In-laws in-town

We had a great week! This past Tuesday I attended, and was honored to speak at, our ward's Young Women In Excellence. It went really well. There was a yummy dinner and the girls all did a great job of putting it all together. I was glad to be a part of it.

Wed. was Veteran's Day, but we didn't really have anything out of the ordinary day.

Friday we had a visiting teaching luncheon thing. My comp. and I decided to get all 3 ladies done at once and we had a big lunch together and it was awesome. Terra did all the work and the food was delicious. I love getting to know the sisters here better. I learn so much from all of them.

I left from that and immediately went to the airport to pick up Kenny's parents (and Kenny met us at the airport too). From there we drove to Nauvoo, IL because that's what they wanted to see. We were grateful for an excuse to go back there. We loved it. Fri. night we stayed in a hotel in Keokuk, which was probably Tyler's favorite part becuase of the hotel's swimming pool. I forgot his floaties and I don't think he cared, but we did. He didn't really get it and thought he could just swim around and jump in hundreds of times without us catching him. We had one scary experience, but he lived through it all. He's pretty fearless in the water. Saturday we pretty much had Nauvoo to ourselves. It was my first time going not in the summer, and it was pretty empty. It was nice. We even got to stop at Carthage jail before coming back home. I was reminded of how amazing our pioneer ancestors are and the sacrifices they made. what incredible examples.
We spent Sunday with Scott and Carolyn too, and then they left Mon. morning. so it was a short trip but we had lots of fun with them. Here's some of the many pictures that were taken.


tyler and the Nauvoo temple all lit up beautifully at night.


Sorry it's crooked. This is all of us in front of Carthage jail. The window at the top is the one Joseph Smith fell out of when he was shot and killed. I felt weird smiling for this picture. It was really neat to go back there and it brought back a lot of memories of when I went with my family.

See the rash on Brynlee's cheeks? Well it's worse now and it's on her neck, arms, and legs too.

Grandpa took a lot of cool action shots like this. he always jumped at an angle to try to get as far away from us as possible. He kept getting mad when we partially caught him so he wouldn't drowned. It was so funny.

Crooked again. Grandpa keeping Bryn entertained after she got sick of the pool.
This is the view of the refinery where Kenny works. Looks pretty cool at night.

Brynlee is sick still, or again. I don't think her antibiotic was strong enough to kill her UTI. We're doing benadryl for her terrible rash and tylenol for her fever. We've got a doc. appt. on Wed. to test her urine again. Hopefully this will all get cleared up quickly so we can go on vacation for Thanksgiving. unfortunately Tyler came down with a cold this weekend too, and now has a cough. We'll get through it.