Beginning week 3

Well good evening family and friends. We are in Des Moines IA at this time and it is approximately 10:10pm. We have had a wonderful day visiting some of the church sites on our way and out of our way to Atlanta. Our first stops on Sunday and Monday was Mt rushmore and the surrounding area, the badlands, crazy horse and the scenery at Custer State park. What a beautiful journey. When I get settled in GA. I will send some pictures for you all to see. Today we went to Winter Quarters visitors center and the Council Bluff center. They really made us appreciate our pioneer heritage in our family. One of our relatives Erastus Bingham was with the Mormon Battalion. They even had a biography on him. We are very thankful for all of our blessings. Hearing about what the pioneers went through has reaffirmed my desire to be more faithful in keeping a journal. We would not know what they went through if we did not have their journals. Dad and I were saying how much we are blessed. What a beautiful country we live in. Tonight as we were driving through all of the corn fields we watched the moon come up a bright orange and as it moved high into the sky it became bright white. I am amazed at all our Heavenly has provided for us and we need to be thankful for all. We love you guys and we will forward pictures after we can land in GA and see where things are. Take care and all of you get cameras for your computers so that we can see each other once in a while. We have ours and when we settle we can all hook up and talk. Email all of you soon.

Don't forget Katelyn's birthday this Saturday. happy Birthday katelyn.. Love you lots