Driving across the Country

Well are move was cut shorter then we had planned for. So we where not able to spend as much time doing things along the way. Here are some pictures of the journey across the Country.

Leaving Washington State


These are pictures of somewhere in Wyoming.
Then There is a lack of pictures of Nebraska and Iowa just imagine corn field after corn field. We did stop for a couple of hours in Iowa to visit my friend Kacey Winterton Jones. I hadn't seen her in years so it was fun to visit her and see her cute kiddos. She lives in the middle of nowhere Iowa. Originally we would of loved to stay the night with them but because of or moving company we went with we had to get there in four and half days.

We then continued on down the road for about three hours to Nauvoo Illinios. I have been here before and was really excited for Joel to be able to experience this magnificent place. It is one of my favorite places I have ever been to. Joel was a little skeptical and not to excited, but we arrived into Nauvoo as the sun was starting to set across the Mississippi River. We pulled into town next to the temple and Joel immadetaly fell for Nauvoo the same way I have. Unfortunately for us we would not be there long enough to get to see all the little shops and buildings that you can tour through. We did catch the last show of the evening that the couple missionaries put on. I think Joel is better able to understand now why this is where I would love to serve a mission. We stayed the night at Hotel Nauvoo. It was a Monday evening we decided to walk around the temple grounds this was long after the sun had set. We ran into a nice older couple who we started talking to and it ended up being the Temple President and his wife. They of course invited us to come to the temple. Which we would of loved to do but we had planned on going and seeing Carthage and hitting the road the next morning. They insisted that we come to the early morning session. We both had are recommends so that wasn't a issue and they rent temple clothing. But Joel didn't have Church clothes on him. The temple President said that he didn't care. That shouldn't stop you from coming to the temple. There at the Nauvoo Temple they understand that people are always just stopping through. We couldn't believe what we where hearing. Joel still was like but I only have jeans and tennis shoes. He said come we will not turn you away. So of course we wanted to go but at the same time we felt completely stupid. We did get up early and we did go to the temple. Joel in is jeans and tennis shoes. It was amazing. We had such a wonderful experience there and where able to see the Temple President and his wife in the temple. We can hardly wait to go back to Nauvoo again and spend a few days there. Since we decided to go to the temple we did stop at Carthage but we only took pictures. I can't wait for Joel to experience it.




While driving through Indiana we stopped in Indianapolis. My sweet roommate from Ricks College, Sara Tyre drove a hour or so, so that we could see each other again. I was able to meet here kiddos she has 7. It was fun to have dinner with them and to catch up with her. She is such an amazing person, mom and friend. I was really so excited to see her after so many years. Now we are just hoping are husbands can get in a Masters program together.



From there we decided that we would continue the rest of the way to Tennessee. We pretty much drove almost all night to get here. It was I think about 4 in the morning when we arrived. I missed seeing beautiful Kentucky because it was night. The truck with all of are stuff arrived around noon. Sorry not pictures of the moving truck but we really did move. Thanks to everyone who helped us on both ends of this adventure.