Assateague & Nauvoo!

We're off on another excursion. Shanna stayed home with while the rest of us went to Assateague. Shanna's new hat she's going to bring to camp....

Hmmm..a waterbottle.  Not sure why I took this photo. But these are the classic waterbottles our family uses. I guess I can document that!

A pizza pretzel I shared with Haley. So good!!!

Haley made some chapati!!!

We made it to Assateague! Fun seeing a Wisconsin license plate all the way out here. 

We arrived earlier than the Heits so we walked around and then waited in the shade. 

Fun set up on the back of this truck!

We hung out at the little museum. 

Crawdad fishing!

I realized I booked the wrong campsite. Ugh. I wanted to be walking distance from the ocean but definitely wasn't. I should have gotten the clue when the site said "bayside" and not "oceanside". We drove over to the beach though. Elden needed new swim shorts so I bought some for him there.  Thankfully they were a reasonable price-about $20.00.

Lois and I hung out while the kids played, then we headed back to our campsite. 

Dinner was a bit of a disaster. We couldn't get a nice big fire going and I forgot the lighter fluid. We cooked our foil dinners forever! We finally went to a little store about 8ish minutes away and got lighter fluid.  Still, had a hard time getting the food all the way cooked.  By nightfall everyone had something to eat which was good. 

We did a night beach trip. It was pretty windy so we didn't stay long. But the kids had fun finding ghost crabs. 

Horses in the campsite! Kind of freaked me out a couple of times when they were right by us or we were in our tent and could hear them. 

Another trip to the beach. We didn't stay long. It was a bit cold and rainy. 

Overall...fun trip! It was 7-11 day so we enjoyed free slurpees on the way home. 

Lee and Shanna enjoyed some good eats!

We arrived home from Assateague, did a quick turnaround and were back on the road to Nauvoo! Reed came with us. James got baptized this weekend so we went on up to Nauvoo first to see the pageant. 

Love the carriage ride in Nauvoo!

We stopped at the store that has several little shops in it. 

Bookstore trip too.  We've seen this book before and every time I do I think it looks so creepy!

Mine and Lee's friends run an ice cream place in Nauvoo and we figured out which one--Annie's!  We stopped in and got to say hi to Carmin! 

Loved going to the Joseph Smith home and the new sites that our church recently acquired. 

The pageant was so good!  We had snacks beforehand and enjoyed the county fair a little bit. 

We went to the 8am church in Nauvoo then headed to Steph's for the baptism. Got there right on time!

A party for James after!

It was fun that half of us siblings were together!

We drove through the night and probably made it home about 2am or something?  When I started putting stuff away I ended up doing and impromptu shed cleanout. 

Haley took her friend driving in our car so she could learn stick shift. Though they just went once. But her friend did great!

Can't remember if this was before or after Nauvoo, but the kids had fun hanging out with Reed. 

We did a hike in Shenandoah National Park. We were trying to get to White Oak Falls, but it started raining and the kids were grumpy--though Haley didn't mind being on the hike. 

Temple time!

Had fun at one of the neighborhood pools by Lois and celebrated Katie's birthday!

Not sure who purchased this, but probably Elden or Haley. 

Haley's summer baking!

Shanna got us tickets to the waterpark again. 

Margherita pizza!  So good! Haley keeps us well fed. 

Our friend, Mike Schill, hosted a reception for his daughter who was married that summer.  Fun evening!

Cookies for ministering!

Nail time.