Walking in Joseph's Footsteps

We are officially residents of New York City! We found a great place on Roosevelt Island (in the East River between Manhattan and Queens). Before our stuff arrives on the moving truck tomorrow (and all my time is spent digging us out of boxes), I wanted to post on our last vacation before James started work. We spent June 28th to July 4th with all of James' family on a church history tour in Palmyra and Kirtland. A huge thanks to James' parents for a very fun and testimony-building experience!

Hannah and her cousins at the Smith Family Farm
We had a great experience walking as a little family through the Sacred Grove
The kids partaking of Grandpa's wisdom at the Hill Cumorah
The visitor's center at the Hill Cumorah. Hannah loved the Christus and kept saying "Jesus loves me," and Allison and Johnny blew us all away with their thoughtful answers to the missionary's questions
Greg and Tiff, Beav and Britt, and James and I enjoyed a session in the beautiful Palmyra temple
The Grandin Printing Shop where the Book of Mormon was first printed
The Palmyra locks at the Erie Canal
The original John Winder family in front of the Peter Whitmer farm where the church was officially organized
Looking very pregnant
Hannah posing for the camera at the Whitmer farm
Up close to the falls on the Maid of the Mist. Hannah didn't know what to think when we were on the boat, but after it was over, she couldn't stop talking about riding the boat in her blue dress.
Horseshoe Falls
The whole clan in front of the Whitney store
The room that housed the School of the Prophets on top of the Whitney store
The saw mill in Kirtland (I don't think even the saws could have separated Hannah from following her cute cousins around!)
The ashery in Kirtland - looking very undisturbed a few minutes before Hannah decided to dive into the ashes!
Hannah is a monkey at heart and loved climbing the trees in Kirtland (with Daddy's help, of course!)
The Kirtland Temple
Hannah and Grandpa at the John Johnson farm (the site where Joseph Smith was tarred and feathered and one of the Murdock twins died)
Peter, Hannah, and Christian enjoying the stumps at the Isaac Morley farm, and a few seconds later, they all started enjoying the worms under the stumps even more.