Ann Arbor

Snow is the best thing in the world!

We spent the last part of our vacation visiting with friends in Ann Arbor. I know: we were only gone for 8 days, including travel. There was a lot of driving involved on this "vacation". Anyway.

Ann Arbor was great! I haven't been there in years (my Dad went to school at Michigan for like 8 years, so we visited occasionally when I was growing up), and Tim and the girls had never been. Our friends Kevin and Tabitha, whom we know from Pope, and their daughter Natalie, are now living in Ann Arbor, so we had to stop by while in the area.

Kevin and mini-me, baby Natalie.

While there, Kate mastered going up and down stairs (I know most other kids probably master this by age 1, but we have no stairs), Claire said her first word ("puppy", of which our friends have 2), Kate went sledding for the first time, and we enjoyed lots of time over gourmet meals and wine with some of our best friends.

Tim got to talk "air force" with Kevin, and I got to trade memories and laughs with Tabitha, while the girls played together with all of Natalie's toys. Kate loved the snow, and thought sledding was the best thing ever, until she learned how to make snow angels. She didn't even complain when snow worked its way up her sleeves and down her neck. Natalie was a little dismayed with the snow and our insistence on playing in it. I think she's seen it before.

Kate could not get baby Natalie's name right: Analie, Emily, Ettilie, Atalie, Amily, etc. Natalie was pretty easy-going about the whole thing, though, and still let Kate pull her on the sled.

Y'all, this is sort of boring.

C'mon, baby Analie!

Snow angel.