June 4-7 I love New York. I think I mentioned that before. If there is one place that is home to me, it is New York. Which is kind-of strange since I grew up far from New York in sunny Florida. But, I came into myself in New York, I met and married my sweetheart in New York, I had my first 2 babies in New York. I love New York. I feel so privileged to have wonderful in-laws who live on a beautiful farm and have a way of life that is REAL. I love it and feel so thankful whenever I visit. We enjoyed time on the farm- helping with the work, fishing, enjoying time with family, going to story time at the library, and going to the nature center. We also had the privilege of going to the temple to be a art of the sealing of the Ward Family. As I mentioned in the last post, Kenneth's sister and brother-in-law adopted 4 children and they were sealed in the temple on June 7th. It was beautiful. When a family is sealed, they are joined together for eternity. The temple is such a sacred and beautiful place. What made it more special, it was in the same room where Kenneth and I were sealed 10 years ago.
Enjoy the pictures:
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| Discovered a goose nest, which we kept on eye on to see when the eggs hatched. They hatched after we went home. |
But, Aunt Karen sent a picture for us to see:
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| Here they are! Aren't they adorable! |
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| Fishing with the cousins |
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| Aunt Jenni holding Kate |
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| Kenneth helping the kids fish- the pond is right out in front of the farm house. Wonderful! |
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| This was a separate Daddy-son fishing excursion, and Grant caught something! |
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| Is he delighted or what?! (you can see the farm house in the background) |
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| Grandpa showed Grant how to take care of a fish so you can eat it. Scott supervised. |
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| Emma with the calves. |
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| Grant with the calves |
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| Arianna with a calf. |
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| The kids with the cows. |
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| Another shot- love that sky! |
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| Running through fields of wildflowers! Gorgeous! |
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| Taking an evening walk, or run? |
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| Kate loves to be outside! |
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| Climbing on the bales during the evening walk. |
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| At the nature center (just 10 miles from the farm)- feeding the fish |
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| Grant and Kate watching the fish |
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| Lydia, Arianna and Emma climbing in a tree at the Roger's Nature Center |
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| Walking down to the pond to fish |
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| Kate loved chasing this cat! |
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| Arianna learned to ride a bike on the farm- just like Emma did. |
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| Kate, enjoying nature |
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| Arianna enjoying nature, of the fuzzy variety |
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| Arianna torturing nature. Good thing 'nature' is a good sport. |
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| Kate let Uncle Dennis hold her! That's progress for her! All the time we were there, she still cried when Grandpa looked at her. |
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| Chalk drawings at the library for story time. We love the Sherburne Library. |
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| The kids had a blast making a 'house' under these trees. They spent quite a bit of time there. Sam, the dog, liked to join them, too. |
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| View of the pond from the house |
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| More tractor rides! |
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| The Beautiful Ward Family on their sealing day at the Palmyra Temple |
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