A Sunday at The Henry Ford Museum

Sunday was a cold snow covered day after the storm that came through on Saturday, so to stretch our legs we went to the Henry Ford Museum to walk around. 

Plymouth Ice Festival 1-12-19

Whew I think this post catches us up on the blog.

Saturday night we went to the Plymouth Ice Festival in Plymouth, MI.

Moose

Ice carving chainsaw duels.  Each carver is given something to carve and 15 minutes to do it.  This is what the blocks of ice look like before they start.

Lion and the Winner of the Ice Craving Duels.

 Seahorse

 Same seahorse from a different angle.

The ice carving duel.

 Jenn looking through the snowman.

 Fish

 This was a Detroit Red Wings craving and with the base under it (you can't see it), this is a 4000 pound ice carving. 

 Giraffe. 

Ann Arbor Library Date

Last week on Saturday, the 12th we went to the Ann Arbor Public Library to sign up for Library cards.  We took some time to walk around and explore.  We checked out some movies and Jenn got some books on CD and one book.

Jenn checked this one out.

A visit to the Matthaei Botanical Gardens

Brian and I spent Sunday, January 6th at the Botanical Gardens to take in the last day of the Fairy Garden exhibit (so some reason I didn't get any pictures of the fairies that were hidden throughout.

This is the Corpse Flower.  It is a plant that only flowers once in a long time and the one here is set to bloom sometime in the next year or 2.  

Quilting Project

I am currently working on a quilting project for one of the girls at work.

Saturday Date Day

Brian had to go in and give treatments on the Friday after New Year's and we took Gus with us.

Baby hat making while Brian does treatment. 

After treatments we went to Kerrytown and Brian got to play the Kerrytown Bells for the very first time. 

Starbucks we got while we were out.

 A very tried dog when we got home. He collapsed in the walk away around the Christmas tree.

Date Night

We went out afternoon and evening while we were off the first week of January to 2nd N Charles and had dinner at Dave & Buster's to use Brian's gift certificate he got from last Christmas. 

New Year's Shenanigans

Making baby hats and playing a game of Risk.

Hersey kiss cookies!!

A deer in the back yard helping himself to some corn.

 So lazy.

Christmas Day

Christmas day we spent the day at home with monkey bread for breakfast, opening gifts, and enjoying each other and the animals.  Christmas evening we went down to Darryl and Sheena's for dinner. 

This guy was pretty tried after the festivities.

Wendy Gets a New Kitten

Meet Louie, Wendy's newest addition.  She got him the weekend before Christmas.

Straight No Chaser and the Detroit Christmas Tree

The week before Christmas we went to Detroit to see Straight No Chaser.  They are an a cappella group that does a mix of their own songs, remakes of songs, and they do Christmas music.  They are a fun group to watch.  We both highly recommend if you ever get the chance to see them do it.