We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.

Rylan had a whole week off for Thanksgiving so we seized the opportunity to go visit our friends the Johnsons who live at Fort Drum, New York.   The Johnsons were our family when we lived in South Carolina, so naturally we wanted to visit during Thanksgiving, and they so graciously let us! We left Sunday night after church and drove until about 9:00pm. Then woke up and drove some more. I love these two, they are so close. While driving I turned around to check on them once and they were holding hands!  Oh and Maddy was sucking her thumb, which she does to irritate me. "Mommy, I'm a lion!"  Our first stop on the way to NY was Kirtland, OH.   Kirtland is a small settlement in northern Ohio where members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gathered shortly after the Church was founded. Between 1831 and 1838, Joseph Smith and early members of the Church established Church headquarters in Kirtland, built a temple, and laid a fou...

We fit in one more camping trip right after my parents left to Kankakee River, IL with our friends the Ricks!   The boys were hoping that they would catch some fish in these waters, but they didn't get one bite! But Trevor did teach my kids how to skip rocks!  He is quite the rock skipper! We went on a lovely hike  and found some mysterious specimans....a giant brain like mushroom?  and this:                                                                                  which we later found out according to Wikipedia is a: Maclura po...