Friday, July 25, 2008

She's home






So after 5 long weeks, Pam arrived early this morning at 1:30am. I stayed up for her, which was no problem, because I haven't been able to sleep at night anyway. Five weeks, what was she thinking? I woke up this morning with someone next to me. At first, I was startled and got a little scared, but then I realized I have a wife and her name is Pam. She is really tan and really tired. It seems as though the job wasn't as easy as she thought. Although, she want's me and Chad to go with her next year and work there. I said we'll have to wait and see. Since my soulmate left, I decided to grow a soulpatch to compensate. She took one look.....I'm shaving it tomorrow. She also bought me several Hawaiian shirts. I'm going to wear one to church with a tie.




Needless to say, I am extremely glad she is home and so is Duffy. I'm posting some photos of the mystery person I woke up to this morning and a couple of Duffy when he first saw Pam again. He put his paws on her and wouldn't let her move. Seriously, he wouldn't move an inch. He just kept his paws on her. She tried to get up and he would have none of it. I let him in this morning also and he did the same thing to her in bed. He wouldn't let her move. I'm going to try that same thing next year when she wants to go to Hawaii again.




In other news, our Arnett family geneologist, Wayne, discovered that we do not have an ancestor from Germany. It seems that the acronym G.BT. was mistaken for GER. She's from Ireland. It still doesn't explain the behavior of some of you.




Syd and Cameron have become quite the buddies. Not sure how much I like it. They gang up on me and call me "Unkie" to make fun of me. I do admit, though, that Syd is fast becoming my favorite niece. She does my dishes and get's me Dr. Pepper from QT. What more could an "Unkie" ask for?

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Saturday, July 05, 2008

New photos of family members




HB and Penee, Syd and Lex and Canyon Rosie are down from Utah to visit Miley. We had a taco night with Cliff's family and some other friends. I received a CD with photos of Howard and Ethel from Candy which I'll be using later to compile our Cibola/Blythe history DVD. Also Penee brought some photos for Chea of Cliff's family that she has taken over the years. I'm supposed to give them to Chea, and I will eventually, but I decided to post them here and get a "scoop" on everyone else. Besides, my wife is in one of them, and man is she "hot".

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

A German ancestor

I know most of you are not as interested in Germany as much as I am, but you might want to know that in adddition to having A.S.S., you also have an ancestor from Germany. Our Arnett (Arnet, Arnot, Arnott, Arnette) roots have not been "rooted" out yet, but we do have some Gale family history that takes us to Germany. It seems as though, Henry Gale's wife (Sarah Gale), whom he married in or around Sydney, Australia is a daughter of one Elizabeth Mc Audra who was born in Shoudey, Germany. She married Tom Wills and they moved to Sydney. So there you have it. We are part German. Come to think of it, several of you look German and several of you act German. Here is the actual geneology information on Elizabeth. I've tried to find Shoudey, Germany, but it seems it presently doesn't exist. What if it was in Elder Arnett's mission? Huh...........

Elizabeth Mc Audra, ABT 1798 - Shoudey, Germany
Individual Note: Spelling varies in Gale Book from McAudry (p. 17) to McAudra (p. 7).Merle O'Shannasy spelled it McAndrew.