Let it Snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!

So we were crazy and drove through the snow storm on Thursday night. When we left Provo around 4:00. There was not even a flurry comin down from the sky. Past the point of the Mountain, it came down hard and fast and took three hours almost to get from Provo to Roy. "Are we going to be there soon?," was said many times. We stayed the night at my Great-Grandma's house and were able to visit with my aunt and her family. We opened the window for part of the night, my grandma likes it really warm! Kacen had to have a car ride to get to sleep at 11:00 and then woke up an hour later and stayed awake wiggling and screaming until three thirty. I got in the car at 2:40 and drove him around, I went to Wal-Mart being very desperate to sleep, went there to get medicine thinking that it would do something for him. I got there and I had no way to pay, so I drove back and got a card and he was so calm at Wal-Mart, passive to say the least. He took the medicine at Wal-Mart and on the way back he fell right to sleep. I made Kacen an appointment thinking that his ear infections hadn't gone away, but nope the Doctor says that his ear infections are on the way out so who knows why he was up so late, so ornery or how much his ears were really bugging him, maybe he just REALLY doesn't like staying at someone else's house. But thank heaven the medicine worked. The kids were all so excited about Kacen's gobble and go hippo that he got from them. Abbi got a baby and Alona a part of the "my little pet shop".
We had fun at Grandma and Grandpa's too! We made Gingerbread house this year out of Graham crackers, ice cream cones and PLENTY of candy. Alona decorated most of her own and Abbi had fun putting candy on her roof. They each got an m&m container with a piece to a train on it that we got to bring home!Abbi dumped out all of her m&m's and ate the majority of them before even decorating. She was really enjoying herself. We played instruments and Kacen had a lot of fun. Abbi was a little energizer bunny. You should have seen her, it was like she is every night, but that night she had an audience! Alona had fun performing too. Then we did pizza and presents, oh how I love Papa Johns! We gave them homemade presents, framed feet and hand prints of the kids with pictures. The girls are having fun with their coloring books and Kacen's train that he got. Alona made a circle with the connecting parts of the train track.
Kacen was so darn fun opening presents at my aunts house. He was great at ripping off the paper and then would attempt to hand you the paper, but ooh..it was a trick! He wouldn't really give it to you. He would also throw some on the floor. A few pieces he would tear up and then put some pieces back on the present like he was trying to put it back on. So fun to watch. He was so afraid of the dogs, if he was so close that there was almost no way out, he would scream and cry hysterically, he really freaked out but if he was close enough to mom to get to me without the dogs, he would freak out and then come to me as fast as he could.
Abbi our little animal lover that would open her mouth and laugh as the doggies licked the inside of her mouth as a ten month old, still loves the dogs. She goes up and pats the back of them and tells them what to do. She also still loves to give them kisses, but now closes her mouth.
We went to my sisters house as our last stop and went out in the 23 degree weather to go on a hayride in the Layton Park. Alona loved to watch the lights and see all the things that they had, a mermaid, an elephant, a bear climbing a tree a choo-choo train that little Abbi couldn't see and so many other things. We had fun though we were all so cold. The kids got Five Little Monkeys jumping on the Bed from aunt Crystal and her kids. Alona wanted to stay at their house and play the game with her kids. It was our last stop, so it was too late to stay and play, it looks like such a cute game.
Kacen says"WOO-WOO! and sings to that tune. He also says cracker and Nuh-Nuh for Alona and more words, but I can't think right now.