Spring in Chesterfield

Addy found my high heels and she's really good
Saying cheese a little too hard
Driving the car and saying choo, choo(she knows that because the train comes by the trailer)

Our friends who are graduating. Brad had a nice finals rally mustache but, I am happy to say it is gone now!

It has been a great spring! We have been having 75-80 degree weather and I cannot complain about that! The sad part about this time of year is saying goodbye to good friends we have made here and see them moving on to real life. (that's what we call it when you aren't a student anymore!) IT was sad to see 3 families move but, fun families are still here we just don't want the day to come when no one is in the trailer park with us but maybe then we will be leaving:) There was a bbq for the families who graduated and these are the pics.

Addy was having so much fun playing on the slides and swings but she especially loved her balloon! And then I was so excited it was finally nice enough weather for Addy to wear Grandma Sue and Aunt Lindsay's cute dress they gave her. She started to say cheese and smile before we even took the picture so now we are in the stage of Addy squinting her eyes when we take a pics. You can never get a perfect pic with these non professional cameras!! Addy is growing up, and saying all kinds of words she just has to start putting them altogether. She is definitely trying to put words together but they just aren't clear.

We can't complain life has been pretty good oh except the tornado sirens going off on Saturday!! Yes I said it Tornado Siren!!! It was a first for us, basically it was raining really hard almost all day and on the bottom of the tv the warning was first severe weather, then it went to tornado watch then it went to tornado warning and then Brad and I fell asleep and woke up to the siren going off. Addy was sleeping so I really thought I don't want to leave but Brad said I will get Addy and you go to the car. We went over to the mall looking like we came from the trailer park! We waited an hour and then there were blue skies and sunshine! It was crazy and we did hear there was a tornado in the city next to us so always be safe than sorry! We survived our first Torando Sirens, yeah!:)

NAUVOO

The back of the Nauvoo temple right in front of our hotel. Which we liked but we were under the kitchen so that doens't work when we were trying to put Addy to sleep and sleep in a little

Carthage jail
Addy with Jospeh and Hyrum Smith at Carthage jail
B and Addy in front of Joseph, hyrum and emma smith's grave
Addy and I walking the trail of hope. There were journal entries from the saints, amazing to read their thoughts when they were leaving....
Backside of the temple
Front of the temple:)
this statue is right in front of the temple, where Joseph and Hyrum stood before they rode to their death in Carthage.
The sunstone from the original temple
We had such a great time in Nauvoo! It is only 2 1/2 hours away so we took advantage and went over the weekend. Addy did ok on the ride but she was very good considering how boring this trip probably was for her. It is fun to go in the homes and shops but the wonderful missionaries give you a long story of what happened there. Well, Addy's attention span is one minute maybe so we only went in one home and the blacksmith shop and she ran like crazy so we didn't do anything else.We did experience the Nauvoo hotel buffet. We thought it was perfect for nauvoo, there are no fast food restaurants anywhere so you have to experience this buffet. It was good southern food and the next morning we had Grandpa Joe's breakfast across the street so Brad and I basically need diets!! The temple was gorgeous and the weather wasn't great the first day in fact it was pouring rain but the next day it was sunny and a little cold but nice enough we could go visit everything we missed. It was amazing to imagine the pioneers looking across the river and thinking let's go! Because I would be very scared but that is why they are more than amazing because of their faith in the Lord. This trip helped us realize how grateful we are for everything we have , we definitely have been blessed. It helps to put everything into perspective. We are grateful that the saints did go to Salt Lake and build the church we don't know where we'd be without it. All that to say everyone should go to Nauvoo and get a little spiritual boost:)