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The genealogy project continues… Tonight I’ve been working on the ancestry wiki page for my great grandfather James Elgie Beals.  He died when I was nine years old, yet I don’t remember if I ever met him. The information for this page has come from a combination of photos and clippings from my dad’s drawer [...]

Stayed up way to late last night posting stuff.  I have massive amounts of information from my past work that I need to post, and I’ve started to get some pictures and stories in from relatives I’ve been querying. So last night I got my dad’s first wife’s (Theora Frances Alexander) page up, thanks to my [...]

I’ve recently jumped back into my genealogy project and have decided to enter all documented findings into a massive ancestry wiki section of this site: Beals/Hall Ancestry. I’m steadily working down my direct line first, and have got the pages for my parents, Larry and Carol Beals, updated as well as the page for Larry’s [...]

Part I covered our first morning in Disneyland and Part II picks up at Small World – which was one of my very favorite rides – it was beautiful!!  As you will see here, I went crazy with the pictures, and even got a video of the entire wonderful ride! This is a culmination of Small [...]

This Spring my daughter, sister in law, and I went to Disneyland – the weather was perfecto and we got to ride just about everything numerous times.  Since I haven’t managed to turn these digital photos of our Disneyland trip into physical photos, I thought I was high time I displayed them somewhere other than [...]

Our daughter got to ride in the St. Stephen’s float in the B. A. Christmas parade this year and my husband got this awesome shot: OK, I’m definitely hiring him on as my photographer for my sites! And I’m off – it’s a weekend full of Christmas rehearsals, shows and holiday meals.

Since I have so much to be thankful for, and since it is Thanksgiving, I wanted to do a stream-of-consciousness post on 101 things I’m thankful for.  I thought about ordering them at first, but that just didn’t seem right somehow. 1. Natasha, Natasha, Natasha, Natasha, Natasha; my sweetest of sweets daughter.  I’ve been ‘in [...]

It felt like my family and I spent the whole of October celebrating Halloween; or at least celebrating the cool weather and the orange backdrop of fall, as well as out-of-town family & friends coming and going. Our family loves fall anyway and we always get an early start on the festivities… this year it [...]

We recently took a weekend road trip to OKC where we went to the zoo, the science museum, the art museum, and the botanical gardens and I just posted a lot of the pictures and trip details over at The Zoo Review - check it out!

Just like Hemingway. He showed me anyway. You can be a hero, all you have to know is what to say. Unfortunately, I don’t always know what to say… but I do have a penchant for words and that’s why I was delighted to discover Hemingway in my family tree!  He’s not in the direct [...]