Snowbound

This morning we woke Anna early for an adventure. We got her up at about 5:40, changed her diaper, fed her, bundled her up in the car, drove around for about 45 minutes, brought her back home, and put her back to bed. It was exciting!

A BIG storm has hit southwest Michigan early this morning. Our plan was to drive to St. Louis today to visit my family. We had hoped to leave before the storm hit and it seemed likely as it did not look too bad when we looked out the window. I don't think it was even snowing. On the highway, however, the conditions were very different. The blowing snow and near white out conditions made it difficult for us to even turn around to go back home. Anna was confused but handled it all very well. She even went back to sleep when we got back home.

We'll be trying again tomorrow! The winter weather watch ends tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. so we hope we can leave by lunchtime.

We decided to take advantage of the extra day at home to have a little family Christmas.

One of Anna's favorite Christmas gifts was an egg shaker she found in her stocking.