Door County, Wisconsin

We've lived in Wiscosin now 10 years and every year we talk about going to Door County. This year we finally made the trip. It's fall and the colors of the leaves are changing so we took advantage of this time to travel north. It was very quiet and relaxing as all the kids have gone back to school. We enjoyed a trolley ride tour of several of the lighthouses on the Green Bay side and the Michigan Lake side of the peninsula. We took the 5-hour tour which included lunch and traveled from Fish Creek to Peninsula State Park then on to Bailey's Harbor and Sturgeon Bay then back to Fish Creek. Here are a few photos from this wonderfully relaxing trip.

The Katie II Trolley


Cana Island Lighthouse


Eagle Bluff Lighthouse


View from the top of the Eagle Bluff Lighthouse


We climbed this 75 foot high tower. The view was fantastic.


A view of Horseshoe Island from the top of Eagle Tower


Sturgeon Bay Ship North Lighthouse


Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal Lighthouse. A canal was dug in Sturgeon Bay for ships to pass through so they didn't have to travel back up around the peninsula.


Biking in Peninsula State Park. The trail was only 9.6 miles long but we got lost and ended up riding an extra three miles.


This is a view of one of the Ferry's that take you, your car and bike across Lake Michigan to Washington Island.


The steps we had to climb to get to the tower to look out over the island


A view of the changing colors from Mountain Park Tower


Another view of the colors changing on Washington Island

Cute Apron

I created this cute apron at our Super Saturday. It took much longer than I planned for. I thought I could just whip it up and be home early. Didn't happen but I love the apron. Now I just have to finish my cards that I didn't have time to make.

Family Camping in the Uintas

We traveled 1400 miles to camp at Trial Lake with family in Utah. We arrived on Tuesday the 3rd of August and the weather was beautiful, sunny and warm. On Wednesday it rained the entire day. We had our camp all set up on Tuesday and so did Jason. Cindy and Carl got to set up camp in the rain. Lucky for all of us the weather cleared up and we had a great time camping and getting together with family.

Ken's sisters (Dona & Jean) came up for a day of fun with us. Sid (Dona's husband), Karen (a great niece), Chris (Ken's niece) and Chris' grandaughter Serena also joined in the fun. Thanks everyone for making it a great trip. Hope to do it again.


Kaden and Marissa in the kayak.


Cindy's family - Cindy, Kaylee, Jaron, Kaden


Christi's family - Christi, Austin, Jason, Hailee


Carl's Family - Marissa, Tracy, Carl, Emma


Sid, Karen & Dona


Jean, Ken & Dona


The Bald Mountain Hikers - Tracy, Cindy, Ken & Carl


Ann paddling the kayak

Tennessee Visit

We went to Tennessee for Carter's baptism. We're so proud of you for the choice you made to get baptised. What a handsome boy he is.

We had agreat time with the kids at the neighborhood pool.

The girls really enjoyed the hot tub. I think they would have stayed in there all night.

We played 'Minute to Win It' and had a great time laughing at each other. This is called "Junk in the Trunk" with a kleenex box with ping pong ball inside. You have to shake your tush and get all the ping pong balls out of the box in one minute.







Whitney and Crystal have a cottonball attached to their nose with vasolene and they're trying to get as many as they can across the room into another bowl.





Chari and Brian have pedometers attached to their heads and shaking their heads they are trying to get the number of steps on the pedometer as high as they can.



Candi, Sarah and Crystal drove up from Georgia to join in the celebration.



Brian's parents flew in from Utah to share in the excitement and enjoy being with the family.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Since we were so close to Cleveland, OH we just couldn't miss visiting the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. No cameras were allowed inside so all we could take pictures of is the outside of the building.

Kirtland, OH

In Kirtland, OH we spent the day touring the Church History sites. We also visited the Morely Farm and the Johnson Family Home in Hiram.


The Newel K. Whitney Store

The Sawmill

The Kirtland Temple

Ferry Ride Across Lake Michigan

We took the Lake Express Ferry across Lake Michigan from Milwaukee, WI to Muskegon, MI on our way to Tennessee for Carter's baptism, by way of Kirtland, OH. A few photos of that relaxing adventure.


Back of the Ferry

Cars driving onto the Ferry

Wake from the back of the Ferry

Port In Muskegon, MI


Swans greet us as we arrive.

Conferences

Our visitor (Elder Bradley D. Foster) has come and gone. It was great to have him here even for a short time. He's very kind, doesn't eat much, and left us all with great messages in Stake Conference.

We just had our Women's Conference Saturday, May 8th. Our theme was Prepare Every NEEDFUL Thing. The sisters that spoke were absolutely amazing and gave us great ideas of needful things we should be working on. We had about 280 sisters in attendance and a great salad bar was prepared by a sister in our Stake with the priesthood serving to keep all the salad ingredients filled.

We're grateful it went well and that is has ended. We can breathe a sigh of relief for another year.

Visitor At Our House

We've know for a few weeks that we would be having a visiting authority attending our Stake Conference this weekend. Then we learned that he would also be staying with us for two nights. At first, I was very nervous (more nervous than having one drop in, with the Stake President, for lunch 1-1/2 years ago). Now he's here and there's is really nothing to be nervous about. He's very kind. He's Bradley D. Foster, in the 2nd Quorum of Seventy. He spoke in the Sunday afternoon session of conference about motherly influence on loves of children.

What a great privilege to have them visit our home. I'm looking forward to a great Stake Conference.