Yesterday was the craziest day of summer we have had all year. They boys and I woke up early, picked up our neighbor Jaydn and hit the road! We met Grandma EE down in Lava and ventured east find the ghost town of Chesterfield. Grandma had learned about this place in one of her books. She had been wanting to go all summer but I wasn't feeling confident about taking the baby anywhere until recently.
What an AWESOME little jem of a place in the world! We had so much fun learning all about this little town founded by Mormon pioneers back in 1880. Many of the buildings have been restored and now youth groups can go and have awesome devotionals and campouts in this vacant town.
The assembly hall:
The mercantile which in now a museum:
The church building:
The store was SO cute! Grandma was LOVING it. The worker there showed the boys how to use all of the old wooden toys!
After checking out Chesterfield for a good 2.5 hours we backtracked over to Lava to spend the day at the pool. It is WONDERFUL now that all of my boys are big enough to go on the slides alone! It was wonderful having Grandma there to help watch the baby so I could get in the water and play with the boys too. It wasn't too busy and it stayed a comfortable 86 degrees. Perfection.
After leaving Lava Nate called and said he got the box seats to the Chukars game from his work. We ran home, ate, showered and changed and then headed to the ball game. We invited our cute friends the Turvilles to the game. Even though they lost we still had a great time!
The kids get to run the bases at the end of the game! So cute!
What a DAY!
A GREAT day.
1 comment:
Looks like an awesome old ghost town! How fun you have your Grandma so close to go explore with!
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