This first one is genealogy-related, so if you'll be bored to tears, just skip it: One family on Neenaw's family tree is named Steinhilber.  The family came to the United States in 1878, when mom Lena joined the Church and brought her girls with her from Germany.  They left father Johannes and sons Johann and Adam in the middle of the night, so the story goes.

(The book is quite anti-LDS and funny - Brigham Young is portrayed as an unpatriotic, power-hungry, land-grubbing ogre, and it's from this book I learned the phrase "Avenging Angels."  Isn't that a nice thing to have included with your genealogy?  I wonder if Nephi found any fun surprises like that one.)

One of the cousins whose name is mentioned in this book, emailed me this week.  She googled her family and found my stuff on Rootsweb.  That was SUPER exciting.  Wooo hoooo... I know the Internet is true!!!

This one is slightly more exciting:  Mom and Bob went to Vegas for Spring Break.  Last night, they went to see Wayne Brady's show ("Whose Line Is It Anyway?" and "Don't Forget the Lyrics").  OK, so Wayne and his helper dude did an improvisation sketch, the one where they're acting out a scene and they ask two audience members to provide sound effects - and my mom was asked to be one of the sound effects people!  She was so excited, she called me this morning.  She says - for your information - that Wayne is really short and skinny.  She had her picture taken with him afterward and he said to Bob about Mom, "You've got your hands full with this one!"  Roseanne was also in the audience and Mom says she looks really good, like she's lost a bunch of weight.

That's it for me... have anything exciting to share with the class?