Bear with me....my site is under construction.
I decided to play around with it a few nights ago.....change up the picture at the top, change the background to something Christmasy, etc. Wouldn't you know, I messed it up! I don't really know what is wrong with it. I was able to see the new picture of the boys at the top just fine but heard from several other people that after the blog opened up, the picture would go black. So, I am trying to fix it. We'll see what I can manage to do with it.
In the mean time, it'll probably be different and only partly finished for the next week or so until I can get it figured out.
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Friday, November 19, 2010
The Post I've Been Putting Off
Leading up to our move I had great plans of posting pictures along the drive across the country but that just didn't happen. I am not kidding when I tell you that I have hundreds and hundreds of pictures from our trip. True that about half of them were from the Ingalls Homestead (Little House on the Prarie) but that was such a huge higlight for the us that I couldn't help myself.
Well, now that we are here I've kind of been dreading this post because it meant sorting through all of the pictures and trying to limit it to as few as possible.......that is hard to do. So, picking up where I left off the night we stayed in Minnesota and I actually posted, here is the rest of our trip (plus just a couple others from the early part of the drive)
This was my view almost the entire way (the truck I mean)
Yellowstone is a very cool place but kinda stinky. Samuel is not a fan of sulfur smell!
Pit stop after Yellowstone. I think they missed each other, having been separated between the two vehicles!
This is "the Big Slew" that was next to Laura's house. They had to walk all the way around it to get to school or town.
The prairie where Laura grew up, ran, played and worked. We pitched a tent right on the prairie! So cool!
Pumping water out of Pa's original well for Zoe.
Our night on the prairie was a rough one. First we couldn't sleep because of a huge lightning storm not too far off....so we sat in the dark and watched it in our p.j.s (not a good idea and you'll see why a few pictures down) After the storm it got really windy and Luke and I literally had to hold the sides of the tent up in the wee hours of the morning because the wind was bending the poles and pushing the sides down on top of our sleeping boys. We could see why this place was so hard on the pioneers!
The site of Laura and Almanzo's house where Rose was born. The house is no longer there. It was only about a short drive from Ma and Pa's but would have been a full day to go visit and come back home in a wagon.
In the town of DeSmett they still have the original surveyors house where Laura and her family stayed the first winter they lived here. They were all alone, there was no town yet and no other settlers.
This is the original building for the Loftus store that we read about in The Long Winter. It was located right across the street from Pa's building that he had built in town.
The Little House on the Prairie!
Inside a shanty that belonged to a family who lived down the road from the Ingalls. The shanty was taken apart and rebuild on the Ingalls homestead to give visitors an idea of what shanties were like when families first put a claim on land but had not build their houses yet. One room for the entire famliy!
Luke and I sitting down for a meal in the dugout. Also recreated so that you can see what the Ingalls family lived in as they moved around. The dugout is their home from On the Banks of Plum Creek.
Doing the laundry just like Ma did.
Inside the little house. This is the "sitting room" that was added on in the later years. It held Ma's sewing machine,a stove for warming and Mary's organ for when she came home from blind school.
Just walking in the front door of the house you are in the kitchen/dining area and can see right into the bedrooms. Such a simple place!
Samuel got to drive the team of horses through the prairie on our way out to the schoolhouse for a lesson!
On our way out of town we stopped in the DeSmett cemetary. Everyone from the Ingalls family is buried here except Laura and Rose. This is Pa's headstone.
Ma
Mary
Grace
Carrie was there too but for some reason I didn't get a picture.
We left the Prairie and headed to and through Minnesota
No relation, but cool none the less.
Leaving Minnesota and crossing the mighty Mississippi River into Wisconsin
A somewhat short drive through the very pretty state of Wisconsin to Illinois
Can you tell that we were kind of tired and done sight seeing once we left South Dakota? I just have pictures from the car and mostly they are just the state signs.
We camped just north of Chicago for the night and then got on the road early to miss the rush hour traffic driving through the city.
Into Indiana
I missed the Ohio state sign so you get to see one of the turnpike. In Ohio we met up with Brendon and Amy who were staying at Beulah Beach with her parents for a little vacation. We stayed the night there. Our last night on the road....the next day we would head to New York.
Remember when I said watching the lightening show in P.J.s on the prairie was a bad idea? This is Samuel's leg......apparently the mosquitoes were awful. No one said a word to me about being bitten and I don't ever get bothered by the bugs so I had no idea it was this bad! Believe me I was more careful from there on out because his entire body looked like this! OUCH!
Our kids and the Cochran kids were great friends right off the bat. It's so nice that they get along so well.
Pennsylvania! Getting so close. We stopped at a rest stop just over the border and the first thing we saw was a truck pull up to get gas, the tailgate and camper window popped open and a load of Amish men piled out. We had to laugh. I didn't think they would appreciate me taking pictures of them piling out like a bunch of clowns in a tiny car so I kept my camera in the van.
WELCOME TO NEW YORK!!!!
This picture is especially for my friend MaryLou (and anyone else who hears the name New York, and instantly thinks New York City). The entire state of NY looks like this....beautiful farm land, trees and rolling hills. It is NOT cement and skyscrapers. It's an absolutely beautiful state.
Almost to our exit off of I-90....it was a long drive across the country on the same road almost the entire way!
