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Last days of the trip

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We were all so excited for this Christmas vacation/trip. BUT we were most excited to meet the newest member or our clan. Baby Elara is so sweet and perfect. We all fell in love with this little miss.

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We played lots of games. Ate lots of delish food. And visited with lots of family. Great Grandpa even came over for a spell.
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Josh and Emily were with us briefly before heading farther up north to visit more family.
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This is the only photo I have where at least two are looking. Haha. I am just happy we finally have a picture of Great Grandpa and Regan.
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Saturday night these four put on a laser show/dance for us. They were so funny/cute dancing to Grandma got run over by a reindeer.
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It was such a nice Christmas vacation!

Snow day

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Day three was a relaxing day spending time with the cousins at Grandma’s house. Day four was SNOW DAY!  All the kiddos were excited to head up to Cedar and play in the snow.
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Kaylee remembers snow. Regan does not. He foolishly dove into the snow before we finished gearing him up. He quickly learned that one NEEDS gloves for making snow balls.
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Kaylee was most excited to make snow angels.
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We tool the kids to the smaller slopes so they could climb up themselves. It’s a work out hauling kids up snowing slopes. Them crawling up most of the time help a ton!
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Shannon and Dwayne tried racing, but Shannon totally biffed it. It was very funny.
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Shannon helping her Daddy-O down the hill with a swift kick to the tukkis. You can see my dying with laughter in the background! Too Funny!
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And this is how our adventure ended. Kaylee got mowed over (by that I mean she got bumped into. not hard.) twice in a row, and her (loose) gloves popped off. After that she was DONE. “My hands are freezing, and I’m NEVER going to see them again!”
Not dramatic at all that one.
Regan looked the same because he was NOT done. We didn’t get a photo of his sad face though.
I must say visiting the snow is SO much nicer than living in it!

Day two. Visiting St. George.

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Wednesday afternoon we headed up to visit my side. The children had so much fun with Great Grandma Joanie. They got rides, colored, and just had fun with her. I heard some family stories that were new to me which was exciting. I love my Grandma and it’s always nice to visit with her.
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Jon has for years wanted to switch out my Dad’s old HEAVY t.v. with the nicer one from upstairs. So that’s what he and Barry did. It was funny to watch and looks so much nice now.
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Aunt Linda, and Jadzia (and briefly Uncle Jamie) came over to play games and visit. Poor Cassie Joan was sick so we didn’t get to see her this visit.

Kaylee got into my Mom’s essential oils and burned her face a bit thus the redness. So sad. And Regan “helped” Uncle Barry make friendly brownies and got covered in cocoa powder.

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Papa and his shirt. I for some reason don’t have one of my Mom with hers….

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I had Barry this year for the gift exchange. I made him a t-shirt, and a Teach the Children story kit for his future family.

So that was day two of our Christmas vacation.