Family Visit

Joe's brother came to visit at the end of April. He drove up here from Utah with his wife and their 4 kids, and stayed for about 2 weeks. We had a great time with them here, and did a ton of sight-seeing. We spent a day in Hershey, PA, and a day in Gettysburg, then drove back up and relaxed for a couple days before heading in the other direction to Niagara Falls and Palmyra. His brother is getting ready to deploy, so it was really nice to get to spend some time with all of them before he leaves.

The whole town of Hershey revolves around the chocolate factory, right down to the street lamps topped with Hershey's kisses.

The kids donned paper hats and got to package up some chocolate.


We took a trolley tour of Hershey, which was really fun and informative. Learning about Mr. Hershey's life and his far-reaching philanthropy made me want to never buy any candy besides Hershey's!

We went to the beach one day, just to go see Lake Ontario. Even though parts of the lake had just been frozen maybe 2 weeks prior, the kids had lots of fun splashing around in the water.

Little Erik didn't enjoy the water so much; he was content to hang out on the sand with his mom.

Joe and Nathaniel promptly forgot that they were grown men with families and spent the majority of the vacation horsing around and beating each other up like only brothers can do. It was fun to see them enjoying each other so much.

The kids stopped to check out the creek on the way into the Sacred Grove.

The whole crew inside the Joseph Smith cabin. Madeline, me, Mina, Joe, Nathaniel, Erik, Lilly, Rachael, and Cyrus. Thanks for coming to visit!