Christmas Road Trip - Part 1

After Christmas Day with David's family and the next day with my family we were just getting started. It feels like we crammed two months worth of fun into five days and it was AWESOME!

Our road trip to Argyle began on Monday morning - we tried to get out the door by 8 but actually pulled out of the driveway 40 minutes after that, not too bad! We arrived at Great-Grandpa Holmes' house at 12:15, only FIFTEEN MINUTES behind schedule! Wow! Of course the kids went straight to the basket of toys to play. We had a wonderful afternoon with Grandpa and everyone else that showed up to visit. How kind of our family to make the effort to come over when we were visiting on a work day when they had so many other things to do. It was great, so much laughing and story sharing and catching up. Eventually Archer and Shelly had to go outside to the swings which presented a bit of a problem. Did we bring snow pants? Nope. Did I notice the huge hole in Archer's jeans before we left the house? Nope. At least we had boots with us... They ventured out, Archer with a scarf tied around his knee to cover the hole in his jeans, and lasted longer than I expected. Aunt Patti follwed them out for pictures but David took pics from the window, we didn't feel like braving the snow.

We left Grandpa's house around 7:00 with the intention of going to Prairie du Chien but only made it as far as Platteville, it had been a long day and we checked into a hotel and got to sleep as quick as we could.