Memorial Weekend

Over Memorial weekend, Celeste's parents and her little brother flew out to visit. It was going to be the last time we would see Brennon for two years. He is headed out on his mission in the middle of June and because of our schedule we are unable to make to if farewell so they came to us. They were also able to celebrate Brindi's birthday which is always nice to have family around for those type of events.

After Brindi's party, we headed to a bar-b-que for dinner are a friends house. They do this party every year and have a pool, basketball hoop, badmitton court, and then thier tractor lawnmower to pull the kids around. It was a fun get together. Later that night we headed to the Rascals ball game with the free tickets from Lindenwood. We left early but had a great time cheering, eating nachos, and playing the fan games that they do at these small market games.

Sunday we headed over to the St. Charles riverfront. St. Charles was the first capitol of Missouri back in the day. It is also the location where Lewis and Clark started their trek west. At this point of the trip Brindi had forgotten she had parents or just did not care to acknowledge us. It was all about "pop pop" (Grandpa).

Monday we headed up to Nauvoo for the day and did a temple session with Brennon. While in the temple, Sonja and Brindi went throughout the town and visited with the reenactors and got a personal brick. After the temple we grabbed lunch and of course some fudge and then walked around the town and visited the store and family grave site of the Smiths. It was great being able to visit such an important area in our Church's history.

You will have to tilt your head to watch the video, but it was taken when we were in Nauvoo. On Tuesday we headed to the Boone Home to do a little fishing and to walk around the Boonefield Village and throw a couple tomahawks. Celeste's family left later that day. It was a great little vacation and we loved having family visit.

Ever since they left, Brindi has been carrying around a picture of "pop pop" and insists on sleeping with it. Its been a little tough on her having no one but her mom and dad around. She is such a cute girl and loves her family a lot.