Christmas, Part 1

As I mentioned in my last post, our Christmas vacation was fairly hectic. During the first couple of days, we traveled to Michigan to visit Dutch Boy's parents. As evidenced by this photo out of the airplane, the Midwest has gotten a ton of snow.

I don't know what this picture tells you, except that the clouds can form in pretty cool ways:

At his parents' house, we opened presents:

We drove to "The Thumb" (otherwise known as the east-central part of the state) to visit with some of his extended family, and endured the blustery 20-30 mile/hour winds and drifting snow. I only took a couple pictures here, because that was as long as I could stand the frigid temperatures!

My in-laws' house is surrounded by farms, which means ample opportunity for fantastic cow pictures (Have I mentioned how much I love cows?),

And also some pictures of the beautiful northern outdoors:

To be continued...