Way OT-Genealogy

I just saw your text. How's your dad?

OMG - He was able to convince the doctor to let him come home  My Moms is going to call today for his follow up appointment but he's back to his feisty self:

Me: How ya feeling Pops?
Pops: I "feel" with my hands.

So, it looks like we're back on for Saturday!

http://walkfromobesity.kintera.org/faf/home/default.asp?ievent=428788

Damn he's fiesty!  When he stops being a smart ass is when you'll really have to worry.

Where do you wanna meet up before hand?

Probably at the walk. What do you think?

That works for me.  I'm filling out the form now.

Since it's a gift... I would check with the family members who will be receiving it.  How do they feel about it?  I had always assumed my maiden name was a slave name but turns out it was and it wasn't.  The slave owner was their father and he raised all his slave children as house slaves...they helped him run the plantation.   His black kids ended up owning the plantation after slavery ended.  I've been trying to figure out how they pulled that one off since he died a couple of years before slavery ended and his last wife sold all his slave kids and their mom.. they came back and ended up with the plantation. 

We have a family crest as well since that part of the family came to this country from England during the founding of the colonies.  My family would accept a crest with no problem because they feel it is their real surname because the lineage is valid and not an appropriated or made up last name.