Four Jingle Bells

 The boys chilling!  We went to Le Claire to explore and came across this awesome garden that's behind a store.  The kids loved it! All the antique shops around here are so great.  We also went to the popcorn/candy store.  Painting with shaving cream.  We got a pass to the children's museum. We'll be there alot!  Funny face!  I told the kids to dress up and we would choose a book to what they dressed up in.  Ha.  Brooke was a fireman princess and Spencer was an army pirate. They are so funny!  Cool way to use play do  We won a gift certificate to an awesome chinese place so we went on a date there.  It was delicious!  Went on a Sunday drive.  This place is so beautiful!  Spencer at Children's museum.  Brooke before her haircut!

I went to Nauvoo a week before I had William with our Relief Society.  I had never been there before and it was the most wonderful experience.  To be were Joseph Smith and the early Saints were was such a great feeling.  And I felt an extreme amount of gratitude for them and all they did for their posterity to make our lives possible and wonderful.  And to have the gospel in my life and in my kid's lives.  We hope to go back when we finish reading the Book of Mormon as a family.  Two months, I hope! I came home from Nauvoo and found the kids had been helping Grandma Barb garden and found a bunch of worms in the dirt.  That's something every mom wants to come home to!  Happy smiling wormy kids.=) Hailey's teacher, Mrs. Rokes, has been such a wonderful blessing to Hailey!  She is such a great and happy person and made Hailey student of the week the first week Hailey came.  Hailey was so excited to show off her board.  We ar...