The Beginning of Autumn

 In September, Marshall and I had some really fun dates. We are loving married life, even with all of the little adjustments that all newly-weds experience. We are both the happiest we have ever been and totally still in the "honeymoon" phase, but at the same time settling into our new roles as husband and wife. 

Marshall surprised me with an awesome date of taking me to the circus. Neither of us had been in a long time so it was really fun to see all of the new circus acts. It seems like Ringling Bros. is trying to be a little more like Cirque du Soleil, but they still have the traditional acts as well.

 The next day, we went to a local orchard to pick apples, then to the This is the Place memorial park. It was a great beginning to the fall season. We also made the tastiest apple pie ever with the apples we picked.

In this small one room cabin, a man lived with his wife and 7 kids, then he married a second wife and had more children with her. The 2nd wife lived in a lean-to in the backyard with her daughters, and all of the sons had to climb a ladder on the outside of the cabin to get to the loft where they slept. I am so grateful for everything the early saints went through, but feel so blessed that I live today and not back then. 

  Below is a picture of the Heber C. Kimball home.

 The last day of September, we flew to California, then went to Disneyland on October 1st to see all of the Halloween decorations. It was so much fun!

The lines were super long to get in the park, but we still had fun waiting and seeing the decorations on the front gates. We decided they need to make a line for guests with no children and strollers. haha!

 It was great weather, but really hot and humid, so Marshall decided to play in the water, in the Bugs Life area of California Adventure, with all of the kids. It really helped cool him off though.

 What a great month!!

Family History

I have been feeling a lot of nudges lately to work on my family history. We have heard tons about it in our new ward, I keep seeing stuff online about it and I found a show called "Who Do You Think You Are?" on tv. I am in love with this show!

During my last trip to Vegas, my amazing mom gave me all of the information she has from her own search for family history. So, when I was watching this show last night, I decided to check out ancesty.com, because they always use it on the show. I don't have a membership, but my mom has been on there before, so I signed in with her account. Long story short, she has a cousin that has put a lot of information from my mom's father's side on there, so I thought that was really neat to find. Then, I started searching a little for my dad's side, since no work has been done for that part of my family. I only found a few names, but I found out a few really cool things. 

First... My middle name is Emily, after my grandmother, Emily Frances Daniel. Turns out that she was also named after her grandmother, Emily Alice Goetz, and her father actually came to the US from Germany.  We had no idea there was German in our family history.

Second... I think we have ancestors from many more countries than we have always thought. There are a ton from England, but we also have quite a bit from Scotland, Ireland, France and Germany.

Third... When I put all of the names I found into the church website, New.FamilySearch.Org, our line connected to another line which has a whole bunch of Knights, Dukes, and Kings. My brother, Adam and I thought this was amazing. We have kings from a ton of different countries, including England, France, Sweden, Denmark, Turkey and King of Trojans (whatever that is). Adam kept following one of the lines back and it ended up going all the way to Adam and Eve!! Don't believe it? Here's proof...

I was so surprised when Adam called and told me he had gone that far back. I don't know if it is all correct, but I think it is amazing that we have the resources now to do something like this. I am definitely becoming more and more hooked on family history!

More Wedding....

These are all of the professional pictures we have back from our wedding so far. We will be getting more next week. They are in 3 posts, so make sure you keep scrolling down to see all of them. :)