The Mountain House!!

THIS.... is the Mountain House! My great grandpa built it over 50 years ago. He used to tend his cows and sheep - WE have been enjoying it ever since! One of my favorite places to go is our Mountain House! It's up on Cedar Mountain - I don't make it up there as often as I would like to, but this past Sunday IT WAS A MUST! I needed a day of rest and relaxation - a day to just hang with my kids and enjoy them. I had a million things I needed to do, but I put them aside and woke up at 6 am to spend the day!!
Shooting a little skeet (how do you spell that?!) You know I'd be lying if I said I shot my 5 skeet right - nope, not even ONE!!

It's hard to see - but, here's Bo and Bri on the "swing." A rope with a piece of wood at the end for a seat tied to a tall tree - we love it!!
Bri and Helen in the "tree house" - not very fancy... Everything at the Mountain House is simple - that's what makes it SO great!
You know I love my Bells!!
Right off the "main road" is this pipe - we swam here when I was a kid - now my kids swim here! The pipe makes for a great place to JUMP!!
Nobody cuter...
Bri's 4 wheeling buddy is her PAPA!! She likes to go with him - although she tagged along with my and Bo as well! We borrowed Gordon's "wheeler" and put it in the back of the truck - I liked having the weight because I didn't fish tail so bad on the dirt road!!
"Minnie and Vinnie...." This a little headstone of a set of twins who died in 1812 (I think). Our family thinks they were pioneers living up on the mountain. We used to walk up here, now everyone has 4 wheelers - we just drive up!!
This is all that's left of their house (the same pioneer family) we think! Fun to see how small - you can still see the outline of rocks - smaller then our smallest room and it was their WHOLE house!!
The inside of the mountain house - SO many fun memories around this table!!
No one else I'd rather be with - except Mikey of course!! It was strange to be up there without him - 11 years of having him around sure makes me miss him!!
The whole group (except my dad who's taking the picture!) Three of my cousins were there as well - the more the merrier!
More memories - we stop at this pipe every time we go up to fill our water bottles! YUMMY~!
Look how gorgeous - this is the view straight up from the mountain house. Bodie practicing his aim with his BB gun! He loves his gun! By the end of the day he'd shot a gun to death!!
Just what I needed!! :)