YEA! We Are Home

Before leaving Kristi's, Zeke had a new experience chopping wood for Karl. Zeke was so proud of himself and how well he did splitting the wood.

We left Kristi's Monday morning and drove to Palmyra. We toured the Grandin Printing Building where the Book of Mormon was first published and then the Joseph Smith farm and Sacred Grove. We all enjoyed the Spirit that emanates from these sacred locations. We drove on until 9 PM stopping just outside Kirtland OH. Tuesday morning we headed to the John Johnson farm where Joseph Smith spent a year and received many sacred revelations. We next stopped at the Kirtland Temple and at noon headed to Austin. We arrived home just before midnight after driving through some of the most spectacular lighting storms I have even seen and some of the worst rain I have ever had to drive through.

We are just happy to be home for awhile. Amanda decided to move into Steven and Micah's house until it is sold. So Wednesday morning she borrowed David's truck and three loads later we had her out of her storage unit. It was a blessing she decided to move as her storage unit had leaked and all of the items on the raised wooden slats were wet and all the cardboard boxes which were stored higher were starting to giveway from the humidity. Many items where starting to mold so she had lots of clean up to do before she could even move in.

Then Wednesday afternoon I picked Paige up at the airport on her return from her summer internship in Alaska. She will spend a few days with us before going back to her last year of law school.

I think since we arrive home in March we have not actually been home more than about 5 weeks so this period home will be longer than our total time home so far. Then it is off to Utah, Oregon, California and Arizona again.