A Trip up North and Pulling the Plug

Josh goes to the state basketball tournament every year to hang out with his friends, so I usually try to take a little trip at the same time. This year I took the kids to visit my mom and grandmother. My grandmother is a shut-in so the only time we get to see her is when we go there. Here they are making cookies with Granny (p.s. I'm pretty sure my mom never made cookies with me.). We got a couple of inches of snow, so we just stayed inside for 2 days. Here's the snow on our van.
Luckily, Granny's house is stocked with much fun to be had. There's playing on the slide...
...watching movies...
...and playing dress-up with my grandparents' cowboy hat and fishing hat.

On another subject, we've "pulled the plug" on Bonnie and she has been without her pacifier for the past 2 days. She willingly threw it in the trash in exchange for a new toy (bribery is how we do things around here), but she's had a little bit of a hard time adjusting to life without her adored "patsy."