Where's the road?

There's a road somewhere here. It's been a cold and very snowy winter in Michigan. I'm ready for spring!

Winter Sunset...

The sunset as seen from our upstairs window. Beautiful!

Riaan's Lego Land Rover...

Riaan built this amazing little Lego Land Rover Defender pickup truck, using just a Matchbox car to guide him. As I've said many times before, I am blown away by his creativity, imagination, and attention to the small details. It's so cool!

Side-by-side with the Matchbox Land Rover.

He even put a spare wheel in the back.

Such a cool little Lego build. :)

Movie Night...

A cold winter's night is the perfect excuse for a movie night. :)

Winter Puzzle Fun...

Cold weather is the perfect excuse to work on a family puzzle together. We've done two in recent weeks. The children were particularly pleased with the "Chips" puzzle, while I liked the map of the world. :)

I love the old "parchment" look to this map.

Indiana Christmas Trip...

We travelled down to Indiana on Christmas Day to spend some time with Candace's family there. We had a great weekend seeing family and friends - although I wasn't feeling too well and therefore didn't take too many photos on this trip. But we all enjoyed making memories in the Southern Indiana landscape - and warm winter weather! :)

We went caroling to the Amish neighbours on the back of Candace's dad's tractor. :)

Opening stockings on the Saturday.

Candace and her siblings received a special present from Mike and Lavone.

Riaan tries out his new bow and arrow set.

Candace and I enjoyed a lovely walk.

Bundled up nicely for the drive back to Michigan.

Christmas Celebrations...

We celebrated Christmas this year with many events leading up to the day itself. We attended (what has become a tradition for us) the Detroit Lutheran Singer's Christmas concert series (pictured here), which was lovely, and did many fun activities with the children, like decorating gingerbread cookies.

Christmas Eve started with a beautiful sunrise, and we enjoyed our traditional Christmas Eve dinner, although this year we ate it at lunchtime. On Christmas Day we drove down to Indiana to celebrate with Candace's family. :)

Riaan's gingerbread cookie house.

Anya's colourful house.

Eliza had so much fun!

Colourful Christmas Eve sunrise.

Family selfie on Christmas Eve.

A delicious Christmas Eve dinner. Yum!