Tenth Avenue North

This past Friday and Saturday I went to two concerts by my favorite band, Tenth Avenue North! I had planned to take some of the kids to the concert on Friday night. We were heading somewhere else on Saturday morning when my Dad had this great idea to drive to Iowa to see them again:) So we did!! It was well worth the four hour drive!! If you have not heard of this band you should check them out. Their music is really good, and they also have a great message to go along with their songs. I love the way they make the concerts all about giving glory to God, not to theirselves!

I'm posting a few pictures from the concert on Saturday!

I Heart Faces: Funny, Silly Faces Photo Contest

This is my entry for the I Heart Faces silly photo contest!!!

Missori Part 5: Cardinal's game

On the way home we stopped in St. Louis again, and went to a Cardinals game. The Cardinals were playing the Phillies! Sorry to say I was rooting for the Phillies!! I'm a Cubs fan what can I say :) So I'm posting a few pictures, there not in any particulate order. Just posting them how the computer uploaded them :)

One of the players got hurt pretty bad, they had to carry him off the field. He ran head first into the wall. OUCH!!

Missori Part 4: The Bettendorf's house

Well it's been awhile since I posted! I've been so busy! But I'm going to try to finish posting about Missori today:)

So we went to the Bettendorf's house. It was a lot of fun! the kids had a blast!! Here's a few pictures...

Jenna and Kaylea...

The group minus my parents and I :)

Missouri Part 3: Little House on the Prairie

Well now comes my favorite part of our trip! We got to go to the Laura Ingalls Wilder museum in Mansfield! This is the place that she lived after her and Almanzo were married. Where she wrote the Little House books!! It was sooo cool! I've loved the little house books since the first time I read them! I think I've read about every book you can find about her!LOL

In the museum and the house you are not allowed to take any pictures. We got to see Pa's fiddle, some of the original manuscripts, letters written to her family, and tons more!

The house was so cool! No one has lived in the house after Laura died so everything in the house was exactly how she left it. The calendar hanging on the wall in the kitchen was even open to the month she died in.

Then we went to the house on Rocky Ridge, this was the house that Rose had built for them. She thought the farm house was to much for them to take care of. This is the place that Laura first started to write her books. They later moved back to the farm house.





We went to vist the grave sites of Almanzo, Laura and Rose.

Missouri Part 2: The Gateway Arch

Day 2 in Missouri we went to the Gateway Arch! We had tried to go the night before, but we got there 15min to late. The next morning we packed up the camper and headed into St Louis on the way to Mansfield. It was quite an adventure with the camper in the city:) You have to park all campers and bus on this road along the Mississippi. The river was flooding while we were there and they were closing all the roads going off of the road we were on! The only road open was this narrow little brick alley in old town St. Louis! It was quite interesting trying to drive the camper up that road

 

 The Arch was a lot of fun! It was really busy there though. It rained so the pictures aren’t the best.

 

The flooded Mississippi!

The kids love Calvin and Hobes and we found this wall with a comic panted on it!

~Cassie