January 17 Kendall was ordained an elder by his father.

Kendall and Ken.

The family.

The great grandparents.

I found my paper that I made notes on about posting the blog. So i am playing catch up.
Opening the cousin gifts on Christmas eve.

The Christmas pageant on Christmas eve 2009.

The supervisors!

Mark and Paul as Shepherd's on Christmas eve. Mark looks a little happy about being a Shepherd.

We spent a few days with Val and Michelle just prior to Christmas. There was a ginger bread house decoration event.

The kids worked hard and cleaned up there rooms to ready for Christmas.

Granny's Christmas tree with presents displayed. We were spoiled with quality presents. Thank you everyone.

Paul is working on the Pinata (not sure of spelling) . The surprise this year was the snuggle blankets instead of PJ's.

Carthage

Monument of Joseph and Hyrum riding to Carthage for the last time. It is located accross the street from the Nauvoo Temple.

Monument of Joseph and Hyrum at Carthage jail. The jail is in the background.

This is the upper window that Joseph fell out after he was shot. They were moved here from the bared cell for comfort.

This the door to the room that the prisoners were in and the two bullet holes in the door, one on the edge above the door handle and the other above a little bit and to the left.

This a view of the jail from the side showing the upper window that the prophet fell out and the well that he landed by. The guard and his family lived in the lower floor. He sent his family away this night as he expected trouble.

Nauvoo

Nauvoo Temple. This is Sunday afternoon after church meetings. It rained while we were in church but stopped soon after. We were able to attend a session at this temple.

We played some pioneer games.

This is a rocking chair/bench. The baby laid on the one end and mother sat and rocked on the other so she could still sew or mend.

This is the printing press, centre is the furniture, wooden blocks to fill in spaces and borders. The space fillers and marks at the top or bottom of pages are called ding-bats.

Boxes of letters, each letter is in a capartment. The lower set are place like a computor key board with the more common letters together. The Cap letters are in the upper box. This is were we get upper and lower case letters.

The message from the press was we need to watch our P's and Q's.

Palmyra 2

Wooden presses and paper cutters for printing the Book of Mormon.

This is the van load in front of the publishing business of the Book of Mormon. There were 5,000 copies printed.

This is the office and desk were the contract to print the Book of Mormons was signed.

First floor of the print shop was a retail book store.

This original copy was found in an attic and donated to the church by a non-member. The format was different than we have now. It was more like a book with paragraphs instead the two columns per page that we are used to.