Grandma and Grandpa's Visit

My Mom and Dad came to visit at the end of January. This was the first time my Dad has been able to come out to Michigan to see us. There was a lot of snow on the ground. I think it got down to -11 and never above freezing while they were here...Welcome to a Michigan Winter. But we made the best of all the snow!

CranHill Ranch

We got to play in the snow quite a bit. On Saturday we went to CranHill Ranch. They had pony rides, 3 different sledding hills, snow shoeing, cross country skiing, wagon rides, ice rock wall you could climb and a hotdog and chili dinner. The best part was it was all FREE! It was a lot of fun. It was fun seeing Grams and Gramps take over the sledding hills.
























































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Merry Christmas!!

We had a wonderful Christmas this year. Unfortunately it started a little earlier in the day than Aric and I would have liked. Landen woke up at 3am and wanted to go see if Santa had come yet. I sent him back to bed for a few hours. He came back in at 7am ready to go open presents. He crawled into bed with us and about every half hour asked if we could get up. So we finally gave in about 8:15, woke up Peyton and went downstairs. Needless to say we all took naps later that day.

As you will tell from the next few photos, Peyton has really started to love all the "princess" and dress up stuff. So guess what most of her presents were this year?!

Branch Christmas Party December 19, 2008

Playing with our friends in the snow. Dawson, Landen, Whitney, Brooke, Peyton and Charlotte.

HELLO....Winter!!

So it started snowing Monday night and hasn't stopped as of 5pm Tuesday night. According to the weatherman it isn't supposed to stop until midnight. And I am pretty sure winter doesn't officially start until December 20th. Of course, school was cancelled today so we headed out to go sledding. However the snow was too deep and powdery to actual sled. So we just played outside with our friends.













Isn't she the cutest?!




Peyton could hardly walk. The snow was almost as deep as she is tall.






Landen is standing is this picture.





Landen on his sled with his friend Keaton.














Peyton with our neighbor Brooke.


Our car is under there somewhere.











Dinner on the grill anyone?





This is the picnic
table
outside our
apartment.







This is what Kylee does while the rest of us are out in the snow. And yes that is a bottle she is drinking!!! She finally started taking a bottle last week. And of course it is the expensive kind with expensive accessories. Thanks for the bottle advice...Playtex drop-ins worked great!