I had a better camera. It's pretty awesome though.