Sunday, June 26, 2011

Road Trip #1 - Malone

Anissa, Sam, Aaron
Kylie, Megan, Jack
Carl
Huck

Our plan for the summer is to road trip from up and down the East Coast of the US. Drive 4000 miles covering Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Delaware and New Jersey (and DC, too)!

Road Trip #1 was up to Malone, NY for Sam's graduation from high school! Aunt Sally was kind enough to let us stay with her and we had a great time seeing Gram, Dave, Kris, Anissa, Carl, Sam, Aaron, Alex, Sarah and Bridget, as well as lots of friends from there! Dan went to the actual graduation ceremony, we got to bottle feed calves, Jack learned to ride a mini dirt bike and shift it to 3rd gear (Dan taped a piece of wood to his shoe so he could shift easier with his crocs on), the kids swam every day there thanks to Dave and Kris heating the pool, we took Gram out to lunch 2x's, we all got to attend Cooks Corners and we had a great time getting to see everyone!!!

Sam's graduation cake and many, many awards

Kris's awesome kitchen

Church at Cook's Corner's

What Daddy made out of pipe cleaners to keep the kids occupied during the service

Miss Kylie

Gram and kids out to lunch after church on Sunday

Playing Ladder Ball at the graduation party with Anissa and Alex

Dan explaining to Jack how to ride the dirt bike - once he got the hang of it, he would make a big loop around the field yelling, "Woo hoo! Yippee! Yahoo!". I think he liked it :) And, he didn't crash (although Dan was pretty sure had we stayed there another day, it would have happened...) :)

Woo hoo!!!

Kylie and Jack both had fun riding the bike around the farm. At one point, Kylie was riding through the Heffer Barn yelling "Wheeeee" while the heffers galloped along behind her!

Kris was awesome and brought out bubbles and chalk and squirt guns to keep the kids occupied...Megan and Kylie had fun coloring next to the pool.

Megan's beautiful barn drawing

Dan and the kiddos out at the calf barn!

Jack feeding a calf

Climbing up on the ginormous hay bales...it made me sick to see Jack up so high - because then he swung from the rafters and I made him get down!

Dan and Dave

Aunt Sally and Gram - sisters

Us with Gram

Jack's cool shoe for shifting the dirt bike

And tired kiddos our last night in Malone...Kylie's already asleep :)

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