Michigan

Adam, Meghan, and baby Steven are like family for us, and luckily they live just 4 hours north!  Our trip in a nutshell:

Outlet mall

Gymboree corduroy spree for the boys

Le Creuset - “Don’t touch” is spoken here!  Love their stuff, though!

A few kitchen stores…so fun.  Especially the taste test of sweet peppermint dip.

Then this beautiful sight:

Tony’s Restaurant

1 lb of bacon

Awesome fresh bread

Maybe not enough tomatoes and lettuce to balance out this BLT!  Dave was incredibly thirsty the whole day.  It is fun to have someone in our family that will take on a food challenge!! 

The picture of Harry shows how he ate all the skin off the chicken wing and left the meat – he knows the good stuff.  It gave us a good laugh!

I liked the steak sandwich – HEAVEN!

PS don’t think about the calories in a pound of bacon.

Checked out Meghan’s parent’s land – pretty sweet pond!

Even with a chill in the air, we still tried the canoe. 

It was a thrill! 

Harry was scared at first then embraced the awesomeness of the canoe.  He LOOOOOVED being in the with us! 

Broken record:  “A BOAT!”  “A WATER!”  “A DADDY!”  “A MAMA!”

Bronner’s Christmas Wonderland!!

Their motto:  "Enjoy CHRISTmas, It's HIS birthday; Enjoy Life, It's HIS way."

It was truly wonderous for Harry, and it warmed my heart.

Beautiful lights, trees, gifts, ornaments – it quickly put me in the holiday spirit.

This place makes me happy.  It’s a superstore, but it has character.

It made me so excited to make this Christmas the best ever for Harry.

Take a 360 tour

Much later on

A Tony’s closer to home

ICE CREAM FOR DINNER!!!  This banana split is simply amazing.

We did eat a wonderful chicken salsa soup later on, courtesy of Meghan, to balance out this “healthy” meal.

Next day we saw just a bit of a nature preserve -

Trails closed for the hunt!

Beautiful anyway…

Can I just say the weather was PERFECT?

Lunch was BBQ from “The Magic Kitchen”  It was mouth-watering goodness.  Those of you who don’t explore little “holes in the wall” you need to.  Thanks Adam for the suggestion!  This place is high quality, it’s just the location that made it “interesting”

That was a big nutshell.

It was just SOOOO great to get away, even if just for a couple days.