Mountain Weekend

 It was a lovely weekend with Dan and Laurie. Their weather was a nice break from our super humid, hot weather. Here's a couple highlights...

Anna gathered flowers on a walk.

Aliza ate ice cream while sitting on the counter and talking to Laurie. It's a tradition.

There were lots of table games and yard games. Isaiah was particularly lucky at this dice game. His laugh made us all laugh.

We spent two afternoon at the stream. Other activity options were presented, but everyone wanted to be at the stream. Most memorable moment this time was that on the first afternoon there was a racoon walking on the other side of the stream. It was clearly not well and Dan and Josiah made sure that it went in to the woods. When we came back the next afternoon there was a racoon floating in the stream. 

Ultimately that led to the funeral procession seen below. The racoon was at a steep place where it would just be stuck and create drama for us. So Dan connected his kayak to Jeremy's. Dan kept the racoon in the net and Jeremy kayaked them to a shallow place downstream. Isaiah was swimming behind and Josiah was in the kayak beside them.

The girls followed on the bank and then everyone picked up stones to cover the racoon.

Aliza and Dan stayed in that part of the stream and collected a whole bucket of crawdads.

This time I even felt like I relaxed and could just enjoy "being". It's pretty fun to have children that are growing up...until the next time that I feel a little sad about it.