so we planned to spend the afternoon and evening the saturday after christmas with my dad and stepmom shelly out in grand haven but the weather had other plans for us. i'm used to michigan blizzards and white-out road conditions having driven through the snowbelt to come home from college every thanksgiving and christmas since 95. the day after christmas tim, declan and i actually got dressed up nice to celebrate and do christmas with grandpa and mimi since we lived in loungewear most of our visit to gr (!). we loaded up our car with presents and buckled up for the 45 minute drive over to gh. halfway through our pleasant road trip we started to see lots of brake lights up ahead on the highway and car after car in the ditch! hmmm, tim took it down to 25 mph and noticed the road suddenly turned to pure ice. we proceeded cautiously for another mile until we witnessed the car in front slide into the median. we pulled off the next exit and had a pit stop at mcdonalds to decide what to do. declan got a vanilla sundae and entertained the coopersville crowd goofing around in his holiday cords and peacoat. sadly it was too dangerous and we knew we'd be driving back in the dark so we turned around and headed slowly back to gr. we just
hated to miss that day, but it was the safe thing to do.
at mcd's, looking out at all the snow and trucks
we were so happy that my dad and shelly could come visit us in indy one saturday in january to celebrate. we also got a sitter and and enjoyed a lovely dinner out at
petite chou, a darling little local french place. my dad is still talking about it so i know they liked it too!
opening one of his super cool new toys, most of them were the beloved melissa & doug! plus lots of cute new clothes and pjs.
took a quick photo break from playing basketball, which is the current
obsession!
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