More Nauvoo

Joseph and Hyrum statue just across from the Nauvoo Temple.
Iowa Flooding-there isn't supposed to be water here-it's a field.

Five years

In July to celebrate our 5 year anniversary Braden and I left the kids with family and drove across country to Nauvoo, Il. It was an awesome trip. I am amazed with America landscape. The Grand Canyon, Corn, Corn and more Corn, green lush fields, rivers, creeks and rivers...Braden and I loved watching the scenery change.

The Grand Canyon-it was a bit out of the way but we HAD to go to the Grand Canyon! I didn't hike or anything seeing how I was 6 months pregnant at the time. (I thought I was so big and now I'm 36 weeks, ha-I was so little on that trip!)
The Mississippi!!!!!! I've wanted to see the Mississippi ever since 1990 when for school that year we studied "Adventures Down the Mississippi". Braden couldn't believe how excited I was to drive over it. This next quote is for my family: "Steamboat cross the Mississippi River!
5 years of marriage. How many of them happy? 5.
The Nauvoo Temple-I'm glad we made it to Nauvoo after the temple was rebuilt. We came out of it just at sunset-it was just beautiful. I loved Nauvoo-the pagaent was awesome, we watched it twice.
We stayed in a bed and breakfast in a home that used to be Willard Richard's. It was down on the flats of Nauvoo-walking distance to the old town.