St. Louis

We stopped in St. Louis, MO on our way to Nauvoo and met up with Grandma, Grandpa and our cousins.

Looking at the Mississippi river in the shadow of the Gate Way Arch!

Waiting in line to ride the tram up to the top of the arch.

Some of the great views from the top of the arch.

We parked next to the helipad on the Mississippi River right below the arch.

Looking at Illinois across the Mississippi.

Grandma and Aunt Laura at the top of the arch.
There were observation windows on both sides.

After visiting the arch we headed to Nauvoo to our rental house. 

June Fun with TN Mitchells

We headed to TN as the first leg of out two week road trip.  They are building a new house so we got to play out at their land and help a little too.

Everyone loaded up and headed to TN!

The power went out for a little while one day while we were there.  Calais found a light and read stories to the kids until the power came back on.

Josh (1 year)

Clover and Josh

Nathan sporting Aunt Melissa's hat and sunglasses.

The kids were excited to help dig the trench for the foundation.

Holden, Clover, Bradley, Atlas, Daniel and Eliza

Nathan is pretty handy with a shovel!

Andy talking with the inspector.  He had to make sure the plumbing was run right...

When it got too hot the kids headed to down to the creek to cool off.
Bradley

Bradley, Holden and Daniel


Guard and Daniel

This is what the house looks like as they are getting ready for the pad to be poured.

Digging foundations is dirty work!

Clover


Eliza

Nathan

We took some time to go swimming...

 

 

 

The kids loved playing in the yard with Timber!

Josh and Dad

Bradley trying out the roller blades.

Daniel on stilts

Holden on stilts

Nathan


Nathan and Clover

Putting in the rebar for the foundation.


The gravel is in....

Atlas

We did a bon fire and cooked hot dogs, bacon wrapped shrimp and s'mores for dinner.

Uncle Daniel had to help get the fire going.

Waiting for some coals to cook over.

Dad kept working in the trenches!

 

Everyone loved the bacon wrapped shrimp!

Josh ate a whole shrimp!

And of course the s'mores were delicious!  We had a lot of fun with our TN Mitchell cousins!!