I didn't get any pictures pulling up to the house because we stayed at the Cochrans for a few days until the house closed. Then I didn't get any pictures of unloading the truck because we were just so glad to be here and start settling and unpacking that I forgot. But, this post is done now and I can start in on pictures that I have of us in our new home and new town. I've got some good ones, so come back! I have to add that if you made it to the end of this post, pat yourself on the back. It was a doosy!
Well, now that we are here I've kind of been dreading this post because it meant sorting through all of the pictures and trying to limit it to as few as possible.......that is hard to do. So, picking up where I left off the night we stayed in Minnesota and I actually posted, here is the rest of our trip (plus just a couple others from the early part of the drive)
This was my view almost the entire way (the truck I mean) 
Yellowstone is a very cool place but kinda stinky. Samuel is not a fan of sulfur smell!
Pit stop after Yellowstone. I think they missed each other, having been separated between the two vehicles!
This is "the Big Slew" that was next to Laura's house. They had to walk all the way around it to get to school or town.
The prairie where Laura grew up, ran, played and worked. We pitched a tent right on the prairie! So cool!
Pumping water out of Pa's original well for Zoe.
Our night on the prairie was a rough one. First we couldn't sleep because of a huge lightning storm not too far off....so we sat in the dark and watched it in our p.j.s (not a good idea and you'll see why a few pictures down) After the storm it got really windy and Luke and I literally had to hold the sides of the tent up in the wee hours of the morning because the wind was bending the poles and pushing the sides down on top of our sleeping boys. We could see why this place was so hard on the pioneers!
The site of Laura and Almanzo's house where Rose was born. The house is no longer there. It was only about a short drive from Ma and Pa's but would have been a full day to go visit and come back home in a wagon.
In the town of DeSmett they still have the original surveyors house where Laura and her family stayed the first winter they lived here. They were all alone, there was no town yet and no other settlers.
This is the original building for the Loftus store that we read about in The Long Winter. It was located right across the street from Pa's building that he had built in town.
The Little House on the Prairie!
Inside a shanty that belonged to a family who lived down the road from the Ingalls. The shanty was taken apart and rebuild on the Ingalls homestead to give visitors an idea of what shanties were like when families first put a claim on land but had not build their houses yet. One room for the entire famliy!
Luke and I sitting down for a meal in the dugout. Also recreated so that you can see what the Ingalls family lived in as they moved around. The dugout is their home from On the Banks of Plum Creek.
Doing the laundry just like Ma did.
Inside the little house. This is the "sitting room" that was added on in the later years. It held Ma's sewing machine,a stove for warming and Mary's organ for when she came home from blind school.
Just walking in the front door of the house you are in the kitchen/dining area and can see right into the bedrooms. Such a simple place!
Samuel got to drive the team of horses through the prairie on our way out to the schoolhouse for a lesson!
On our way out of town we stopped in the DeSmett cemetary. Everyone from the Ingalls family is buried here except Laura and Rose. This is Pa's headstone.
Ma 
Mary
GraceCarrie was there too but for some reason I didn't get a picture.
We left the Prairie and headed to and through Minnesota
No relation, but cool none the less.
Leaving Minnesota and crossing the mighty Mississippi River into Wisconsin
A somewhat short drive through the very pretty state of Wisconsin to Illinois
Can you tell that we were kind of tired and done sight seeing once we left South Dakota? I just have pictures from the car and mostly they are just the state signs. 
We camped just north of Chicago for the night and then got on the road early to miss the rush hour traffic driving through the city.
Into Indiana
I missed the Ohio state sign so you get to see one of the turnpike. In Ohio we met up with Brendon and Amy who were staying at Beulah Beach with her parents for a little vacation. We stayed the night there. Our last night on the road....the next day we would head to New York.
Remember when I said watching the lightening show in P.J.s on the prairie was a bad idea? This is Samuel's leg......apparently the mosquitoes were awful. No one said a word to me about being bitten and I don't ever get bothered by the bugs so I had no idea it was this bad! Believe me I was more careful from there on out because his entire body looked like this! OUCH!
Our kids and the Cochran kids were great friends right off the bat. It's so nice that they get along so well.
Pennsylvania! Getting so close. We stopped at a rest stop just over the border and the first thing we saw was a truck pull up to get gas, the tailgate and camper window popped open and a load of Amish men piled out. We had to laugh. I didn't think they would appreciate me taking pictures of them piling out like a bunch of clowns in a tiny car so I kept my camera in the van.
WELCOME TO NEW YORK!!!!
This picture is especially for my friend MaryLou (and anyone else who hears the name New York, and instantly thinks New York City). The entire state of NY looks like this....beautiful farm land, trees and rolling hills. It is NOT cement and skyscrapers. It's an absolutely beautiful state.
Almost to our exit off of I-90....it was a long drive across the country on the same road almost the entire way!I didn't get any pictures pulling up to the house because we stayed at the Cochrans for a few days until the house closed. Then I didn't get any pictures of unloading the truck because we were just so glad to be here and start settling and unpacking that I forgot. But, this post is done now and I can start in on pictures that I have of us in our new home and new town. I've got some good ones, so come back! I have to add that if you made it to the end of this post, pat yourself on the back. It was a doosy!
Monday, November 15, 2010
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