June 19

Anna, Rachel, and Ryan woke up early this morning ( oh yeah) I heard a lot of commotion and whispering than Anna came in and pulled on my toes and told me to get up and help them make breakfast in bed for Dad. What a nice thought but highly impractical in the Rv. Plus all we had was cereal and milk. So we let Daddy sleep in while the kids colored some father’s day cards and I got ready for church.

My kids are so lucky to have such a wonderful Father. He works hard and plays hard. He is kind and funny, committed and compassionate. He makes me happy and motivates me to be better. I am extremely lucky to have him. I am also very blessed to have the Father I did. Sometimes I wonder what I could have possibly done right to be so lucky to have such a wonderful family.

In the fall of 2009 some Cambridge saints were enjoying Stake Conference when the fire alarm went off. That has happened to me before. If it was anything like the meeting I was in they probably just sat there for a minute trying to decide what to do. The leaders probably didn’t want to interrupt the meeting by sending everyone out but probably didn’t want to be responsible just in case it was the real thing. So they probably debated a bit and then decided they better evacuate. Well as they all went out into the parking lot they were probably really surprised to see smoke pouring out of the roof. The building burned pretty significantly. That has got to be hard to see your building burn. Well they saved what the could and started rebuilding. They got it finished up just in time for us to attend there rededication. It was a really nice meeting with President Eyring doing the dedication and President Packer speaking. But really what are the chances that both weeks we try and go to church they are not holding sacrament meeting. The church really should post that kind of thing on there website. When we do find a ward – we kind of expect they will be holding sacrament meeting. The kids were pretty happy about it because church was supposed to start at 11:30 and the dedication started at 10:00 so we missed most of it. And the kids didn’t have to go to primary which everyone but Rachel hate going to in a strange ward. So everyone was happy. The church was right next to the temple so we went over and took pictures and walked around a bit. It is one of the best landscaped temple I have ever seen – and Salt Lake is pretty nicely landscaped. It really was beautiful. After church we went over to Lexington and Concord. The kids wanted to know why we were going there on Sunday. I explained (hopefully not rationalized) that were were visiting a battleground where many people lost their lives for our freedom and that makes it a sacred place. We reminded them about how we had been reading in the Book of Mormon about Nephi finding the promised Land and Heavenly Father telling him it was a special place reserved for those who were righteous and only people that He lead there would find it. We talked about all the prophecies about how Go d would lead us to the Americas and then help us win our freedom from England and set up a free nation. So the birth of our nation can be seen as a sacred thing worth learning about and remembering on Sunday. Plus what else were we going to do all afternoon in a 30 ft Rv. I really like the minuteman park. It has some really nice presentations and feels like a special place. We watched a presentation on musket loading and shooting, walked part of the trail where Paul Revere road and went to the visitors center. It was a really nice day.

We had a bit of a hard time finding a campground in the Boston area so we decided to come up North to Salsbury State Beach. It is right on the New Hampshire boarder. It was a nice campground on the beach. We got in right as the sun was setting so we ran over and took a look at the beach and then went and had some dinner and went to bed. The kids were so exhausted the fell asleep before their head hit the pillow – which has been the case almost every night.