The Robins Curse

Anybody that knows my family well knows that every trip we go on, WITH OUT FAIL, has some crazy, bizarre, disastrous, wild, thing happen.  It's impossible for us to just have a calm, relaxing vacation.  I'm definitely not complaining, they make for GREAT memories.  I remember all of our vacations because of the crazy disasters we have on them.
Well this trip was no acception, it definitely had its share of memories.  My family and our good friends the Woolley's borrowed a big RV from a friend so they could drive out here to Missouri, spend Easter at our house, see sites in St. Louis and finish off doing the church tour of Nauvoo.  Although it was a little crammed in our house, we had a wonderful Easter with everyone.  The next day we all went to St Louis and went to the Science Museum, the arch, the City Museum, the St. Louis zoo, and the Budweiser factory (weird right? But it was actually really cool).  Well that's when our RV's transmission decided to break.  So, while the RV was in the shop getting repaired, we rented some vans and made our way up to Nauvoo.
I cannot even describe how amazing Nauvoo is.  There is such an amazing spirit there.  I love being in the Nauvoo stake and love even more that our temple is the Nauvoo temple.  Such incredible history there.  Well after that my family had planned to start the long trek home.  Sure enough the RV still wasn't fixed and it wouldn't be fixed for another 4 DAYS!!!!  We had dads that needed to get back to work, and kids that needed to get back to school.  Well, those people who HAD to get home rented a van to drive to Utah and those who could stick it out for 4 more days decided to head back to St. Louis and find more sites to see.  That was the VERY abridged version of our trip, but I don't think we'll ever forget the trip where we were literally stranded in St. Louis.

PICTURE OVERLOAD!

The family arrives!!!!!

Some of the gang inside the RV.

Kiddos sleeping in our house.  There were bodies everywhere.

Cam the Man

Playing at the lake.  Carter loved playing with the boys.

The whole gang

Jacey boy is such an awesome uncle.  Carter loves him.

Playing at the park.

Snuggling with aunty Heidi in the RV.

In St. Louis at the Science museum.

Hailey and Jace at the Science Museum.

All the kids looking down at the cars zooming past underneath our feet. (sorry it's so blurry)

The city museum was awesome!  There were crazy tunnels everywhere.

Carter hung onto Cam like a little baby monkey.

Cute uncle Dev.

Cam and Adam spinning around on the hamster wheel.

The ULTIMATE playground.

Budweiser Factory

They gave out free beer samples at the end.....we enjoyed our lemonade.  haha.

The petting zoo at the St. Louis zoo.  Carter was in HEAVEN!

I love this girl.

Then the RV broke down....booo!!!

But we made it to Nauvoo!  The beautiful Nauvoo temple.

 Aunty Angie.  Carter has such beautiful aunties.

Joseph Smith's home.

Grandma got Carter matching t-shirts with Uncle Jace.

Twinner boys.

Like I said earlier, awesome Uncle.

It was so fun having my family come out.  Even though we never have a normal trip, it's always an adventure with these guys.