Val & Collette Cook Family

Here are pictures of Emma and Jared. At Halloween. Jared and Miki Johnson. They went to homecoming together. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

I have been taking a math class. I just have the final left. Val has helped me so much I wouldn't have made it without him. Here is a sample of my work. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

We are now home and settling into the routine. School is full swing. We are getting use to having our own space. I don't have to wear flip flops in the shower :) It's great to be back amongst friends. Thanks fir following our blog. More pictures will be coming. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

We went to church with Nathaniel, Amber, and Adam. We had dinner with the family at Veloy and Tamara's. Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

On the the last leg of our journey visiting family. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

On our way to the Teton's we drove through Yellowstone and made one stop. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

We went on a backpacking trip it was great but exhausting. We are all sore. We hiked 10 miles out. That was a killer.

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Went to the Virginia ward. Bishop Given was nice he invited us to his house for dinner. Then we met Barbara Doying who is campground host here at Cross Lake Minnesota. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

We had quite the adventure. Canoeing portaging ( hiking with backpacks and canoes). We saw bald eagles, fish, lilly pads, ferret, and much more. We are dry and happy at the laundromat while it rains out side. We have a bunk house to sleep in tonight. Here is a picture of us at the laundromat. Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

We arrived at Ely Minnesota. We were debriefed on our boundary water canoe trip. We will be taking off 4 days in a canoe. This will be an adventure. Last night there was a huge thunder storm This morning we were getting packed and a sheet of water came at us we were trying to get the trailer down in time but we got soaked. Then we drove over to Wisconsin so the kids could get a new state. In Walmart.

To start the day we had a flat tire on the way to a tire store. Then we headed north to Minnesota. Where we found the biggest mall ever and went in and rode the roller coaster it was fun. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Went to the Trenton branch the members were so nice the Holden family invited us to dinner. In the evening we went to Adam-ondi-Ahman and read scriptures.

We slept in Zion. The visitor center was very spiritual. We felt the spirit of the early saints. After lunch we went to the Arabia Steamboat Museum. Camilla was right it was like a Walmart in the 1850's. On our way to camp we went to Far West and saw the temple site. The day before we saw then new Kansas City temple. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

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Another wonderful day we went to the temple early then to the sites. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

We are in the most wonderful place on earth. I love the spirit here. Here we are at Heber C Kimball's home. Nauvoo temple

We went to the Lincoln Museum. It was so well done. Here we are in front of the log home. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

We had a traveling day with a slow start. We went canoeing kayaking and paddle boating on the pond that we camped at. It was called hideaway camp. It was a family run place lots of fun things to do. After boating we went to shower and swim. We didn't leave till noon and had a 6 hour drive. The drive turned out longer because of slow traffic for construction. We went trough a corner of Indiana and a time zone. Illinois has a lot if corn fields so we took a picture. We got off the freeway for gas then a book store and discovered that we were on historic route 66. That was fun. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

After church we drove to Richland Michigan where Phinias Wilcot Cook lived when he joined the church. We found bus parents graves. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Henry Ford created a place where you could go back in time. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

WE RODE DRAGSTER - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

What a wonderful day. We went to the church sites. There is such a spiritual feeling here. At the end of the day we had dinner with Rosida and Clyde Haacke. It was so nice to visit with them. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

We took a ferry to Isle au Haut and backed 4 miles to a campground on the island. This is the shelter we pitched our tent in. Oh did I tell you we could have ridden the ferry right to our camp or had the ferry drop our gear but as Jared put it "that would be boring. "

We decided to stay in Acadia instead of going to Cutler. We had great wet walk. We climbed up Beehive. Then had lunch. When lunch was over I saw the clouds getting darker then I heard a noise it was the rain coming. We got soaked. It was great fun. It was Brianne's birthday she had a great day. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

We went to Salem to learn about what happened there. Our ancestor Susannah Martian one of the twenty convicted and killed. There was a memorial for them. There was a peaceful felling there. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Today was a nice day.  We went to church with Ellen and a great time visiting with them. a couch what is that  They have internet so we were able to get stuff done on the blog.  Check out the new pictures.