My sister and I had planned to visit my mom this week ~ we had planned to leave Monday morning. That is until I got a phone call at four o'clock Sunday afternoon from my mother informing us that terrible winter weather was coming there way and we wouldn't be able to come in the morning. Disappointment was really setting in, until I had a very crazy idea. Two hours later Georgia and I had our children, our suitcases, and the dog packed and ready to roll. We didn't pull into my mom's driveway until 10:30 that night, and I discovered the next morning I had only packed Beaux one shirt to wear for the entire week- but it was totally worth it. We beat the winter weather by about 12 hours and were iced in with Nana, Papa, Georgia, Gracie Rae, Jessica, and John for two days of serious fun.
This was Eli at about 11:15 Sunday night- too tired to pull the covers back on his bed.
We spent the majority of the time in our pj's, playing, starring out the window in awe at the beauty of everything white and frozen, and watching Eli and Beaux swim in the next best thing to a pool, Nana's enormous whirlpool bathtub. Even in my 35 week pregnant body,I enjoyed hours of standing in front of a crackling fire place. However, my sister, in her 32 week pregnant body, walked around the house in shorts and a T-shirt and complained about the fire, it was hilarious. Wednsday was my Dad's 54th birthday and because of the wintry roads, we decided to celebrate at home with Taco Salad, homemade Blueberry Pie and Chocolate Cake. Jessica and I had a bake off. She made the pie and I made the cake, but when blueberry pie and chocolate cake are the competitors, can there really be a looser?
Betty Crocker and Dad's favorite dessert- Blueberry Pie.
Thursday evening we took Dad out for his birthday dinner to a little whole-in-the wall steak diner. The meal was fabulous, and the entertainment unforgettable. The restaurant was almost empty, with a little dance floor, and an elderly gentleman channeling Frank Sinatra and preforming his lounge act for our party. The children loved hearing him sing, and Eli told me he had such a great time, "Dancing the night away." We traveled hundreds of miles this week, ate tons of M&M's in the car to help pass the trip, spent many hours snuggled on the couch watching Disney classics and reading books, celebrated 54 years of my incredible father's life, and enjoyed millions of great moments together.
"Everything just looks gorgeous."- Eli Barnes
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