The day finally came when we bid farewell to NH, New England, Friends, Friends that felt more like family, and all the fun we've had the past 4 years. Time to move across the country again...
Mike and I both had to drive our cars so we split the kids up and hit the road. Most days were just driving, driving, driving. We did hit a few fun stops along the way and one not so fun stop at a urgent care center for Miles vampire-red eyes (we're still not sure if it was pink eye, or just allergies.)
We found Cabela's flag ship store in Sydney, Wyoming. And took a picture by the Elephant. We all love the Elephant.
Then on the fourth night we found ourselves in Layton, UT among family.
We were so grateful for this stop, we stayed the next day to play with some of the UT Petersons. Shannon is always a great Hostess and made yummy food and found us fun things to do.
We toured Temple Square and the new visitor center and the old visitor center. I think after such a long week of traveling and being cooped up in a car made me extra emotional because I felt the spirit so strongly at the visitor center. The kids loved seeing all the displays and artwork. I love the picture of Elliot touching Jesus's feet. How sweet is that? It reminded us all how much we had been blessed the past week with safe traveling and so much help from friends and family. We are so blessed!
This collage is of the new visitors center's Temple model. We called it the dollhouse Temple. It was so cool! I love the picture of Caleigh and Elliot in front of it because the glass is reflecting the actual SLC Temple in the glass.
It wasn't all spiritual fun, we also found shopping at the new mall across the street. It is a wonderful outdoor mall with gorgeous water and rock features. The kids had fun hitting the Disney store and the chocolate store. We all loved walking around just being together.
We are so glad that we are close to family again. Our home in California is still 10 hours from family, but we can drive it and we plan too.
2 comments:
We loved your visit and plan to have many more. So glad that you had time to stay with us. We also are very excited that your just a day away now. Happy Moving!:)
Wow that is big move. So fun to be back in the west. I am so happy for your family, I agree with you shannon is a great hostess. I'll be excited to see how California treats ya.
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