On Christmas eve, we stopped in Lynchburg at Rachel and John's so that we wouldn't have to be on the road or in a motel over Christmas day. We left there in an unplanned rush Christmas night when we found out a terrible snow storm was coming through much of our travel route to New York. It was supposed to hit Pennsylvania by early afternoon and we really needed to be ahead of it. So we left around 10:00 at night Christmas night and drove through the night till almost 4:00 the next morning. We stopped at a motel in Pennsylvania for a few hours of sleep before getting the rest of the way to Johnstown, New York. It started snowing there that night and snowed and snowed. Kaelyn was so excited. We were at Wal-mart
grabbing a few necessities when it started to snow and as we walked out to the car, she had her head turned all the way up to the sky and she said, "WooHoo! It's real snow!" (In Florida around Christmas time, "snow" is usually soap bubble snow made for poor deprived kids who have no real snow. Thus the excitement over actual snow falling from the sky.) Kevin had just bought a snow brush for the car when we were in Wal-mart and he got to try it out right away. So as Kay stood there catching snow flakes and dancing around, Kevin brushed snow off the car. He was not nearly as enthusiastic about the snow as Kaelyn was. :-)
Kaelyn and Wyatt looking for special ornaments on the Christmas tree.
Time for presents!!! :-)
Talking Tom and Ben pals.
These characters started out as apps for smart phones/tablets. Kaelyn loves playing with the apps because Talking Tom and Talking Ben repeat what you say but in funny voices. She was quite thrilled when she found out that they had made them into plush toys, or pals as she calls them.
The pictures directly above and below are from when I opened my main present from Kevin. He COMPLETELY took me by surprise this year! It was a good-sized box but when I opened it, lying on top of a bunch of random "filler" items, was an envelope. Inside the envelope was tickets for the opening night of a Broadway performance of Mary Poppins down in West Palm Beach. I didn't even know the show was coming anywhere near us. I was so shocked and excited.
On a side note, this Tuesday night is the big night. We are going to have dinner and then go to the show. I am so excited!!!
More expressive moments :-)
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!
:-)
As I already mentioned, Kaelyn was thrilled with the snow. New York didn't have much snow the week that we were there last Christmas so she was really hoping that it wouldn't be like that again. She didn't need to worry about that. There was an abundance of white stuff while we were there. Unfortunately, it was bitterly cold most of the time so it wasn't real pleasant to be out in and play in for the most part like it is sometimes.
She talked us into building a snowman when we first got to Kevin's parents' house the next morning. We weren't really dressed warmly enough to be out in the cold for a long time or to actually get down in the snow too much so we just built a baby snowman. She seemed plenty happy with a little one and we were happy we didn't have to get totally soaked and miserably cold being outside in the snow for hours.
Kevin's niece, Larissa, making one of the balls for the snowman.
He's starting to come together. :-)
He gets a mouth first...
...then some eyes and a nose.
A happy little girl with her little, baby snowman. :-)
Larissa and Kaelyn
Kay and I
The three --- uh, four of us. :-)
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