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Here we are headed out on our family vacation.
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Lizzy, Daddy, and Joy enjoying the hotel swimming pool.
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My own private theater in the car!
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Our family at Adam-ondi-ahman
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Grandpa Turpin and Joy
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Joy playing with Grandma Turpin's cabbage patch doll.
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Joy very excited at the pizza place.
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Our family at the pizza place - look this way, Joy!
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Uncle Rich loves me!
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Grandma's table is good for teething!
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Cousin Trevor and Joy
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Our family with our Turpin grandparents
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Here is Joy getting ready for the temple! :)
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This is the Nauvoo Temple. Here very special rites are performed that we believe makes Joy a part of our family for all time and eternity. It was a very special day for us!
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Joy, outside the temple, after being sealed to our family for FOREVER!
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Our family by the temple
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Aunt Kathie and Joy outside the temple
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Mama (totally overjoyed!!) and Joy outside the temple
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Joy and her Turpin grandparents outside the temple
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Lizzy and Joy sitting on a fake sheep at the Pioneer Past Times.
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Mama was dancing. Joy LOVED that!
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Joy just loves her Uncle Brad. She tried to go to him several times. She never does that. :)