Kleinman family reunion!

Aunt Kathleen, Colson, Brandon, Cannon, Aunt Jennifer & Tyler. We had a fun evening at Aunt Leslie's home in Riverton.

In birth order: Cathy, Brent, Leslie & baby brother Craig. All together in Utah!
Leslie and Cathy (Nana) with baby Cannon on his three week birthday!

Boy cousins with the latest boy cousin! Watch out Cannon!!!

Cara and their "favorite" Uncle Craig and Kelsey. (We really do love all of our Uncle's!)

What a beautiful family we are blessed with...

What beautiful boys we have!!! We are so blessed....

Love this picture of Jen & her baby Cannon. YOu can see the pure joy and love Jen has for this precious baby. Love these two...

Another shot that is so precious. Jen is going to be such a wonderful Mom to little Cannon. She truly will mold him into a wonderful boy.


Cannon our little bundle of joy. Jen's cousin does an awesome job with her photography. Of course, her subjects are pretty easy to use. Her web site is: kristenspencerphotographycannon.blogspot.com if you would like to see more of these truly beautiful pictures.

Our beautiful little Cannon

Don't you just love this little picture of our two boys? Cannon is eight days old in this shot that Jen's cousin took. We get to see him in a few days!!!

Introducing the Smith Family plus Cannon!

Here is Kurt & Jen and brand new baby Cannon James! They are enjoying their first night home together as a family. Cannon had to stay in an extra day to make sure all was well.

They are thrilled to have their brand new baby boy as we are to have our first grandson!! He weighed 7lbs. 13oz. and was 21 inches long which was one pound bigger & two inches longer than his Daddy.

Washington DC

Jamie, Kylie & Cara at DC Coast our first restaurant we ate dinner at in DC. Kylie was so well behaved.

Kylie at the Smithsonian Castle. We went to the Air & Space Museum which was amazing. Did I mention the great weather we enjoyed. No humidity!!!
Kylie, Bapa & Nana in front of the White HOuse. Rick got up early one morning and got us tickets to take the quick elevator up to the top of the Washington Monument. What a view!!! It took almost forty years for that monument to be completed. They ran out of money and if you look close you can see where the new stone starts.

Jamie & Kylie, Rick and Cara at the White House. Jamie is half way through her pregnancy! She looks wonderful!!! I got to feel baby kick which was so exciting.

More of Philly..

This is Christ Church where all the patriots and the entire Congress went to worship here before they signed the Declaration of Independence. I believe that these men were acting in the name of our Father in Heaven. Let us all protect our Freedom's. This was the house of Betsy Ross. I remember when I was a little girl loving to read about her.

Jamie, Cara and statue pondering about life. This is what I look like while I ponder : )

Kylie pulling out some of her finest dance moves as she goes up the steps of Independence Hall. Did you know that she likes her water....Super-Dooper cold? It is true!!!

Conrad, Rick and I did the little tour at America's first Mint. It was super interesting seeing how coins are made. We saw bins and bins of brand new pennies. Do you know how to tell where your change is made? I do....

Philadelphia our country's first capitol!

We toured Independence Hall and saw where my great x ? Grandfather, John Adams sat as Vice President of our great country! Rick, Cara, Conrad and Jamie in the room where the Continental Congress met. I love history!!!! Cara and Jamie with some colonials, downtown Philly has so much history.

Conrad & Jamie & Kylie in Phila. We were so glad that Conrad got to be with us for a few hours before he went off to sell.

Ta...Daaa the Liberty Bell. This was the side without the crack. Hear freedom ring!

Independence Hall. We loved going through with the tour guides, they were all so informative & really peaked my interest in relearning our great nation's history. We had perfect weather and ate at an awesome restaurant, Cosi. They are all over the eastern seaboard & I want one wherever we land!!!

More of Kirtland and Hiram, Ohio

Rick and I at the Johnson Farm in Hiram. Love the white hydrangea's in the background. This is such a special room. D&C 76 was received here and Joseph Smith & Sidney Rigdon saw our Savior & Heavenly Father. I testify that this truly did happen here~ the spirit was so strong here & my favorite scripture is D&C 76: 22-24.

Cathy and her Semus clan~ Jacob, Emma, Katie & Joseph at their home in Chardon, Ohio.

This is where Joseph & Emma's adopted twins were buried in Kirtland, Ohio among other Smith family members. I'm so grateful for their faith in our Lord.

I love this shot of the Kirtland Temple. This is a house of the Lord. I know that our Savior lives and loves & know each of us.

Trip to Kirtland, Ohio

The original steeple of the Kirtland Temple. This is at the Community of Christ visitor center.

The Kirtland Temple which is in Ohio. The first LDS temple in this dispensation. Becky Semus and her beautiful kids with Cara in the Newell K. Whitney general store.

Newell K. Whitney General Store.

Rick & Cathy & Cara at the Kirtland Temple in Ohio.

Summer Fun!

Sorry, no pictures, but I will put some on when we get back to Portage. Update: we have moved out of the rental home and are living at Jay & Laura Cammack's. The move went very smoothly and it is nice to have that behind us. We will miss our neighbor's the Owens, though. We have been traveling since July 3 when we left after Cara's shift at her job. We drove the five hours to Chardon, Ohio and stayed at the Semus's home then left the next day on the 4th for Philadelphia. We arrived at Jamie & Conrad's place around six and then got ready to go to downtown Philly for the festivities! We saw Sheryl Crow sing at the Rocky Museum (which is a premiere Art Museum) and watched the fireworks. Wow~ it was all very impressive. In the time that we have been here we have been to historic Philly and saw Liberty Bell & Independence Hall and other cool places. Had lunch at Cosi which is my new favorite place to eat at! Then off to Washington DC and spent two nights there and saw a list of things. Rick went early in the morning to get us tickets for the Washington Monument ( a must do & so impressive) saw the Lincoln Memorial, the Capitol and White House, The Air and Space Museum (Smithsonian), the Holocaust Museum, Library of Congress & Supreme Court to name a few. We took a taxi to see Georgetown for Cara's 19th B-day! that was her one request. Kylie sold kickboards at our hotel pool to other kids who were swimming. It is a funny story.. On the way home we ate pizza at Grotto Pizza in Delaware~ really good pizza! Then on our anniversary we spent the afternoon touring Valley Forge and had dinner at the Cheesecake Factory in the King of Prussia Mall (largest mall in America!) On Sunday we all drove out to Gettysburg and toured that amazing Visitor's center. I bought our tickets on line which saved us a few dollars and then picked them up at the door. The Museum, film and cyclorama were truly a work of love for this historical place. We were able to see some of the battlegrounds and walked around the national cemetary and saw where Pres. Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address. We put miles on our feet during this whole week. I want to visit this place again as it was one of my highlights of our trip. It has been a great ten days and we have all loved being with Jamie and Kylie. Ky is so full of personality and loves us all telling her stories that she gives you the character's for. She is a joy to us all. Jamie is barely looking pregants & the sad part is I look more prego than she does! Conrad is always working but it was fun spending the Sundays with him. We are so blessed to have America as our home land! God keep blessing America.....