Showing posts with label Ohio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ohio. Show all posts

Friday, May 20, 2011

Buckner Fun

The Buckners are such wonderful friends to us!  They let us come out to Ohio and stay with them in their lovely home with their beautiful family.  We had so much fun!  I so wish we lived closer.  I won't give up hope...maybe someday!  Thanks again Nate & Kellie!  You guys are the best!

This was the end of our vacation.  It was an AWESOME one!  I LOVE going and seeing new places and having adventures all over the place!  And it was a huge treat to get to spend time with family and wonderful friends!  

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Lake Erie

Ever since I watched 'Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?' every week as a kid, I have always wanted to go and see one of the Great Lakes.  I can now cross that off the list!  And the lighthouses were a bonus!

It was a nice day and good little outing to go check it out.  Nate (our good friend that let us stay at his house w/his awesome family) and Dave walking down the beach.

They had a great little play area for the kids.

The Abinator!

Skippin rocks.

Weeeeee!

It was a pretty view!  So glad we could go see the not so eeerie Lake Erie.  

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Kirtland, Ohio

Ok, so this post covers 3 different stops in Kirtland....but that's ok.  This was at the John Johnson Farm.  It ended up being quite the painful stop for us.  Joey was asleep and we had to wake him up to take him in.  He would not stop crying and screaming.  Dave ended up taking him outside and missing the entire tour.  This is the first room of the tour...at least he got to see the kitchen.  :) Thankfully all stops weren't that bad.  Cool loom huh?


The Kirtland Temple was an interesting visit since it is not owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  Beautiful building and interesting facts about it.  However, definitely missing A LOT without the spirit there. 

Their visitor center had some fun dress up clothes Abby and I tried out. :)

Then we were off to the NK Whitney store and the Mill.  It rained a little and boy did those kids LOVE getting to hold umbrellas.  It was almost dangerous how much they loved holding umbrellas! lol


It was simply gorgeous there.  SO very green!  Interesting thing I learned...I asked the older missionary man that serves in the visitor center there why such a beautiful place like Kirtland seemed so under populated?  He leaned forward and said...well, this place was cursed by the Lord.  They persecuted the saints and there was much wickedness there.  Interesting eh?

The mill was so cool!

This wide open field was like free rein for the kids.  They couldn't help but run and frolic in the wide open field.  They started getting pretty far out there, and I couldn't see if there were ditches or streams or cliffs...so I freaked out and had to chase them down.  But no one got hurt.  

Just a gorgeously green place!