Nauvoo Trip

We went to Nauvoo last week.  Somehow it seems longer ago than that.  It was a nice trip, as Nauvoo always is.  We stayed at the Willard Richards Inn.  Yes, it is the actual home that Willard Richards lived in in the 1840's.  He lived in the center part and later they added the two wings.  The only bad thing was that we asked for the room on the third floor and there is no elevator.  It was a lovely room and cost quite a bit less than the ones on the lower floors, but I was really puffing by the time we got to the third floor with our luggage.  On the way home we were able to meet five other members of our branch for a session at the St. Louis Temple.  It is so nice to be able to see people you know at the temple.

Here's a picture of our room.  I needed a fish eye lens to get all the room, but you get the idea.

Here's a picture of our inn.

Our room was behind these two windows.  You can see these windows in in upper right hand corner of the previous picture.

The next morning we attended a session at the Nauvoo Temple.  Every time I round the curve on the highway coming into town and see this temple at the top of the hill it just takes my breath away.  I am so glad they rebuilt this historic temple.  It's amazing!

Remember the bronze monuments to women in the garden behind the LDS Visitors' Center?  Notice how this generous lady is offering Alan a piece of fruit.

Here she is from another angle.  And no, I did not put this in her hand; it was already there when we arrived.  A tree next to her was full of it.

One of the missionaries took our picture at the Seventy's Hall.

Several Things

I still want to do a little posting about our recent trip to Nauvoo but that will take a little longer than I have right now, so I'll put a few minor things that have been on my mind.  I had a couple more things that I was going to post on this, but every time I tried to do it my computer would crash.  I don't exactly know why but I'll just quit with this and try later.

It's beginning to look a lot like FALL.

I had a long overdue mammogram done this week.  The results came back good. Always a good thing.  They were giving each lady a pink carnation.  Nice, huh?

The Jacobs come to town

Last weekend Karen, Mike & family came to Salem for a visit.  They arrived Sunday evening and stayed until Tuesday.  We were able to spend Sunday and Monday with them, but we were out of town on Tuesday.  That will be another post.  I'll tell you -- those kids are growing so fast.  We look at pictures of them six months ago and they have changed so much in that short amount of time.

Here Andrew is, looking at a book with Karen.  As you can see, Karen has just recently got her hair cut.

Emily checks out the Halloween decorations.

Here is grinny Charlie.  He is such a happy baby. -- except when he didn't want to take a nap.

 

 

Here is a portion of the Halloween decorations.  Click on the picture to enlarge and see the photo on the table.  The people change back and forth from normal to skeleton when you move the picture.

Comfy Bed for Pakamer

I went to Wal-Mart to pick up a jug of milk and ran across this little cat bed on clearance.  It struck me as something that Pakamer would like to snuggle into, so I tossed it into my cart.  Apparently she likes it.

She was asleep, but when she heard the sound of my camera's button being partially pushed down, she raised her head and chirped.

Small Surprise

The other day I went to the grocery store.  They were having a promotion in which they give you a card and then punch on it the amount of money you have spent.  When you reach a certain amount you take it to the store's office and they scratch off the silver stuff to see what you have won.  It can be anywhere from $1 to $1,000.  I didn't win the $1,000.  No big surprise there, but I was a little surprised when it wasn't $1; I won $5, which was very nice since I had no cash in my purse.