Explanation

Ok, at the end of posting the below pictures I finally figured out spacing. There are some big gaps between pictures but continue to scroll down and the last one is of Bekah and Wyatt on their horses. I am still learning! Hope you enjoy the pictures!

Catching up on Pictures

The duck's digs
Our little wood duck.

These are the other two. Boy, girl, boy, boy, girl, girl?????

Some of the ladies gathered together.

Wyatt got this picture! She is perched on the door to the chicken yard from the coop!

Bekah in her clogging outfit. Her friend Hannah who she will be doing a special duet with during fiddle week

Will holding a baby chick.

Bekah and her chick. It is all white now!

Annika enjoying the chicks.

Barn

Wade in front of the Mesa AZ temple

Stephi in front of the Mesa AZ temple

Chicken coop

This is where we are now with the barn.

Annika' s ballet recital. Waiting to go on.

Our Grand Champion of the pinewood derby. Also first place for his group!

Showing off the ribbons. Grand Champion all around and first place in the Bears.

Mom! My first piece of gum! Will's 5th birthday.

Love those presents

Will's 5th birthday

Bekah in the play. She is 4th from the left.

Wyatt's first ride on Pooh.

Bekah on Doxie in front of our unfinished barn.

Let's ride!

More pictures

Here are some pictures from our trip. They start with the end of the trip first. I haven't really figured out this blog thing yet. Anyway, enjoy! We surely did!

VACATION!!

Wyatt and Wade back from a 2 and 1/2 hr mt. bike ride in Custer in the rain!

Mt Rushmore.

You want us to go through that????

Enjoying our hike in Custer Park.

Crossing a stream in Custer State Park

The kids doing the Lambeau Leap!

We have entered the Packer Mecca!

Wade and the girls on the train at the Milwaukie zoo.

Riding the train at the zoo with my boys.

We love Great Grandma Pease!

The farm house where Wade grew up in Wisconsin. (at least until he was 11)

Are we there yet??

Oh, we love to ride in the truck!

The Nauvoo Temple.

Statue across from the Nauvoo Temple. Hyrum and Joseph in their last ride together going to Carthage.

A celebration picture after presents and Ice Cream!

Willy is celebrating his 4th birthday!!

Just for reference, the window the Prophet fell out of is the second one. Meaning the one on top!

Standing in front of the window where Joseph Smith fell out of.

I think I finally stopped crying for the picture!

The kids in front of a statue of Joseph and Hyrum Smith at the Carthage Jail. The jail is behind them.

Bekah taking a little rest in Carthage,Ill.

Our 2 week vacation photos

Annika is trying out the stilts. Connor is going solo!

Wade checking out his stilt ability.

Stephi trying out stilts at the Pioneer Games station.

This is the actual size of the wagons the saints took out west. Our knees are very close to the other side. There are 14 of us and no household items, just people. I never realized how tiny these wagons were until I saw this one. Amazing!

Here is the whole crew with a couple of oxen. These guys are huge!!

Did you know oxen are steers allowed to grow until adulthood and not turned into your hamburger?

Here Wade, Will and Rex are learning how to make rope in Nauvoo.