Marquette

Last weekend we were crazy people and drove 8 hours through the night, in a blizzard, with a 17 month old, to Marquette, MI. We went to visit our really good friends from when we lived in East Lansing, Dan and Kelly. Dan worked with Adam at UPS and they became our first real "couple friends" after we were engaged and married. Dan and Kelly are the type of friends that are just so easy to be around and we have such similar personalities and interests. We really miss them now that they have moved 8 hours away to Marquette!

The original plan was for only Joel and Adam to go to snowboard with Dan. Kelly really wanted Grace and I to come too so we decided to infringe on the boys weekend. They have two kids: Luke who is 3.5 and Joslyn who is just a month older than Grace. We haven't seen them since Luke was a baby!

Kelly and I were on kid duty while the boys snowboarded. Three young kids stuck indoors all day makes for some crazy mommies! We were breaking out the rum and cokes and wine at 5 o'clock every day-lol! We did take the kids to a really neat children's museum in town. There was a pretend grocery store, slides representing the digestive system, and turtles and snakes they could touch.

Grace had her first tantrum in public while we were there. That was not so cool. Everyone looking at us as I try to pick up her wet noodle body off the floor. Oh well, I have officially endured the toddler tantrum and the stares that come with it. It is a right of passage as a mom, right?