>Our quick day trip to toronto where we enjoyed the mid-evil dinner theater. Eating a four course meal with our hands, while watching a theater show, with real josting was quite the experience! We had tons of fun being treated like Lords and Ladies!
The grand entrance. The competition begins! We were cheering for the yellow knight!
My mother, grandma and myself in our crowns!
>Niagara falls, of course! My Grandma had never been. We showed off the Canadian side(the NY side is so disappointing), and enjoyed an afternoon shower on the maid of the mist!
The American falls!It was a beautiful day to go and see the falls!
Us girls on the Maid of the mist!
We also stopped by the huge Hershey store and tried some yummy fudge!
My mom and I giving the kiss a kiss!!
>We took a day to spend in Palmyra. We enjoyed Hill Cumorah, the temple, the Joseph Smith farm, sacred grove, and the book of mormon publication site. I had never been to the Grandin Building(book of mormon publication site), so that was very interesting to see how the book of mormon was published and the story behind it. I must say I have been out there numerous times, but my favorite part is the Joseph smith farm and sacred grove!
One of the first editions of the book of Mormon. It was in paragraph form.
A beautiful picture of the temple.
-A quick little story about the Palmyra temple. It is the only temple that has a window where you can see inside the temple from the outside and look outside from the inside. President Hinkley was standing in the temple while it was being constructed and said he wanted to stand in the temple and look out a window straight into the sacred grove. So there is that one window in the temple that you can see straight out of into the sacred grove, "The Hinkley Window."Three generations in the sacred grove. It was so beautiful!
>On our way home from Palmyra we stopped at the outlet mall. We were only in there for less than a hour, but I walked away happy. 4 shirts, and one pair of pants for $55!! What a deal!!
>While my family was in I had a few projects that I was able to use their assistance and guidance on. First the basement: I want to make it more inviting down there, so we made "curtains" or hanging sheets to close off half the basement(for storage and laundry), so the other half I can carpet and use as a craft room, office, or whatever!
Me showing off the basement. It looks so much cleaner now!(don't mind the crazy outfit, after church I just through on random pjs!)
Next, a few baby blankets, I bought the material a while ago, but needed some guidance, my grandma is good at sewing/crafts, so now I have blankets and burp cloths, for a girl and a boy! We just need to get started now!
One of the girl balnkets, the boy one is in camo. I think they turned out cute. (its hard to see, it's folded up)
I also wanted to make some cute halloween placemats. I got an idea from pottery barn kids, and am patterning mine off theirs! I am still working on those so no pics!
>We even had time to get some pedicures. There are so many salons here in Williamsville, so we took an afternoon, after our day at Niagara Falls to relax and get pampered! Oh, it was my grandma's first real pedicure too! A lot of firsts for her on this trip!
>And we were well fed of course. Not including all the food I made at home, we enjoyed some yummy buffalo pizza, the pancake house and one of our favorites the Cheesecake Factory!
John and I both enjoyed our time together with our family! We had so much fun doing all that we did, there is so much fun to do and so little time. Thanks again for the visit!
**Oh, this is for all my AZ friends! I am coming down October 20-27th so we have got to get together and do lunch or a girls night or something fun!! I can't wait!**
