We're still at the beach and loving every minute of it. Minus a few things that we are dealing with back home which has given us several headaches and led to long phone calls. Every afternoon my Mom puts Sarah Grace down for a nap and I get to relax by the pool and read while the ocean breeze hits me. I haven't been able to get through my books as quickly as I thought due to me falling asleep and of course talking to my family that I'm only able to see once a year. But I'm very excited about the books I'm planning on reading while here. I'm currently reading Eat, Pray, Love and I'm really enjoying it. Next on the list is Charlie St. Cloud. Can't wait, my sister is currently reading that one and said she wanted to cry her eyes out after 20 pages. The second thing that has been occupying my evenings is family history. My uncle Paul brought down several old photo albums and a family tree for us to look at. I think the pedigree went as far back as 1620. We knew that we were German/Dutch and Scottish/Irish, but my sister and I did some digging and discovered that we are French. Who knew?! We stayed up Sunday night doing research and were able to go as far back as 990. Tonight my uncle and I did some digging and got back to 410. It wasn't too difficult to find all of this, I guess it helps when everyone in the family is french royalty. I can't even remember how many Kings, Counts, Barons and Duchesses we found. Oh we're even related to Charlamagne (which I hear a ton of people are.) Anyway, its been so much fun learning all of this and I now realize that I have a ton of temple work to do and I need to get my butt in gear. Not to mention all the super cute names I have found.
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Love finding cute names in your family tree. I read the eat pray love and didn't love it. But I can't remember why. . .I think she was too promiscuous or something like that.
I didn't even know that first one was a book made into a movie. You'll have to let me know how both of those are. Relaxing on the beach sounds awesome, so jealous. I love that you are able to look into your pedigrees. I can't believe how far back you guys got.
if you find any great names pass them this way, because i dont think it would look to good for a birth certificate to say "baby girl" anderson. :S how nice for you to be able to relax. i love that part of the day. i heard good things about "eat, pray, love" i think i'll see the movie first.
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