Birthday Present

So...even though my birthday is still 3 days from now, Del and Daneen gave me their gift today and I got a gun! My very first gun. It is a P22 Walther. I went outside and practiced shooting it and it is great! It is light and pretty small and it shoots without much of a kick. I like it. Everyone thinks I should get my concealed weapons permit now. I don't know what I think about that, but we will see. I like my gun though! :-)

Another fun thing is that Del is going through his mid-life crisis right now and he decided to buy a few Harley Davidson motorcycles. We have been riding them around and it is a lot of fun. Even though it is about 45 degrees cold outside, we are enjoying the adrenaline rush of riding these beautiful motorcycles. We just have to dress up really warm.

Family History

So at church in our new area, I have been called to be a Family History Specialist. This year the stake president has asked that the adult members of all the wards look up 15 family names each and take them to the temple. This leaves our one ward alone with 2,205 names! This is a lot of names and I have been put in charge of coordinating the whole thing for our ward. It is a huge task, but things are going well so far, I think. I have actually really enjoyed learning how to do family history. It's quite addicting once you get into it.

Things here are starting to warm up a little bit. It has been in the mid-30's and 40's everyday now instead of 4 degrees. And the snow is melting which is good too. I hate driving in the snow. The other day I thought I was going to be driving over a large ice puddle, but when I started to drive through it, the ice cracked and I almost got my little Passat stuck in it. That was not a good feeling. I felt kinda like an idiot after that and my husband and father-in-law thought it was pretty funny when I told them about it too. For some reason, I'm just not smart when it comes to driving in the snow and ice. Hopefully I will get over that soon.