Visitors!

A couple of months ago Jeremy and Shannon brought their family down to visit us.  This first picture is of my niece Jessica.  We spent a lot of time in the pool while they were here.  Unfortunately, the would be hilarious pictures/video were not captured on film.

This next picture is of my nephew Josh.  While he was here we worked on a few of his swimming requirements for scouts.

This is my niece Katie.  She and Alyssa were able to pick right up where they left on when we last visited them in Utah.  That's one of the things that I love about our family.  Even though these kids have only seen each other six or seven times in the last four years, they are able to get together and play like they saw each other yesterday.  I hope that they can always remember that comfortable with each other.

And last but not least, this is kassidy.  Ambrey and her were as thick as thieves while she was here with us.

We didn't spend all of the time in the pool.  On one of the days that they were here we went to the Goldfield Ghost Town.  It was originally a small town built around three gold mines, but eventually the grade of ore dropped and the town died out.  The ghost town has been rebuilt for tourists like us to visit.

This is the second building that you see after arriving at the town.  The first is the train station, which has a train that travels around the town.

This is the gold mine that is open to the public to tour.  We followed our tour guide through the mine and then on to the mystery shack.

This is the mystery shack. It is a small two room house that was built on a slope.  This was Alyssa's and Ambrey's favorite part of the day.  Unfortunately we came to late in the season to see the gun fights.

As I mentioned before, the town has a train that travels around the town.  This is it.  It is capable of traveling pretty quick.  Unfortunately I don't think we went faster than 5-7 mph around the whole town.

The kids locked up in the cage outside of the hat house and saloon.

On the last day that we were in town we visited the Mesa temple grounds and visitors center.