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September 17, 2011 - Salt Lake Temple

Happy Feet!!!

This week I received my Altra Eve's in the mail! This is so exciting! They are the shoes that Jacob designed! They mimic being barefoot, and since that is my favorite way to be.... they are my favorite shoes! They are really comfortable. There is lots of room in the toe box so that your toes can spread out the way that they are supposed to when you walk. And the sole is very very flexible. Here are some pictures that I snapped when I first tried them on.

Sara's Mission Call

Sara got her mission call this week!! She goes into the MTC on October 19. We have a lot to do!
Watch the video to find out where she is going...

Missouri

Wow!  I can't believe how this summer has flown by!  David started school last week.  We had an eventful summer.   In June, David and I went to Missouri to do family history.  This is the second year that we have gone.  I blogged every night about the things that we did, which can be found at www.meanderingthroughourroots.wordpress.com.  There a lot of things that I enjoyed about Missouri. Here are some highlights of our trip.

I loved the wildflowers on the sides of the roads.
I didn't get a picture, though I tried.  We saw a few turtles crossing the road!

We went to Hannibal and hiked a Tom Sawyer trail.  It went up many, many stairs.  At the top, we could look down on the Mississippi River.  Here is a picture of a house at the top of the trail.  And when you turned around, here is a view of the Mississippi.  It was beautiful, and the hike was fun, but I was kind of disappointed in Hannibal as a whole.  I had envisioned a quaint little town, but Hannibal is fairly large.  The town of Louisiana was more what I had in mind when I envisioned Hannibal while reading Tom Sawyer.

Another thing that I loved about Missouri was seeing the Amish and the Amish buggies. They had their own parking stall at Wal-Mart!  I would have loved to get pictures of the cute Amish families shopping in Wal-Mart.   It was a great trip.  I hope we make it back sometime.