Merry Cleveland Christmas 2011!

This year for Christmas we went to Grandpa and Grandma Storm's house in Ohio. It was a 12 hour drive without any problems! We surprised them a day early, they had no idea. We had a great time, all of my siblings were there except Billy and Mike, we missed them! All 17 grandkids were there and it was fun to watch them play. Mack and Heidi kept everyone entertained, they kept telling each other "you be nice!" and at one point had a very funny yelling match in the car. There were no major incidences and amazingly nobody got sick! We ate WAY too much yummy food, my sisters and mom and I had a fun trip to a spa for pedicures, did some great shopping and great visiting. Scott is the Spanish Branch President so we all went to their Christmas Party which was so fun and then Tom, Katie and I got to speak in Sacrament Mtg on Christmas Day. Yes I had to speak in Spanish but it went fairly well after 6 years. Katie had a translater. The weather was spring like which made traveling and getting out so easy. The kids loved playing in the pool, with the claw machine, the wii, making cotton candy with grandpa, going to the rainforest and doing other fun things. One of the funniest things that Mack said one morning was this...As my dad was leaving for work he said to Mack "Be a good boy for your mommy!" Well Mack followed him to the front door and said back to him "You be a good boy for Grandma!" We all had a good laugh. He and Molly had so much fun that when we pulled into our house at midnight after leaving my parents he woke up and realized we were home and cried out "Go to Grandma's house!" It was so sad. Here are a TON of pictures from our week and a half trip. Enjoy!

Molly loved her own size chair.

Dad and Mack having their water gun fight, Mack won!

The Claw! Mack was and is obsessed and he is really good at it! James and Heidi were looking on.

Sneaking around in his cousins dress up shoes.

Mack and Molly loved trying on glasses at grandma's work. Mack said to her " I look like grandma!" He was so excited!

Everyone loved how cute they looked and said Molly looked like a librarian.

The kids loved playing the piano with Aunt Katie, especially the song "Once there was a Snowman." She is such a great Aunt, they just adore her!

Molly loved sitting with her Great Great Aunt Elizabeth.

The Girl cousins, Grace, Emma, Maggie and Molly.

We had Breakfast with Santa, it was so much fun and Molly didn't even cry when she sat on his lap!

We weren't sure how Mack would do but he did great too!

It was such a fun time for us and the kids at Bain Park Cabin.

After the breakfast we went with Grandpa to the Rain Forest, it is always fun to go to the zoo with him, Mack had a ball.

He was even daring enough to touch a snake!

Molly and Emma are the cutest little cousins! They are 9 months apart and are so much alike. They had so much fun playing together, we are sad that they live so far away.

Grace and Maggie took great care of the little ones in the pool, they loved it!

Mack got really daring and started jumping in to Aunt Katie, he and Emma had fun jumping at the same time!

Mack and Grandpa had fun making a hose and spraying people.

Christmas Eve Chocolate Fountain! The kids loved it, Mack's favorite were the marshmallows.

Molly loved her little rocking chairs and we would often find her like this, we say rockabye and she rocks and smiles, she is so sweet.