Birthday Trip to Palmyra

Palmyra Temple

( The only temple with clear glass windows. President Hinckley wanted members to be able to look out over the Sacred Grove from inside the temple!)

I'm sorry I'm such a bad blogger! I think I've hit a rut in blogging! I don't like blogging about dumb stuff and I try to find interesting witty things to blog about when I do get around to doing it! So since my birthday was on Sunday I guess that's interesting enough to blog about, especially since we were able to have a little "get away"!

Ryan had to do some business in Rochester, New York right around my birthday and so he asked if we could make a get away out of it. I thought it would be fun after figuring out there was a H&M at the mall in Rochester, so I said sign me up!! :) But that wasn't the only reason I said yes to the trip. Palmyra, New York is about 20 minutes away and we had both never been to see the church history sites. Granted no one really goes there in the dead of winter but I think it proved to be just as beautiful, colder but beautiful. We left all three kids with Ryan parents and left for NY on Friday. Saturday we got to go and see the Smith Family farm, their log home and the frame home they built as well. It had snowed about a foot a few days before so it was quite the trek into the grove. It's a very peaceful serene atmosphere and Ryan and I really enjoyed ourselves. Driving through the town or "downtown" of Palmyra was so awesome we just loved it. All the houses are so beautiful and it was so fun visiting a place as old as Palmyra. We of course did all the LDS tourist things and went to the Grandin Publishing Company on Sunday after church. Oh church... it was a REAL ward with all the cooks to go along. Awesome spirit and wonderful faithful people. That was fun! I'm so glad we were able to have a little trip with just the two of us. It was really hard leaving the kids but I'm glad they got to spend that time at their grandparents! Thank you Fred and Debbie and Ryan and Lacey for helping take care of our kiddles. Here are some pictures from our trip. Of course there is only one of me and none of Ryan and I together. We got one picture when we were at the Grandin Publishing Company but the cute little sister missionary doesn't know how to use a digital camera with all the bells and whistles, oh well!!

The Smith Family Log Home where the angel Moroni appeared to Joseph Smith

Inside the log home

Entering the Sacred Grove on the south end

I just fell in love with all the homes in Palmyra and some of the adjoining towns like Pittsford

I loved this funky green building!

I had to take a picture of this house with the red door! A lot of the homes there have red doors I LOVED it!! I'm thinking of changing my front door color!!

P.S. HAPPY BIRTHDAY DANEY, MY OTHER HALF!! LOVE YOU!