Day 4 (part 1) ~ Nauvoo

We woke up on our fourth day of travel and touring and started at the Nauvoo Visitors center getting a feel of places we wanted to go and see! Nauvoo was different then I had imagined but I loved it! McKay had been there once before and was happy to be back!

Joseph and Hyrum leaving Nauvoo and heading to Carthage!

 Us and the Beautiful Nauvoo Temple

 Sidney Rigdon Home

 Overlooking the Mississippi River

 Gunsmith Shop

 Printing Office

 Post Office

 Lucy Mack Smith Home

Having fun! Carter laughing at his silly Dad!

 Brigham Young Home

 Blacksmith Shop

 One of the covered wagons that rode on the Trail of Hope

 Pioneer Memorial

 Names of the Pioneers

 Exodus to Greatness Plaque in the Pioneer Memorial

 Brigham Young and Joseph Smith overlooking the Mississippi River and the city of Nauvoo

Eyes Westward

 Still having fun with Dad!

 Headstones of Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith... Joseph Smith Jr. (The Prophet) parents!

 Headstones from left to right... Hyrum Smith, Joseph Smith Jr. and Emma Hale Smith

 The cemetary was probably one of my most favorite places to visit that day! It just made the people more real to see a headstone and where they were buried! They also had 3 other headstones... Evelyn Rebecca Smith who went by Eve, Daughter of Joseph Smith III and Emmeline 8 months old, Joseph Arthur Smith who went by Arthur, Son of Joseph Smith III and Emmeline 7 months old, and Emmeline Griswold Smith who went by Emma, Wife of Joseph Smith III

The Homestead

The Beautiful Nauvoo Temple!

Day 3 ~ Indianapolis

So we arrived on Friday night at Brett and Kim's house and stayed the night and woke up the next day where we stayed for the majority of the day to have some fun and play!

Quinnlyn and Avery playing with Carter!

 We decided to go downtown and go to the mall and walk along the canal!

Quinnlyn and Avery in front of a fountain! Cute Girls!

 Carter and the kids playing in the water!

 Everyone but Kim! She insisted on taking the picture!

Brett, Easton, Carter, Avery, Amanda, McKay and Quinnlyn

 Looking at the ducks!

We loved being able to spend time with the Indiana Jones' and happy they let us crash for the night!

After dinner we headed to Nauvoo and stayed the night! Day 4 coming soon!

Trip Back Home!

So we decided to take the scenic route home from Florida and see some things if we were going to be traveling a long ways anyway! So instead of going through Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona then Utah! We went from Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Missiouri, Kansas, Colorado then Utah! I would say we saw the majority of the United States :)! We left Florida on Thursday the 11th of August around 3 and headed to Atlanta, Georgia where we stayed the night! We woke up Friday and headed to the Georgia Aquarium, we had heard it was way awesome and it is the biggest aquarium in the US!

Carter and McKay in front of one of the many exotic fish tanks!

Carter thought these fish were pretty cool, hence the wide eyed facial expression!

Carter and McKay in the silly peep hole!

Albino Alligator

Japanese Spider Crabs :( I would hate to run into one of these!

Beluga Whale showing off to the crowd!! Grandpa Wallin said Carter liked these whales so much because they reminded him of Grandpa! :) This was one of our most favorite!

Huge Starfish!

Beluga Whale showing off again and saying HI to Carter and Mckay!
Beautiful Animal

Carter and McKay shaking the dolpins fin!

Lots of sharks and I have to say I took this picture and it looks pretty professional!

Look at this fishes lips! Haha they are huge... and it has like a cool hairdo up top!

Shark Whale

We had a ton of fun! Carter really enjoyed himself and was such a trooper! Highly recommended if you are ever out that way!

After we got done at the aquarium we headed to Indianapolis, Indiana where McKay's brother Brett lives with his family to stay the night and visit with them for a short while!

Carter At 6 Months!

We Love this Kid! 6 months has come and gone and way to fast! He is so smart and learning new things everyday!
He loves attention! Loves to grab everything, eat everything he gets his hands on! He loves to roll, usually in circles because he definitely favors rolling to his left! He is a jabber mouth! Loves to hear his voice! He has the cutest giggle! Finds Mom the funniest... because I am obviously! He is sitting up! He loves his Johnny Jumper! Loves watching Uncle Isaac play football! Still in size 3 diapers and needs to go to 12 month clothes but I am putting it off because I feel like if I put him in them he will not be my baby anymore! He will be this big grown up boy!
My Balloon!

 
Holding onto Grandma Greats balloon like we are going to take it away!
Jumping and swinging around in his Johnny Jumper!
Swinging in Grandma Jones' hammock! Thought that was pretty fun!

Playing with toys while momma gets dinner ready!


First time eating cereal!
Hated it for about 1 1/2 weeks but now loves it and tries to help me feed him!
BYU Cougar Fan!




Loves to take naps with Grandma Great!
Loved baby Porter! He just wanted to give him loves!
Trying to help Porter stop crying!
He thinks Dad's hats are pretty cool!
Chillin with Uncle Isaac!
Another nap with Grandma Great!
His favorite 2 people!

Watching the BYU game with Dad!
Thinks he can drive!
Reading books with Dad!
Loves books!

First Mohawk! It usually stands up naturally but this day we did put a little gel in it!
Well he is growing like a weed! It is fun to see all of his new tricks and see his personality grow bigger everyday! We sure do love him!