The Wadsworth's

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

The HOME stretch!

The last few weeks of our summer vacay we spent with our family. It was so fun being with them but let me tell you...we were SO ready to be able to sleep in our own bed by the time we got home!

Nothing like a friendly game of Badmitten...that turned into a little banjo playing

and a little rock band! (is it just me or do they look like trolls?)

So glad that I got to see Leigh and her sweet Janessa!

And meet this cute little girl, our new niece, Klaire.

We spent the 24th in Panaca and Uncle Robert was definitely the favorite bringing his bounce house!

Addie-Lou!

Uncle Ray-Ray with Travis!


We were so glad to see Grandpa Price!

We had such an AMAZING summer! Definitely not one we'll do again soon but SO worth it!

The last little stretch of our trip, we went through Denver and the Braves were playing the Rockies so we couldn't miss it! We stayed with one of the sisters I served with on my mission, Julia Rosenlof (Smith now!) It was so much fun to be able to catch up with her! I served with the best sisters!

Right after we passed this sign, it started to rain and there was a double rainbow! It was so pretty I had to jump out of the car to take a picture even if grasshoppers were jumping all over me!

Are you beginning to see a theme to our trip...I don't think I've seen this much baseball in my life! :)

My hubby was in HEAVEN!

Thanks Julia and Nate! We had so much fun!

Independence...

One of the parts of our trip that I was the most excited about was going back to

Missouri and being able to take Raymond to see my mission!

My home away from home! Oh how I missed you Missouri!

The Kansas City Missouri Temple!

SO Beautiful! Already planning my next trip once it's dedicated!

Liberty

Raymond finally got to put faces to all the names that I always talk about!


Sweet Wendy!

Jacob & Sarah Wolfe & Brian & Brittany!

Anna and her family! Love them!

Bailey and MaKayla! They were my little sisters while I was gone!

I feel so blessed to have served my mission in Independence! I've been thinking about it a lot lately and the lessons that I learned truly have prepared me for the trials that I face today. Studying about the prophet Joseph Smith and learning about Zion have such a personal meaning to me and a day never goes by without thinking about some lesson that I learned while serving.

Cinncinati/Louisville

We had so much fun in Cinncinati! One of Raymond's mission companions, Scott Caldwell, lives there and he has been wanting us to come and visit for and while and it did not disappoint! At one point on the trip, I almost had Raymond convinced to move back east...but he will always be a boy from the west!

What's Cinncinati without going to a Reds game...

After we left, we headed to Louisville to the Louisville slugger museum.

Mickey Mantle's bat!

The only thing that bummed me about the trip was not being able to tour Churchill Downs...

we got there right when it was closing!

Can't be at the Derby without a big hat!

Grandpa Carroll & Palmyra

My dad's dad lives in New York, about an hour away from Palmyra and so we stopped to see him (and have Raymond meet him for the first time!) It was so good to be able to visit with him and be able to go to Penn Yan, since the last time I went was 20 yrs. ago!