Michiganders for a Week

The five of us recently spent five wonderful days basking in the love of Tom's Michigan family. Tom's folks hadn't even met our sweet Madilyn yet and hadn't seen Landen since he was almost 2-years-old, so we were thankful for the opportunity for everyone to get to know each other. It was SO nice to get to spend so much time with them as well as Tom's sister, Karen, who flew in from northern California. She is such an incredibly sweet woman. Here are some of the people and activitites we enjoyed...


We had lunch at the pier, overlooking Lake St. Clair.

Daddy brought home huge snowballs courtesy of a Zamboni. He and the kids had a snowball fight in the sprawling backyard.

Me, Tom's brother Paul, Pops, Tom's sister Karen and my sweet Tommy

We had family pictures taken at a beautiful park. Here are the grandkids...

We even got to wear jackets one day!

Ma and Pops

Tom's brother Roy, wife Dawn, sister Peggy and husband Vern.

Pops has been attending physical therapy for months with the goal in mind of being able to dance with his daughter-in-law at the wedding. Isn't that SO sweet?!

Other favorite activities included shopping with Peggy (I found TWO pairs of cute, cheap shoes and TWO dirt cheap super-cute sunglasses), learning about beading from Mom, spending the day at Memorial Park with the fam and Tom's friend, John's family and attending the lovely wedding of Tom's cousin, Michelle.