I know it has been ages since we've written in this blog, that was because we had issues with our computer, but thanks to Eric Kerns, we have her up and running again!
I had to include this picture...It is a cruet set I saw in the John Wood home and museum in Quincy, Illinois...I fell in love with it and am looking for one to purchase...so every antique shop I go int, that is my mission to find one to take home...It is very typical of the time period of the mid 1800's...Isn't it beautiful...If you see one call me OK?
This is our Rendezvous cast..(Lucy Mack cast) Everyone but the Ririe's! We have become like family..We have great fun together!
We got to go to Springfield, Illinois to the Lincoln museum and Library..Here we are with the first family!
We loved the experience and highly recommend the museum for a family trip!
This is at the tomb of Abraham Lincoln..Thought it was funny that everyone must rub Lincoln's nose for good luck...notice the shiny tip of his nose...Inside there are several statures of Lincoln and they are about 2 feet tall and are amazing. A very reverent place I might add.
Lincoln's tomb inside the building !
One of many statures of Lincoln...He looks so pensive.
Dallin Oaks speaking at the Visitors Center about the Prophet Joseph. This was all a part of the Extradition hearing re-enactment...He spoke and gave an amazing testimony of Joseph Smith and then there was an open house afterwards...Both auditoriums in the Visitor Center were full and the stake center (video feed) was full too. There were lawyers everywhere..Judges too, people from all over the state and even out of state came to attend. During the day there were scholars presenting in different places in the city about the different aspects of the extradition hearings in the 1840's. We sat right next to Olene Walker, the past gov. of Utah. Lot's of dignitaries in town.. The next day in Springfield, Illinois the re-enactment took place and was sponsored by the Lincoln Library and the Illinois State Supreme Court. Actually was a big deal!
I'm opening the Post Office for the day...It is also a Dry good Store
This is the way people carried water..we have a standing joke that Mom would ask her son to run some water up to their father working on the temple....Nauvoo's first running water! HA!
Sorting box for the Post Office...One of the first Postmasters was Sidney Rigdon..it was on his kitchen table~!
Served in Nauvoo on the Road, and we went to Donaldson to a jpumpkin celebration...I loved this idea and wish we could do this at our little farm...It is a rubber ducky race...two hand pumps and see who gets their rubber ducky back first...It was great!
This young man from New Jersey, Sergio Galvez was amazing. We connected with him and were amazed at his testimony. He has been a member for two years and was so thrilled to come to Nauvoo...alone, on the bus...took a taxi from Ft. Madison to Nauvoo !!! He was documenting everything with his camera...He said that he couldn't believe it was real...He saw things about it on movies, but he is going to tell everyone that Nauvoo is real! Loved him, he went to the temple 2 or 3 times in the time he was here. Hope we can stay in touch!
This was fun, we went to a High School Football game (homecoming) in Ft. Madison just for fun...what great kids are here in the midwest...clean cut and great kids...This couple are friends who live here in our building ...the Pincocks from Rexburg, Idaho...Really sweet people
Elder Ririe and I served in the Lyon Drug store together...he was a botanical kind of apothecary, and this is his herb garden, he would us the herbs here to concoct a medicine to prescribe to his patients...Isn't it beautiful
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