And More Nauvoo...

 Broc just about put his hand down on this beauty.

 This is the drainage canal the early saints built to divert the drainage off the bluff and dry out the "flats" where most of the buildings and houses were built. The stone arch bridge was built by the saints and still stands today.

 Norbert's anyone!  Our daily dose of pineapple whip.

This sweet little couple could barely walk but they could dance, Broc and I will be that in love at ninety!

 Welcome to the bunk bed dungeon, the boys had a blast down there.  Quincy, Jake, Trav, Grahm, Ben, Truman, Jeremiah, and, of course, TY. 

 Our beautiful honeymoon suite, I didn't think I would be sad to leave this place, I was. 

 This is a place called inspiration point, the prophet Joseph would come here for quiet time.

 Thought Papa Dean would love the picture of this barn. 

 Carriage rides through the country. 

 We took the martyrdom trail to Carthage, mostly a dirt road, beautiful country, 

we love you Joseph and Hyrum!

 Praise to the MAN!!

More Nauvoo ...

Visiting some of the homes in old Nauvoo, so fun to have Grammy and Duane there with us.

 Remember when I said we just had the trek experience of a lifetime, we have had another but in a different way.  We decided to do a three mile trek in Nauvoo, I thought, I've done a twenty five mile trek, this will be nothin'.  I was soooooo wrong.  Whoever mapped out this trek meant for you to have a real life experience of the terrain the saints must have run into.  I left Broc home with Ty sleeping and Quincy was asked to be a mentor on the stage, so off we went with Collin Austin and his boys and Danille, a friend of the Austin's.  I hope you can see the pictures close, this was quite the trek.  It had rained the night before and Trav kept sinking so deep in the mud he would lose his shoe and I would have to stick my hands in a foot deep to dig it out.  Ty woke up and Broc spent two hours trying to find us in this forest.  It was a great time, lot's of working together and some great exercise.  As always, I am so grateful to the pioneers and all the early saints, so much courage and faith and physical strength, I am a wimp. 

This was the view from our back porch.  Broc and I did a temple session one day and walked out to find the kids playing frisbee at the park right next to the temple.  As we walked home from the temple Broc and I both felt how happy the early saints were in Nauvoo.  They loved the temple, they felt safety and security, they worked so hard for this beautiful city. 

Nauvoo, we love you!

 I thought I'd better add these pics of Jake at the airport, 

this is how tired we all were. 

 At the city park with Grammy and Duane.

 We found this little Shack called Norbert's that served a Pineapple whip we all fell in love with.  We were sad when we had to say goodbye to Norbert, but happy when we discovered they have  pineapple whip at Disneyland, it might be out of our price range there.

Our AWESOME district, missing Doug Wadley, you'll see him later.  The guy next to Broc was our district leader Darren Hill, from England, he played the main character in the pageant.  Amazing man, a convert to the church with a sweet story, we learned so much from him.