Greenfield Village in Winter

Last weekend we went on the snowiest day so far this winter to Greenfield Village. The Village is decorated for Christmas and the Henry Ford Museum has a giant Christmas tree and model trains with gingerbread houses. We wanted to see these things and didn't have anything going on last Saturday. We bundled up and braved the snow to see what we could. There were very few people at the Village, but that allowed us to listen to the docents without a lot of people around. We enjoyed ourselves a lot and even had quite a conversation about cows and sheep with the two farmers at the barn.

The last picture in the slide show (of Brian holding his hands up with one measley light lit up) is my favorite. Just before I snapped the picture, he had all the lights lit up, but the picture was just a bit too slow! I think it's funny that he is so excited, but you only see one light lit up. :)

Thanksgiving 2008

School is finally done for the semester, so I can focus on other things (like this blog!). We've done a few interesting things since the last time I posted, so I'm going to work on catching up.

We spent the Thanksgiving weekend in Grand Rapids so that we could spend time with our families. On Thanksgiving we had lunch with Brian's family and dinner with the Branderhorst (my mom's side) family. Friday we spent the day shopping (!!) for our camera and a few other things. Saturday I worked on homework while Brian attempted to fix the car (which didn't end up working) and had the Ponstein Christmas party in the evening. After the party, I went to visit with my girl friends since one was home from China after two years. Sunday we had lunch with my family and then came back to Belleville.

We had a great time while we were home, but were glad to come back to our apartment. When we got back, we set up our tree and Christmas decorations over the next few days. I'll have pictures of those sometime soon. For now, enjoy some pictures from our new camera of the Ponstein Christmas party.

Ashleigh, Erika, Keirah, Sarah, & Aleah (all under 3!)

Playing the piano with Josh

Grandma Ponstein checking out the present

Grandpa Ponstein opening the digital photo frame

Keirah and mom, Jenny

Sarah and Aunt Renee

Zach, Croix, and mom, MariJo

Erika and Aleah

Ashleigh, Joe, and Darle

Jesus Birds

Today we saw a miracle...or maybe the pond was just frozen over...when we saw bunches of Canadian geese walking on the water in our pond. It was quite humorous to watch them attempt to walk and take-off because they were just sliding around. And now there are nice white/black piles all over the ice...yuck!

Movie Costumes at the Henry Ford

Saturday we went to Greenfield Village/Henry Ford Museum again because they had their annual Member sale at their stores and there were a few things I wanted to purchase for Christmas. While we were there, we decided to check out the Hollywood movie costume exhibit that they have their for a few months. The pictures aren't the greatest because of the lights and barriers, but you can still tell what they're supposed to be. It turned out that we weren't supposed to take pictures at all, but I totally missed the signs when we walked in. :) Enjoy!

This is Robin. It was definitely the cheapest costume we saw. It's a plain green t-shirt and a thin red vest tied with shoelaces.

Here is Batman. The headpiece didn't look very comfortable at all!

The Batmobile!

The door of the Ghostbusters car. Whenever you stepped too close to the car, it said, "Please step away from the vehicle!"

More of the Ghostbusters car.

Imperial Army costumes from the old Star Wars.

The headpiece and sword. I'm not sure how they could see out of the headpieces.

Light saber!

Luke Skywalker's jumpsuit.

Darth Vader! The buttons and things on his chest are only painted on. Nothing fancy. He was tall though!

Obi-Wan Kenobi's cloak.