Our Trip to Nauvoo

We all had a very nice time in Nauvoo, and reguardless of what the National Weather Service stated it hardly rained at all.
The top pictures, we are dipping our feet in the beautiful, but polluted, Mississippi River. We did this just as we were leaving Nauvoo. Then of course there was the beautiful Nauvoo temple. John and I took turns taking the kids around Nauvoo and going to the Temple on Tuesday. It is such a beautiful temple. I am so glad to have been able to go into it. Nauvoo has this little kid section they call "pioneer past times" They have pioneer dress up clothes, pioneer games, a school house and a little log cabin with kitchen stuff. Our kids loved, loved, loved this best of all. And this is where we spent the majority of our time. My kids make cute pioneers. Ruth played the school teacher for all of the kids there for a long time. Rachel put blankets on the sheep to "make them comfortable." Anya liked taking care of the babies best of all. I think Johnny liked trying the games most. The door is at Carthage jail where Joseph and Hyrum Smith were martyred. It was such a neat place to see and to be at. I think that our older children have really gained a new respect for Joseph Smith and the early saints. I am so glad that we had a chance to do this before we move too far away. It also seemed rather appropriate for John and I at this time. I loved all that I learned about the good saints of the early church. They were so faithful despite serious tragedy.