There's No Place Like Home

Well, a year and half later we finally made the trip back home. It may only be a four hour drive, but until now it was an impossible trip. Things just started falling into place and working together so that we could travel to visit our family. It was definitely a wonderful vacation.

While we were visiting we did the somewhat courageous adventure of playing in the snow with Michelle and her cousins. We went cross country skiing around a park near my brother's home and then went sledding. Michelle enjoyed being pulled in the sled behind Tory and we enjoyed being outdoors again.


Here's Michelle in the sled that Tory pulled while skiing around the park.

Here's our cute little niece ready for our adventure in the park.



Here's my nephew ready to go, and lead the group around the trail.

Michelle being cute and just enjoying being outside with everyone, enjoying not being left behind.

A picture of us all together, enjoying being in nature.

Here are some pictures of the new Rexburg Temple while walking around campus. This was one of the main reasons we had been planning and trying to work out all the bugs in our equipment, so we could go through the open house. We were completely amazed by the beauty of this building. As soon as we were done with our tour all we could think was, "We have to go see it again."

Michelle with Grandma and Grandpa Thornton.



Here is a picture of four generations of McCrackens.

Here is picture of the Temple at night. Again I will say, it was so incredibly beautiful. Even though this trip took lots of planning, fixing, planning, and more planning, it was worth it. We don't have ruby red slippers that magically take us home when we become home sick, but we found out that it is not impossible either. There's no place like home.