Happy Valentine's Day!

I hope you all had a nice Day O' Love! We enjoyed a quiet night at home together — the best way to celebrate.

Plymouth Ice Festival, 2012

This past week real winter arrived in Michigan.

Oh Baby, Baby, It's a White World

It seems that winter has finally arrived! After a couple weeks of unseasonably warm weather (highs in the 40's and we even got to 50 one day), the snow and cold have returned. I was beginning to be a bit disappointed with winter. Where were the crazy piles of snow everyone was talking about? The horrible cold? The winter fun of snow shoeing and cross country skiing?

Well, for the past few days I got my wish: snow and snow and cold.

And We're Back!

It's been an exciting few weeks full of drama, holiday celebrations, guests, and snow! I have a lot of catching up to do so I will start at the beginning and with the snow, because weather is the most exciting!

First, notice that I've switched the blog back to the old template. Sorry for everyone who liked the other one, but it was giving me a lot of trouble and didn't allow me to post my own banner (I have a new banner!). I'm attempting to bring some of the nicer features into this layout (like the larger images and cleaner text), so we'll see how it goes.

Ok, the beginning. Exhibit A: