So after three short years in Lexington, Kentucky, Christian graduated from UK with his certificate in Orthodontics and his Masters Degree. We are so proud of his hard work and accomplishments!
Christian's parents were so kind to come up for the celebration. His professor he worked on with research and the invited speaker are pictured with us here. It was an honor to work with them.
Christian's parents were incredible and helped us pack our 2400 square foot house into 9 feet of trailer space. They are tetris geniuses!
We hit the road the next day ready to camp and play along the way! My Korean neighbor gave me this headband as a goodbye gift. We had the best neighbors in Kentucky!
The boys were terrific on the way. We felt very blessed.
Our first night we had trouble finding a place to camp. Everywhere we looked were just windmills! Finally, we found a little place that was $5.00 a spot with free firewood. As it was already dark we counted our blessings and stayed!
Our first stop the next day was a little town called Carthage, Illinois. It was in the local jail here that the prophet, Joseph Smith Jr. was martyred over 100 years ago. It was a reverent place to be.
Our next stop was Nauvoo, Illinois. This was one of the first settlements of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day, Saints. I was surprised at how beautiful the temple was and how much I wanted to go inside. I finally decided that even though we were only hoping to stay for a short time, that I would go inside and Christian would watch the boys. It was such a beautiful and peace-filled experience.
While I was in the temple, Christian took the boys to see old-time Nauvoo. They had a lot of fun!
That night we were able to stop by and see our dear friends the Riggs. It was so much fun to see them! We spent a few days with them and just had fun!
After that, it was back to the car! The boys were once again Champs!
Christian obliged me to stop at this restaurant in Nebraska (who knew that Nebraska was a huge wetlands area?) It was not as good as the online reviews suggested :)
Finally, we made it to Car Henge. The weirdest place in Nebraska!! But the kids had fun and it was free!
It was made of real cars---the wheels actually moved!
We kept driving and felt like real tourists when we were taking pictures of the Bison in North Dakota!
We camped that night in a super sketchy campsite that had free wifi but the password was "rampage" which kind of freaked us out! Luckily we escaped unscathed! We had a campfire and watched the stars. Camping with kids sure is fun! (Although Tyson was terrified we hadn't put the fire out all the way. That boy and fires!)
We woke up early and made it to see Mt. Rushmore. The boys were sort of impressed!
The fog came rolling in as we were taking pictures.
Within seconds you couldn't see a thing!
So we kept driving...and made it to Montana late that night!
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Rampage-hahaha that's a new one!
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