10 year "Engageaversary"

Jason and I were at my cousin Melissa's wedding in Virginia Beach. At the reception he 

caught the garter and I caught the bouquet. It was a sign... The next day October 13th our

 flight back to Texas, Jason kept asking me to stand up and move back a row. I didn't know it 

was so he could get down on his knee and propose. I didn't stand up because 9/11 had just

 happened the year before and I didn't want to freak anyone out by changing seats, so he

 had to think of another way.

So he borrowed my palm pilot and found the date 3/22/03. Then he typed "My wedding" 

and handed it back to me. Since it wasn't 2003 and (at that moment) I was not engaged, I 

thought he had someone else's palm pilot!!! While I was staring at it trying to figure out who's 

it was, he pulled my Grandmother's 50th wedding anniversary ring off my right hand and 

then put it on my left hand (We had discussed him using it before). Of course I said, "YES!!"

After we landed Mom picked us up and asked how the flight went. I kinda shook my left 

hand and said "This guy proposed to this girl <pause for reaction> and she said yes!!" Mom 

did not catch on at first. Then we walked over to baggage claim and Mom finally asked me 

what the ring was doing on my left hand. I just said, "Remember that couple on the plane 

that I told you about....."

I apologize for the weird layout.... Havent used this in a while......

Wow, It's Been a While...

Sorry for my lack in posts. I've been very busy lately helping out friends and working on my family tree. I have been working on every single branch of my and my husband's family tree. So far I have not found any proof to the rumor that my maternal grandfather's cousin was the tin man on the "Wizard of Oz", but on my paternal side, I did find out that one of my seventh great grandfather's was Hans Herr. He was the first Mennonite bishop in the new world. His house was built by his son Christian Herr in 1719 is the oldest Pennsylvania German settlement still in existence today. Their house is open to the public as a museum, and is located at 1849 Hans Herr Drive in Willow Street, Pennsylvania. I would really like to visit there one day.

In Portsmouth Ohio (where my parents are both from) on my maternal grandma's branches there is a street named after her family, which I believe my grandma's great granddad's was one of the first settlers in Portsmouth. I have also seen (or heard of) at least 2 or 3 car dealerships in Portsmouth run by very distant family cousins with other last-names. My paternal Granddad was Portsmouth's mayor back in the 1950's.

With the help of some of my cousins and one of my uncles, I have been able to put faces to several names on my tree. More recently with help from a tweet to ancestry.com and the "Barefoot Genealogist", I was able to locate marriage records for a set of my paternal great grandparents and one of their sets of parents.

Time to get back to my research!!!