Phew! (part 2 - Malone)

Wednesday June 17th - spent the day in the car driving to Malone, New York!!! All day driving (12 hours) but it went really well and we had fun stopping at Cracker Barrel and Arby's (yum).

Thursday June 18th – Got to go out to the Calf Barn with Carl and Sam. Kids bottle fed some calves and we had fun looking around and playing with kittens. So fun to be back and see them not so scared anymore…Lunch with Gram and a long, long nap for everyone (4 hours for the whole family – much needed!)



Friday June 19th – Lunch out with Gram for her birthday and pizza from La Pizza! We used to order from La Pizza when we lived here and had a kid from our youth group who worked there. He said that anytime we would order and leave our last name, all the kids working there would giggle and laugh uncontrollably that that is our last name. Nice. :) Strawberry Shortcake for dessert (Gram’s choice every year for her birthday)!


Saturday June 20th – Megan and I went out for a date to The Almanzo Wilder Homestead! If you have ever read “Farmer Boy” by Laura Ingalls Wilder (2nd in the Little House on the Prairie series), it takes place about 5 miles north of Malone and where Megan was born! Megan started the book on Wednesday and we had such a great time there! We got our own tour by a girl in Sam’s grade at FA, which was great – Megan knew a lot about Almanzo just by reading the first half of the book and it was amazing to see it all and know that he lived right near Malone, went to the Franklin County Fair and had family that went to Franklin Academy (which is also where Dan’s Dad graduated from high school)! Loved it and will go back again (and bring Dan)! Then we stopped at Hostler’s for a special lunch out – she has been wanting to go out just the two of us for months – and we finally got to do it! The boys dropped Kylie off at Kris’s, where she helped them pick weeds, while they headed out to help move cows (which Kylie called the Rodeo). Then spent the night hanging out with Dave, Kris, Gram and the kids. I love that their kids are great, nice kids who were so great with our kids. To say that our kids adore Anissa, Carl, Sam and Aaron would be putting it mildly. :) Kylie and Gram went on a walk to the Calf Barn and 2 barn kittens followed them home. Megan and Jack kind of adopted one of them (Stripey) for the rest of the night. Snuggled it, cuddled it, carried it everywhere. We’ll see if it ever wants to leave Dave and Kris’s house now…sorry about that guys!











Sunday June 21st – Drove to the beach house via Long Lake! Stopped for lunch, a trip to Hoss’s and went to Dan’s Dad’s headstone. Fun to have the kids pick flowers (clover) and leave them there for him. So sweet.