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For Day 5, Part 2 of our trip to Nauvoo, we attended the temple. First my four oldest kids attended while my husband and I and Grammi took the littles on the ox cart ride. Then the kids all went … Continue reading →

Thursday morning of our trip to Nauvoo we took the little kids for the oxen ride with Grammi while the teenagers and my 22 year old son went to the Nauvoo temple to do baptisms.  Here’s my youngest pulling a … Continue reading →

We capped off the night of our first day in Nauvoo (Day 4 of our trip since we took three days to drive there from Utah) by going to the play, Rendezvous in Nauvoo. As you can see by the … Continue reading →

After we went to the brickyard and the Lucy Mack Smith home, for our Day 4 trip to Nauvoo, the adults in the group went to the Nauvoo Land and Records Office. This is the place to go if you … Continue reading →

On Day 4 of our trip to Nauvoo, we came home for lunch after the wagon ride. While eating lunch, my  mother-in-law mentioned that she thought the home of her ancestor, Jeremiah Hill Hatch, was still standing in Nauvoo, but … Continue reading →

This is the Browning Gunsmith Shop and Home in Nauvoo, Illinois. I missed taking a picture of it, so I got this photo from the browning.com website. The picture belongs to that website. You can read about Jonathan Browning on … Continue reading →

On Day 4 of our trip to Nauvoo, we went to the Lucy Mack Smith home right after the Browning Gunsmith Shop and Home. This is the home where Lucy, the prophet Joseph Smith’s mother, settled in after most of … Continue reading →

If you ever go to Nauvoo, be sure to take the wagon ride. Despite some of my children’s expressions above, it was a very pleasant experience. I loved hearing all of the stories from the missionary tour guide. We traveled … Continue reading →

This is a model of the real Nauvoo Temple. We saw it in the Winter Quarters’ Visitors Center. It was what the Saints left when they came to Winter Quarters, but it was a lovely reminder to us of what … Continue reading →

For Day 3, we woke up in Omaha, Nebraska. First we went the Mormon Trails Visitors’ Center, where Winter Quarters used to be.  We had many ancestors who lived in Winter Quarters. Unfortunately, we didn’t have time to go across … Continue reading →