Thursday December 29 and Friday December 30

On Thursday we drove to Aurora to visit my step-grandmother, Florence.  It was a nice visit.  James left early, with my parents car, as his boss had passed away and he was going to the wake, which was just around the corner from Florence's condo.

I drove part-way home, and by part-way, I mean a few hundred meters to the nearest Winners where my mom and I left my dad and kids in the van while we ran in to look.

I made my dad drive home from there.  Frankly, he was being annoying about my driving.

It was just as well, as the roads had gotten pretty bad.

We made it home and then dad got the van stuck in the ditch on the way up their drive-way.

Drew and I played outside while we waited for James to come home to help get the van out of the drive-way.

I took this pic on our walk down to the van at the end of the night.  They were able to pull it out of the ditch, but weren't able to get it up to the top.

After all of the driving trouble, we decided to stay put the next day.  We played in the snow, played games, and had a great day.

Drew asked me to go get the camera to take a picture of his tunnel.  While I was in getting the camera, Hunter started freaking out.

I get him inside and he has snow all down his back.......mean big brother had thrown snow at him.  Poor little one.

It was quickly forgiven though....

We also took the decorations off of the tree......so sad.