Michigan Trip

On December 1st we headed off to Michigan to visit with Aaron's family. (Keep in mind this post is out of order because I didn't have Aaron's computer which had the pictures from this trip...now the computer is home from the doctor and working great!) What we had planned for it to be a very long straight through drive to upper Michigan but it turned out to be way more! We knew that on the way up we needed to stop in Campbell and get a tag for our car. So once we got there they informed us that since we had not closed on our house and since Aaron had not signed in off leave we could not get a TN tag. Big problem!!! After talking with a few different people they let us have a temp tag for $10 to hold us over until we closed and Aaron signed in off leave. So after eating lunch and spending about two hours in Campbell we headed towards Michigan. Driving all the way to upper Michigan should be about a 16 hr drive from my mom's. Why we even thought of driving that in one day when we didn't HAVE to I have yet to figure out but we did. We had only been on the road for a few hours when we decided to go our normal route. Driving to Aaron's sister's house in lower Michigan, staying the night, and then heading the rest of the way. Well we get to Indianapolis which is always our nemeses and we get lost. We drove around there for almost two hours. Needless to say when we got off the road 13 hours after we started driving...we were exhausted. The boys however were so excited to see their cousins.

Logan and Haylee who are only 4 months apart stayed up all night playing. We THOUGHT they went to sleep but once everyone else closed their eyes those little stinkers were up. They managed to keep their little eyes open til 11AM the next day and then took a very long nap. We stayed at Amy's for two night before getting back on the road and heading north.

The next drive was only about 6 more hours. Since we had left super early in the morning and the boys and I slept almost the whole way it seemed to fly by for us! It was so nice to see everyone. Everyone ended up staying at Art's house (Aaron's older brother) so it was good to see all the brothers and sisters together. Aaron has 5 siblings so getting everyone together is pretty hard. So having 5 of the 6 together and Aaron's dad was really nice. All the kids played so well together. I don't think I even saw Logan for more than 10 minutes a day while we were there. He was off playing and having a wonderful time. Aaron wasn't too happy about this picture but it's too cute. Amber dressed Lane up. He was walking around all smiles. We got to meet two little nephews...Liam and Brody who are completely adorable. It was such a nice visit.

Here's the group shot...

And the grandkids...

We had to head out a little early because we got word that we had to close on our house on the 11th. So we headed down to Amy's for a few more days. We got to see all of Aaron's mom's sisters (except Aunt Diane but she doesn't live in Michigan...she lives closer to where we are now) and one of his cousins. They are all the sweetest ladies ever.

Here is Lane...yes he is in the doll stroller...along with Haylee and Brianna

The snow kept trying to find us during this whole trip. The day we drove out was when a pretty big storm was hitting. The roads home were not really icy but the wind was horrible though. It felt like it was going to blow us off the road. Well we finally made it back to Campbell and had all our plans set for closing the next day. We got a hotel room there and my mom and grandmother drove up the next day to get the boys. After doing our walk through the morning of the 11th we find out the closing was canceled. We were so upset. It was such a headache because it was all due to things out of our hands. First it was the fireplace. The appraiser had waited and waited about turning in the appraisal so the VA didn't know we had a propane fireplace. Guess this is a big deal to the VA. So the builders pulled through and fixed that problem. Then it was because names were different on the VA builder code. This was something that should have been taken care of months ago but once again...a problem we couldn't do anything about. So there we were still waiting...and homeless!!! So that night we drove back to my mom's to wait for them to finally call us. Thankfully everything got cleared up quickly and we closed a few days later.