We left Kirksville about 10 and drove to Kansas City. We decided to take the kids to a professional baseball game. Andrew was very excited because he is playing on a baseball team at home. Also while we were Kansas City mark wanted to visit one of the best places to have barbeque in Kansas City.Lunch at the barbeque place was great and the kids had a great time. The baseball game was great until after the 1st inning it started to pour. So they called the game off for an hour and we sat in the rain. After an hour we decided to leave because the kids were wet and cold. Unfortunatly right as we were leaving the stadium they started the game again and if they only play 6 innings or less they refund your money so we were hoping that the rain would start again and they would not be able to play any more but they played 6 innings and then it started raining and they called the game. The kids had fun at the game anyway that is our luck we drive 22 hours to get there and it rains oh well.
Sunday, July 6, 2008
May 9 Columbia trip to Bonkers!
Today we drove about 90 minutes to Columbia and went to a place called BONKERS! It is an inside playground that was made with seatbelt material and they have made a obstical course inside a building! Andrew said can we come back here for my birthday! I said it sure is a long drive to get here! Adults and children are allowed to play we had a great time with spencer my brother and his kids! Spencer said he would love to build a place like this in Utah because he would make a killing. After spending a couple of hours playing we went to dinner at Applebees and then drove back to Kirksville. Thanks Spencer and Mindy for a fun vacation. Tommorrow we are leaving and driving to Kansas City.
May 8 Nauvoo ILL NAUVOO TEMPLE
Today Mark and I were able to attend a session at the Nauvoo temple. What an exciting place to be and be serving the lord. The temple is absolutly gorgeous inside and the outside is very beautiful as well. I am so blessed to be here and serve the lord. I have been thinking how the pioneers must have felt to leave this beautiful place and how they had to leave there temple that they had worked so hard to build and they had to leave it behind because of the mobs driving them out of Nauvoo. I am grateful for my ancestors and for all they went through so I can have what I have in this life. We as a family stayed at the Nauvoo family inn and it was a lot of fun. After atteding the temple we picked up the kids at the hotel and then went and took pictures in front of the temple. We also went to the land office where you can research your ancestors and where there plot of land was in the town of Nauvoo. Mark had many relatives that lived in Nauvoo and Mark and Noelle and Andrew spent a few hours in the land office researching his relatives and they also made a disk with all of the infromation on it so that we can put it in the church path system to make sure all of the work for them has been done! After spending the afternoon in Nauvoo we drove back to Kirksville to spend another night with my brother!
Nauvoo ILL MAY 7 2008
Today is my 35 th birthday I am so lucky to be spending it with my family in Nauvoo. We were able to go on a wagon ride around Nauvoo. We then went to the brickyard, the tin shop the school, the blacksmith and the childrens center. This center has dressups that the kids can dress up like the people in Nauvoo and they also have games and activities that children in Nauvoo would play. Aubrey was so excited to dress up and the pictures I took of her and Jonah are priceless to me. After spending the day in Nauvoo we went to dinner at a buffet and the kids were kind of bummed because they did not have a cake for me but it was ok because I was with all of the people in my family that I love. What a Great Birthday!
