Visiting Friends on the Mountain

For Labor Day we headed over to the other side of the state to visit our friends, the Michaelis. They live on a beautiful property on Mingo Mountain, overlooking Lake Roosevelt and Kettle Falls (I love this picture of Ally on the hay ride that shows their amazing view in the background). Judah refers to them as our "friends on the mountain" and every time we can see the mountains from our house he mentions that they live over there. The drive over went very well, it was Samuel’s first long road trip and we managed to only have to do two stops! He slept most of the way. Judah enjoys watching movies on our travels. This time he only watched one, The Lego Movie, or as he calls it, The Everything is Awesome Movie. And he watched it 3 times in a row! Thankfully we had brought his earbuds so didn’t have to listen to it over and over. We did know where he was at in the movie because every so often we would hear him say, “spaceship, spaceship, spaceship!”.

Once we arrived we commenced with playing and relaxing. The dogs got to know each other again and the kids hit it right off. The kids even got to have a movie night with Rio 2. Samuel was a big hit with all the kids, they very sweetly entertained him as he lay on the floor, giving lots of smiles and laughs. On Saturday we took an adventure over to the next county over’s fair. We got to see lots of animals, horse races, eat fair food, and ride a carousel twice. Judah really enjoyed the carousel the second time, the first he spent hanging on very tightly. On Sunday we got to take a hay ride all over the property, including up to the cistern that provides water to the property from a natural spring. The dogs tagged along behind us, getting super muddy in the puddles by the water cistern. Ally was so tired that night. We rounded out the night with a hot dog and marshmallow campfire. The next day we had a lazy morning with breakfast and packing before we headed on down the road for home.