Headed to Ohio

Joseph and Eliza are on their way back to Ohio.

They packed their car AND they were able to fit their wedding photos in too! Except for one really big frame, so the frame is still in the basement, but we opened it and got the photo out, so now they can go thrifting to find a big ol' frame in Ohio and then put it up on the wall in their bedroom, haha. Beautiful photos though. In heaven I think God will let us have nice big photos like that of our wedding day. We didn't get that done here on earth though. 

Anyway, so they are on their way. They asked me to take a photo of them before they headed out with Eliza's car. 

Joseph wore the exact same clothes on purpose, to recreate their pre-road trip pic from last summer!

Doh, we should have had the right door open. Oh well. I like how the backpack being swapped out for a diaper bag this year! A lot changed in a year! Having Mary here is the best part. Eliza with her Mary, and Katharine with her baby Mary too. Cute. She's a little mother. 

I took a few pics of kids with Mary. Natalie had the most. She didn't totally hog her, but she was pretty quick to take Mary if she fussed while the boys were holding her. 

(She might have hogged a little bit.) But everyone did get a turn. Katharine ~

Peter

And Daniel. Yay, Mary is awake!

Owen ~

Natalie (again...)

Sophi

Lily ~

So it was fun. The girls and boys all loved having a baby in the house. We'll have to go down and steal Alvie from Ethan and Bella now and then to get our fix. 

I was kinda going nuts today and needed to get outside, so we went up the canyon for FHE tonight. I felt much better once we were up in the mountains. Walking on the quarry trail. 

Corey and I let the kids know we bike this trail every day. "Good for you, mom and dad." Yeah, you guys would be impressed if you tried to bike up to the ruins. Not to mention going on Techy. Dad and i are hardcore. We took a little path off the trail and found some trails to boulders. We saw chalk on them and tried to see if we could hold them. They were impossible. I can't believe some people can climb things like this! I was able to hold on to the beginning of this one. 

Maybe I could do better if I had climbing shoes. We got back on the main trail, passed the 1st bridge, and then explored paths on the south of that. There were lots of boulders there. 

I've never explored any of that area before! It was fun. Corey stayed back with Lily...

and Daniel, Peter and I let Katharine lead the way up a trail. We found a pretend house with door between some boulders, that lead to a table. We set our dinner with sticks for our forks and spoons. Lots of places for imagination. Natalie was a mountain goat and climbed to the top of every boulder that she could. 

Soon the sun was setting and it would be dark, so we headed back to the car. Katharine blowing a dandelion. Cute little lips

Then we got some Red Button Ice cream and I let Lily drive us home from the store. Joseph and Eliza made it to the east side of Montana tonight, 4 hours away. They plan on going to Nauvoo and so will be driving for a few days to get home.