Nauvoo Bliss

For Memorial day weekend we went on a fun trip to Quincy and Nauvoo Illinois to see Jordan, Stephanie, and Kourtney.  It was a fun trip with beautiful weather.  We arrived late Friday night, but made time to go swimming at the hotel pool with everyone.  Landon is a big chicken and hates any splashing water, that and the fact that he was tired made him a little grumpy.  We had fun and then prepared for the big day the next day.  We traveled to Nauvoo for the day and went through a session in the Nauvoo temple with Stephanie taking out her endowments.  Then we proceeded to have a white wedding or sealing for Jordan, Steph, and Kourtney.  It was an amazing experience and beautiful temple.  The last sealing we attended was 7 years ago so it was a great experience and reminder of our blessings.  Here is a picture of the fam afterwards.  

After the temple we enjoyed Nauvoo for a bit and then went out to a nice dinner afterwards.  Thanks dad for splurging on us!  Then we headed back to Quincy and the girls went out for some karoake.  I'm not very good, but I had a lot of fun until duty called and we went back to the screaming, tired children.  I did learn that Steph and Mindy are quite the performers.  This was the only picture we managed to take the whole trip of Colter sleeping on the way back to Quincy.  The good news is that we don't have embarrassing pictures of anyone else.

  

 Sunday we went to church and then just hung out with family that evening eating dinner and making smores.  Mark and Krystal and the fam drove over to Quincy and we went to the park and played for a few hours.  Krystal and I compared pregnancies and bellies while the kids ran around and around.  Landon adored having his older cousins there and did his best to keep up with them.  When he couldn't they helped him up tubes and down slides.  We sure miss them and wish we were even closer to spend some quality time.  Those kids are sure getting big I still remember them as babies and toddling around like Landon.  It will be good to get closer to home and hopefully these next two additions will live close enough to be good playmates.    Monday we packed up, played some wii and headed out for the long drive back to Kentucky.  We had a great trip and hope that all is going well for everyone and hope to see them all soon.