Church History/Niagara Trip

 For our summer trip we went to Ithaca to hike the water falls, then to Palmyra, on to Niagara Falls and finally to Kirtland. It was a fun mix of history and nature.

 Joseph Smith farm.

 Niagara Falls

 Lake Eerie

 Kirtland

 More Lake Eerie

 More Niagara

 More Palmyra

The kids probably liked Niagara Falls the best--and it was pretty cool. I was touched by the great personal sacrifice of the early saints. We also visited a lot of old friends, which was nice.

A little hiking

 Toward the end of summer we went to Bald Pate and enjoyed the wild raspberries (except Oakley)

 Bryce and I even got away for thee weekend for a 10 mile hike in the Delaware Water Gap

Update on Summer

 

 
 

Summer is in full swing. One rainy day, we decided to take in the Princeton Art Museum. They have a great kid passport program,

Our cousins had free passes to 6 Flags. Tessa was a daredevil and went on lots of scary roller coasters.

 

 Christanne got to have a day in Hyde Park with friends, seeing the FDR house and library.

 

Utah cousins came to visit. We had a cold but fun day at the beach and a sunny day crawdad fishing at the farm.

We all spent a fun weekend in DC. Christanne and Bryce got a night out to go to the Ovarian Cancer Benefit concert.

 

 

 Christanne and Tessa visited Boston and had fun seeing old friends and visiting the sites. The only sad part is that we lost Paddles, the stuffed penguin on the T.

 Tessa was begging to ride this creature on the carousel all day.

 Some time with Katie, Anna and Amy Beth. Amy Beth gave us a great tour of the MFA.

The T

 Swan boats

 The temple

 Brunch at Henrietta's table.

After exhausting all our finding resources: the news that Paddles is gone for good:(

Party for Elizabeth

Summertime

 Summer has started and now that the rains seems to have ended we are enjoying the hot weather. We like to sit in the back yard under our tree in the evenings and enjoy the cool.

 We like to take in at least one Trenton Thunder game each season. They are always lots of fun and dad buys special treats.

 We have lots of play dates. Above are some friends we are going to miss a lot.

 Some cousins came to visit and we went crawdad fishing in the stream at the farm.

 Even though the original fireworks date was rained out, we enjoyed the rescheduled fireworks and are happy to live in this wonderful country. Can't wait to see what else the summer will bring.