Happy Birthday Harry Potter!

As a loyal Harry Potter fan, his birthday must be celebrated. Today we had a birthday party for Harry. It wouldn't be complete without butterbeer, chocolate frogs, bertie botts every flavor bean guessing game, and birthday cake. Happy Birthday Harry! :)

Missouri

Independence

Liberty Jail Visitors Center

Community of Christ Temple

Far West Temple Site

Adam-ondi-ahman

Jamesport

Amish

Hannibal

Mississippi River Cruise

Richmond

Civil War battlefield

Things That Matter Most

"We would do well to slow down a little, proceed at the optimum speed for our circumstances, focus on the significant, lift up our eyes, and truly see the things that matter most....Strength comes not from frantic activity but from being settled on a firm foundation of truth and light. It comes from placing our attention and efforts on the basics of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. It comes from paying attention to the divine things that matter most."

-dieter f. uchtdorf

Ohio, etc

Kirtland

Whitney Store

Cemeteries

Kirtland Temple

Community of Christ

Kirtland Temple Quarry

Church

Johnson Farm

Lake Erie

Lighthouse

New York

Buffalo

Palmyra

Sacred Grove

Smith Farm

Fayette

Peter Whitmer Home

Hill Cumorah

Grandin Print Shop

Palmyra Temple

Owego

Erie Canal

Martin Harris Farm

Niagra Falls

Canada

Absolutely gorgeous. I think New York could be my new home:)

fotografy :)

mexico...i miss you.

Oh Mexico. Its been almost 2 years since I saw you.

I want to go back.

To see a totally different world than what I live in. To see only dark skinned people. To be able to help people who don't have everything I have. To have little kids run to me with their arms open and wanting me to practice speaking english with them. To be welcomed into their homes and fed by people who can barely feed their own family. To eat rice and beans and tortillas, fresh strawberry juice, and churros off the street. To see how happy people are who live with what we would consider "nothing". To see how lives are changed when people are given the resources and tools to support themselves. To see how smiles and laughter crosses any language barrier. To see the sun rise and set over a place very different from what I see every day. To be able to make a difference somehow in even just one persons life. Maybe someday I can visit again:)

To Do List Updated:)

I've been thinking about what I want to do before I die. Not like I'm 85 and nearing death...haha. But I am 19 and nearing family and kids and all that stuff that can alter life plans! So....there are some things that I want to do. And the time is now approaching for some of these....

• Paragliding (20th birthday?!....)
• Skydiving (sounds nice...but I'm not sure I'm up for it yet. But if I wait too long then I will have no sense of adventure anymore! :)
• Go on a church history tour (I can check this one off in just a few weeks!)
• Write lots of letters to missionaries and other people
• Be on the Amazing Race (just dreamin here....)
• learn spanish
• ride in a hot air balloon.
• Go on a humanitarian trip to somewhere in South America
• take my future family on a service trip too
• go snorkeling and swim with turtles
• go to Hawaii (the snorkeling would work well here:)
• become a social worker
• go on a mission
• go to another country to teach English (India?...)
• be an EFY counselor
• be in the pillsbury bakeoff
• write my own cookbook
• write a cookbook for college student
• go to Ireland, Italy, and the Seychelles Islands
• have kids
• adopt a black baby
• learn to surf
• be a wedding planner (I might be working at Magnolia Grove until i'm 40...)
• go to Prince Edwards Island in the fall (or anywhere east coast)