Trip to Tennessee

Just warning you now that there is a lot of pictures. We were gone a week to Tennessee for my nephew Tanner's baptism and we did a lot of things, but I tried to just do a few pictures of each thing. It was fun being with my sisters, and their families and my parents. I sure do miss being with them.
On our way to TN we stopped at Independence, MO and visited the church sites. This is the temple site where Joseph Smith stood and announced the spot for the temple to be built.
We visited the Memphis temple, it is one of the small temples, but like all the temples, BEAUTIFUL!!
















Ed signing the Elvis Presley wall in Graceland, TN























We went to a place called Mud Island in Memphis it is really a peninsula as there is one road onto it. It is an imitation of the Mississippi river and shows down to where it empties into the ocean, the kids had fun following the small river and then playing in the big waterfall area at the end, was nice to cool off in a hot, humid day.



Alycia loved picking blackberries and got really excited when they were really big ones. All the cousins had fun picking we got a bucket full then went home and made lots of blackberry jam, YUMMY!!
Zach loved getting into Aunt Raelyn's cupboards, but then he found one just perfect for him an EMPTY one he loved climbing in and playing peekaboo with someone, what a cute kid if I do say so myself.

For Tanner and Shea's birthday we went roller skating, it was fun to see the kids getting better on their skates, Alycia decided two skates were hard, so she took one off and did it that way, too cute.





On our way home we stopped at St. Louis at the Arch, WOW that thing is big.