As the title implies: We cannot be stopped. Travis has a day off and
we're gone. He has a weekend off in between Surgery and OB Rotation and you guessed it,
we're oFF!
So this week while Travis died a little less on the inside each day knowing these were his LAST six days of surgery, we here at the house enjoyed playing outside in the backyard in our "new pool," scootering, playing at the park, lots of reading time together, time with daddy each day, dinner out to celebrate the end of surgery, playing baseball in the back, and then camping in Palmyra!
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| They had to have their hats:) |
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| The boys like to help me exercise |
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| Park Day |
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They "painted" their playhouse with wet
chalk one rainy morning |
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| Celebrating the end of surgery |
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| Celebratory S'mores! |
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| Burrito Babies :) |
Our trip to Palmyra started at 5:45am Saturday morning when we began packing the car... famous last words from Travis when I asked if we should pack the car the night before, "Nah, I can have everything loaded by the time you're done dressing the boys..." And then we pulled out of the driveway at 8:45 :) The drive was 5 1/2hrs of beautiful, and I mean BEAUTIFUL tree-lined freeways. We seriously didn't know where we were are the whole drive because there was nothing but lakes, rivers, streams, and acres of trees!
We set up camp and quickly took off for the Smith Farms/Sacred Grove. I will be honest, as we approached the sacred grove there was a soft-whispering sound and I felt a reverence just knowing what took place inside the trees; however, I kid you not, once we stepped foot in those trees we were ATTACKED by mosquitos! Millions of mosquitoes throughout all those pretty trees just making the experience almost miserable (poor Maddix has 19 bites; not to mention he's a little allergic to them and one bite made his forehead swell above his eye!). We kept smiling as we walked on, even after Aaron ran up and BIT ME in the tush for no reason at all, or after Maddix kept calling Aaron a "poopy brother." I enjoyed visiting the Smith Farm much more. I loved walking through his home and imagining him sitting at the desk reading, or looking over the fields and imagining what it was like to be a boy. I could almost picture the thought process of that young boy being in his VERY crowded home with this burning question for God and running deep into the Sacred Grove at the edge of his yard trying to find a quiet place. And later when we went to the Hill Cumorah and I could pictures him going for the Gold Plates I was just breath taken.
We stopped by the temple, took a tour through the Publishing house where Joseph smith begged repeatedly to have the first copies of the Book of Mormon published. We saw the desk the man was probably sitting at while Joseph repeatedly returned with his request. We saw the room and tools, and one of the original of the 5,000 copies published. I learned that they had to pay (through the selling of much of Oliver Cowdry's property) $3,000 for those 5,000 copies. And when they were sold at $1.75 a copy, that was equivalent to two days wages! Anyway, so afterward we found some dinner at one of the three places to possibly eat at in that town... and saw that the rest of the town was there also. We then stopped at a park to play baseball before heading over to the Palmyra Pageant.
Palmyra Pageant: Was awesome. We first walked up and there were a couple of hundred people dressed up like Nephites just talking to the crowd and helping you find an area to sit. The pageant was well done, even when the lights temporarily broke and the sound recording stopped for like 5 minutes but they just kept on acting :) And the boys loved it. And Maddix LOVED using the binoculars the whole time. I have to stay though he didn't use them JUST for the play. Before it started he said, "Mom!" Then handed me the binoculars, "you have to see that girl in purple and pink. I wish I could Marry her!!" Yeah... she was like 10 or 11yrs old. ha ha. Well, we loved it. Beat the traffic. Had Sirie take us to the wrong campsite before we found our way back in the dark. Slept in the tent with a few mosquitos feeding on us all night. Packed up this morning and drove the 5 1/2 hrs back to the house.
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| I love them so much! |
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| 3 minutes after leaving the Pageant:) |
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| Turned around to find this while driving home |
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And the Welcoming Back traffic of New York City
Bleh. |
The End.
Now tomorrow Travis will be starting OB and we're really hoping he loves it since this is what we think he wants to go into.
We set up camp and quickly took off for the Smith Farms/Sacred Grove. I will be honest, as we approached the sacred grove there was a soft-whispering sound and I felt a reverence just knowing what took place inside the trees; however, I kid you not, once we stepped foot in those trees we were ATTACKED by mosquitos! Millions of mosquitoes throughout all those pretty trees just making the experience almost miserable (poor Maddix has 19 bites; not to mention he's a little allergic to them and one bite made his forehead swell above his eye!). We kept smiling as we walked on, even after Aaron ran up and BIT ME in the tush for no reason at all, or after Maddix kept calling Aaron a "poopy brother." I enjoyed visiting the Smith Farm much more. I loved walking through his home and imagining him sitting at the desk reading, or looking over the fields and imagining what it was like to be a boy. I could almost picture the thought process of that young boy being in his VERY crowded home with this burning question for God and running deep into the Sacred Grove at the edge of his yard trying to find a quiet place. And later when we went to the Hill Cumorah and I could pictures him going for the Gold Plates I was just breath taken.
We stopped by the temple, took a tour through the Publishing house where Joseph smith begged repeatedly to have the first copies of the Book of Mormon published. We saw the desk the man was probably sitting at while Joseph repeatedly returned with his request. We saw the room and tools, and one of the original of the 5,000 copies published. I learned that they had to pay (through the selling of much of Oliver Cowdry's property) $3,000 for those 5,000 copies. And when they were sold at $1.75 a copy, that was equivalent to two days wages! Anyway, so afterward we found some dinner at one of the three places to possibly eat at in that town... and saw that the rest of the town was there also. We then stopped at a park to play baseball before heading over to the Palmyra Pageant.
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