Kirtland - A few weeks ago we decided to take a quick trip up to visit some church history sites.
I wish like crazy the LDS church owned the Kirtland Temple, but the Church of Christ does keep it up very well and the tour was really neat.
Stopping to smell the flowers
The church does own a whole block of sites that we were also able to tour including the Newel K. Whitney store, a schoolhouse, a couple homes and a lumber mill.
This is the Johnson farm about 30 minutes outside Kirtland. Joseph Smith was staying here when he was dragged out by the mob and tarred and feathered.
Cleveland - I didn't realize it was only 10 minutes outside of Kirtland so we took an afternoon and went to see what it had to offer. We just ended up walking around downtown for about 2 hours. It was actually one of the highlights of the trip. I couldn't believe how clean it was. And it had some of the coolest buildings ever. And lots of little parks.
The Cadillac of strollers. I love this thing. It's long but oh so wonderful.
We found this amazing lakeside park that was half dock, half grass. We played there for a long time.
Kayden spent most the time chasing seagulls. He got surprisingly close a couple times.
Morgan's Blessing - Just a couple days after coming home from our Kirtland mini-trip we flew to Utah to bless Morgan. We blessed her in Tyler's parent's ward on Aug 16th. I was sitting on the end of the bench so I had to stand up to let out the guys when it was time and I teared up when I looked over and saw nothing but women and kids left in the two benches we occupied. Every man there was a worthy priesthood holder. Awesome. I love the gospel.
These wonderful men were Brady(Tyler's brother), Troy(Tyler's brother), Justin(Tyler's bro-in-law), Tyler, Grandpa T(Tyler's dad), Grandpa W(my dad), Great-Grandpa I(my grandpa, Morgan's only surviving great-grandpa), Landon(my brother), and Shawn(my brother).
Kisses!
These pics were taken just a couple of days ago. Only two months old and she's already 12 lbs! She's in the 95th percentile for her age. She's exactly half the size of Kayden who's 24 lbs and only in the 25th percentile. It's crazy how different two siblings can be!
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They are so cute. Enjoy the journey. They will grow up so fast. ANd you are right every sibling is different!!!
Thanks for sharing Camille - you have a beautiful family.
I love family times like that. When Jared was little we took a trip to Kirtland, and then up to Niagara Falls and Palmyra. Precious, precious memories.
I have only seen you in passing since we've been bakc and I've never seen Morgan in person at all. This has to be remedied! :) Church is a hard time to talk to people when you have little ones.
How fun!! I LOVE the pic of Kayden walking by the chain and the seagull on that big pillar thing...cool!!
Morgan is absolutely beautiful!! And what a sweet brother Kayden is!!
Thanks for sharing (for the record...I like blogs better than facebook :)!!
It's fun to see new pics! It looks like your trip was really fun and that you got to see a lot of fun things! It was so fun to see you while you were here! I wish you didn't live so far away! You have the cutest kids, I love them to pieces!!
So cute!!! Your family is so adoarble. And I love Morgan's blessing dress it is beautiful.
Wow, I can't believe she is two months already! Where does the time go? I think she and Paige will be tall. Too bad we don't live closer so they could actually meet!
The pictures are awesome. I would love to see the church history sites someday. It was fun to see you while you were here. Thanks for taking time for us! Your family is beautiful!!
Your family is so cute!!! What a good mom you are!
What a gorgeous little blessing dress! There's something amazing about the power of the priesthood, and when you get that many guys in a circle, hovered around an infant, there's not many eyes that remained dry, I'm sure! Congratulations on a beautiful little girl!
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