Nauvoo

I've been waiting for a great desire to say something wonderful about the pictures that I have had uploaded for this post for quite some time. So I'm sorry if my ramblings aren't very enthusiastic. I wanted to just say "We went to Nauvoo, here are some pictures", but I know I'll be mad at myself when it comes time to publish the blog again and I have to remember what happened. It really was a wonderful trip that we had with Grandma and Grandpa Gonzalez. It was a very hot day, but the kids did great. The first order of business was the temple. First Jason and I were able to go, and then we switched off with the kids and they went. So, we decided that while we waited for them to get out, we would start exploring.

We had to walk down the hill and pretty far (the whole time wishing there were more trees to provide some much needed shade) and didn't make it to our desired destination, but we did find a very cool place set up for kids to play pioneer games and dress up. And there were picnic tables in the shade for us to sit at. The picture below shows Jason's reaction when we realized that someone would have to walk all the way back up to the temple because we had the only keys to the rental car.

Andres had fallen asleep in the stroller during our journey, so we parked him under a tree and Addie and I explored while Dad very generously offered to walk back up the hill.

Is this a cute little pioneer girl, or what?

She watched the older kids with these and wanted to try to carry the water too. We didn't have much water in there, but this second that it took to take the picture was about all she could handle.

These little cabins they had set up were her favorite, though. One was set up like a schoolhouse and the other like cabin complete with little cradles and dolls. Addie had SOOO much fun.

When Andres woke up he joined in the fun as well. He mostly just liked the little chairs that were his perfect size.

I'm not really sure what the sheep were all about, but Andres thought they were fun.

Grandpa and Andres:

Grandma dancing with Andres and Jason dancing with Addie.

Some of the games set up at the Pagaent:

The temple as seen from our seats at the pageant. It was really good, but both of the kids were so tired that I was thinking it was too long more than I was thinking it was entertaining or uplifting. But I sure am glad that we had a chance to see it while we are here.