Random Photos From Our Trip

Here are some random pics from our trip. They didn't really have a category to have a title. But I liked them and wanted to share :)

We found my dad!! If you don't know the story ask me sometime. But we found him and I took some pics.



Do we notice a theme with Aunt Sissy??? It's like taking candy from a baby to try and get a photo of her!!




HA HA HA. GOT YA!!

Our Family Christmas Day

Our family Christmas day was fun but chaotic. "Uncle" Jeremy was building a shelf. Aunt Sissy was cooking a feast. And Madison was playing with Jayden and Isiah. Nana helped out where she could but Sissy INSISTED on doing it all. She claims she likes it. But I don't buy it LOL. Here are some pics from the day:

Aunt Sissy (or Grammie depending on who you are) with Jayden. Aren't they sweet??


Gee Madison posing? I am shocked!

This was a really good shot of my grandma (Pepaw, Grandma, whatever you call her :) )

The kids playing...


Hard at work. Sissy cooking. Nana Helping. Jeremy building a shelf.



And oh what a dinner we had!! Ham AND Roast Beef. Mac N Cheese, potatoes, macaroni salad, cole slaw, corn, beans, rolls, ummm probably more I am forgetting.



And of course we had PRESENTS. For the first time Judi, Jenni, and Moose had THE gift this year. Poor little Jayden wanted to play with his Piston Cup 500 set soooo bad. And mean ole daddy wouldn't let him. He's lucky "Aunt" jenni didn't set it up for him overnight :)






Look how bad he wants to play with it??? Can you resist that adorable little face??? It stayed that way the entire time they were there. Poor poor Jayden.


Poor Poor Jayden :(

Our LOOOOOOOOOOONG Trip to NC

Well our trip down was extremely long and very eventful! About 2 hours into the trip we hit ice. Not unusual in Michigan. We slowed down and decided to move along because we would pass it.

NOT.

Turns out an ice storm hit northern indiana, southern michigan and northern illinois.

By the time we got to South Bend Indiana we were on a solid sheet of ice. Driving at around 10 mph because of course we were sliding all over the place. Finally my brother decided to take an exit.

Not the best idea. We got stuck. And there we sat for 3 hours. Along with everyone else. Someone else thought they were past the problem and went up the exit sliding and hit another car. Which brought the cops. Which he slid up the road. Notice his position in the below photo? It wasn't intentional.

We almost got hit by several people, including a snow plow. Eventually we got up the exit, got some breakfast and decided to move along.

Past South Bend we couldn't get anywhere. They had all roads closed.

We gave up (me very resistantly) and got a hotel. So our 14-16 hr trip took like 2 1/2 days.

Here are a couple of pics from our being stuck.

I will say the hotel was AWESOME. It had the MOST comfortable beds I've ever been in. I'd love to go back and sleep there again. Maybe under better circumstances. LOL

Our Small Family Christmas

I have to say our small family Christmas was nice. My brother arrived and we had a big ham dinner with all the fixins. Then it was time to do gifts!

First I have to share my gift from Madison. I LOVE LOVE LOVE it. I needed it sooooo bad. I was using a broken chair that I fell out of daily. So her dad took her shopping for me, nana and uncle moose and this is what I got:

Then here are some of Madison opening gifts:





Had to get a picture of the Barbie while she STILL had clothes on. This is proof that the dolls ARE dressed when they enter my house LOL
And I took a big chance on Madison's gift. I wasn't sure what to get her and I thought she would really like a piano keyboard. But I wasn't positive. Well looks like it was a success!
Nana opening her gifts!



And of course Sophie had a present. Bear and Sebastian were elsewhere and we couldn't get them in to open gifts. But Sophie really enjoyed hers! (they each got bags of treats!)

And as always uncle Moose had to make a big production of opening gifts. Or maybe that's for the camera?? LOL. But it was funny because Madison packed his gift (a watch) in a large box and then threw a bunch of junk in the box. So he had to dig through all the trash to find his present. And in true Moose fashion there was a commentary along with the unpacking (example..he pulls out a straw...he says Are you trying to say I suck?)





And dad opening his gifts. Well sort of. One of dads still needs to be ordered. Oops. Mom will get right on that.

And I didn't take pictures of Madison murdering us at Scene It or any of that. But I did get pics of her trying out some of her other gifts:

Prepare yourself

For picture OVERLOAD. I am home. And I have pics to post from our small family christmas with my mom, brother, madison, me and Brian. Then I have a TON of pics from our trip to NC.

So prepare to be bombarded with photos.