JD and I flew from San Juan to Omaha on Thanksgiving day! My whole family was there with the exception of my brother and his family. We stayed at my sister Staci's house and it was great. There were 8 kids running around! We even did a little "Black Friday" shopping but we -- okay, me --
I do NOT wake up at 4am. Not even to save money. We were out of the house by 7. That's kinda reasonable.
Friday night of that weekend we celebrated 4 birthdays: Amy, Staci, my dad, and niece Anna. They all have birthdays within 2 weeks of each other. Our nieces Kennedy and Delaney put on a magic show for us that night and JD was a guest performer for the evening. Who knew that he could make balloon animals!!!? He also just made crazy hats. I am not sure if I really knew this. It was fun evening!
On Sunday JD and I drove to the Winter Quarters temple in Nebraska to look around. We walked through the Visitor's Center and walked around the pioneer cemetery across the street -- which shares space with the temple. We learned that the early Saints of the Church buried their dead there. Luckily they made a map of the area indicating where each body was laid. This was a very good (inspired) idea because years later people started burying other people all over it -- and the Saint's gravestones all became lost. There is only 1 visible gravestone left from the pioneers. It is that of a woman and her two sons. So, we have a map of each Saints' name and where they are located -- though there are no gravestones. There was probably a hundred or more people on the map -- 2 of them being JD's relatives.
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| We are standing in the cemetery. It was actually really pretty, especially with the temple. |
JD and I flew from San Juan to Omaha on Thanksgiving day! My whole family was there with the exception of my brother and his family. We stayed at my sister Staci's house and it was great. There were 8 kids running around! We even did a little "Black Friday" shopping but we -- okay, me -- I do NOT wake up at 4am. Not even to save money. We were out of the house by 7. That's kinda reasonable.
Friday night of that weekend we celebrated 4 birthdays: Amy, Staci, my dad, and niece Anna. They all have birthdays within 2 weeks of each other. Our nieces Kennedy and Delaney put on a magic show for us that night and JD was a guest performer for the evening. Who knew that he could make balloon animals!!!? He also just made crazy hats. I am not sure if I really knew this. It was fun evening!
On Sunday JD and I drove to the Winter Quarters temple in Nebraska to look around. We walked through the Visitor's Center and walked around the pioneer cemetery across the street -- which shares space with the temple. We learned that the early Saints of the Church buried their dead there. Luckily they made a map of the area indicating where each body was laid. This was a very good (inspired) idea because years later people started burying other people all over it -- and the Saint's gravestones all became lost. There is only 1 visible gravestone left from the pioneers. It is that of a woman and her two sons. So, we have a map of each Saints' name and where they are located -- though there are no gravestones. There was probably a hundred or more people on the map -- 2 of them being JD's relatives.
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