Summer Vacation Stop #3

NIAGARA FALLS

We love Niagara Falls!!! It's so pretty. Behind us you can see Canada and the waterfall is called American Falls.
Earlier in the day we took a jet boat ride down some rapids further up the river. By far was one of the best parts of our trip. (Thanks Beth for the idea). We got drenched. No pictures sorry.



Maid of the Mist boat takes you under Horseshoe Falls. It really makes a horse shoe from Canada to the United States.


Under Horse Shoe Falls


Top of Horse Shoe Falls.


We had a lot of fun. It was super super hot this day. We rode the two boats, ate ice cream, took a trolly to the different touristy places, watched an IMAX movie about the falls, stayed at a brand new hotel on a local Air Force Base. Next time I hope we have passports to go to Canada. Every one we talked to said Canada is definitely the funner side. But I thought the American side was fun.

Summer Vacation Stop #2

We left Iowa early in the morning and headed to Kirtland, OH. It was a long day in the car so we let the girls swim at the hotel. I think everytime they got to swim was the highlight of that day. Who knew all you have to do to make a vacation successful is stay at a hotel with a pool. The kids will always be happy.


Dylan hobbling along with the Sister Missionary. He has a hairline fracture in his ankle from a fun little game of "monkey in the middle" with his friends in Iowa. (More to come on this little nightmare soon).


The Newell K. Whitney Store

The Kirtland Temple. The first temple built in this dispensation. The Community of Christ Church now owns it but we were able to tour it. It is very beautiful and stands as a reminder of the sacrifices the early saints went through to build it and then leave it.

Just for Amy and Sam

When we visited the Lofthouse's in Indiana, Amy and Samantha started making fun of me for not updating my blog. I told them how frustrated I get when I work on it because I can't figure out how to put the captions under the pictures and how to get the pictures on right. They taught me how to use Picasa. So watch out, my kids are all going back to school in a few weeks and I will have nothing to do but blog. You might be sorry you taught me how to do this :) Love you guys.

Some of our Favorite Iowan's

Dylan and his BFF Aydan

Do boys really call their friends BFF's? I wonder sometimes because whenever I say something about his friends to Dylan he looks at me funny. Anyway, Dylan had a ton of fun hanging out with Aydan.


The Thacker's and the Fluckiger's

We got to visit one of our favoritest families in Iowa and the kids had a blast playing outside in the rain.


Some of our favoritest people, minus the May family, in Ames.

The Taylors, the Thackers and us all went out to dinner at Valentinos in Ames.



Mark, Adrian, Suzanne and Bishop Tyler (hahahaha, he was called as Bishop the week after we visited. What a lucky ward). We love you guys.

Can I just say I LOVE Ames (and Nevada). We were so happy to spend a few days with our friends. I had so much fun. It really does feel like home to us (well the kids and I, not Mark, he didn't live there long enough to consider it home). We were so happy we got to see so many other friends too, and sad we didn't get to see everyone. Hopefully soon we can visit again. Thanks for playing friends.