Beautiful Nauvoo

After about 18 long hours of driving we finally arrived in Nauvoo!  Our week there was wonderful!  At a later date I hope to do a post with more details and travel tips but I wanted to get the pictures up before too much time goes by. 

First Stop: Pioneer Pastimes

Playing with the Climbing Bear

Spinning Tops

All Dressed Up

Playing House in the Log Cabin

Pretty Pioneer

Hoop Roll

Stick Pull

Trying So Hard!

Jacob and His Ladder

Jumping Monkey

Monkey with Monkey Watching Jumping Monkey

Catch It!

Pioneer Pals

Alayna Makes Friends Wherever She Goes

Getting the School House Ready

Babysitting Duty

(Thanks Kyle!)

Bear Races

Go Kyle!

Blocks and Animals

Hobby Horse

Heading Down the Trail of Hope

Webb Brothers Blacksmith Descendants

Reading Journal Entries on the Trail

Strolling Sweetie

Pioneer Memorial

Inside the Webb Brothers Blacksmith Shop

(Our kids and their cousins are the 5th great grandkids of one of the brothers.)

Horseshoe Demo

(Lucky Steven got to take it home.)

On Stage at "Just Plain Anna-Amanda"
Alayna was so lucky to get to go on stage!  I LOVED this show - it was so much fun for the kids and had a really cute message: be yourself!

Petting the Horses Before the Ride

Back at Pioneer Pastimes

Family Living Center

James is totally paying attention.

Making Rope

Sunset on the Mississippi Show
Aren't they cute?

Goofy Guys

Cutie Pies

My Little Love

Jacob and Uncle Lynn

Isn't Jacob's face priceless???

Last But Definitely Not Least

The Temple

We love to see the temple...

...we're going there some day.

Our Happy Family

All the Bradley Grands

Yes, this is the best shot I got.

I love it anyway because it is REAL!

The BIG Bradley Bunch

(Minus Kevin and Emily - we missed you!)

One More for the Road

Before we knew it our week was over and we were on our way home.  I made a little workbook for the kids that I will share later.  I also took ingredients for a couple of recipes.  We were supposed to have quite a bit of rain so I thought it would be fun to cook a couple of pioneer recipes.  Luckily the forecast was wrong and we didn't have any rain at all!  That meant that the ingredients came home and we did our cooking for Family Night on Monday after talking about what we had learned and the fun we had.  We made Hard Tack which was actually pretty good if it was rolled very thin, baked very well and eaten right away.  I was delicious with jam but we made the kids try it without so they could see how it (usually) was for the pioneers. 

Rolling the Dough

Golden Brown

Yummy!