Nauvoo Pageant 2011

We are so blessed to live near Nauvoo, IL.
Having the Nauvoo temple as our temple is so amazing!
The girls have come to love and learn so much about Church History and the Restoration of the Gospel.
And in July, we get to go and watch the Nauvoo Pageant and play pioneer games and just be together!
This year the girls each got a pioneer bonnet and they wore it all day.

Cutie girls (tired little Emma) in the bonnets, that kept the sun off their faces!


One of the greatest things that happened this year was that one of my best friends, Amy, was there with her hubby (love ya nate!) and their Stake Youth Group!


Rachel sawing the log!


Go Emma!


Rachel and Sarah working so hard!


Sarah and Emma pulling one way...
AND

Rachel pulling the other way!


Then they decided to play on the same team and they all won!

One of the really fun things that Emma and Rachel did was dance in the Pioneer Dancing!

Emma and the actor who played Hyrum Smith


Rach dancing her little heart out!


Skippin' and skippin and skippin Emma!


Have a great time, huh, Rachel!

~We had to do the Handcart Pull!~

Sarah and Rachel pulling their little sis, Emma!


Now it's Mom's turn to pull the girls!
It's hard to imagine having to pull and walk across the country.
Wow, those pioneer men, women and children were so strong!!!


The girls enjoying the puppet show with their own puppets!

The Pageant:

Watching the actors testify of the gospel was beautiful!
The songs were amazing and the Spirit was so strong!


The Nauvoo Pageant is such an inspired program!
My testimony of the Restored Gospel of Christ and Joseph Smith is stronger each time I am in Nauvoo.
Our family will miss this area so much when we move.

The Gospel of Jesus Christ has blessed our family so much.
I am grateful to know that we can be together as a family, forever!
This life is not the end!

I love my family so much and want to be with them forever!
I am grateful to Jesus Christ for his Atonement for me!