a time of many firsts

Over the past 6 days, I have experienced a few firsts:

• visiting the states of Iowa and Nebraska (if only to drive through)
  
• getting to meet new children of good friends
  
• driving down Provo Canyon at sunset (very pretty)
  
• watching inches and inches of fat snowflakes fall from inside a warm house instead of from inside our minivan (so glad we got here just 12 hours before it started)
  
• over the past 24 hours- cleaned up the sick from all three of my kids (sorry to grandma and grandpa for making a mess of their house and thank you for helping clean it up- it wouldn't be a vacation without someone getting sick, I guess)
  

Merry Christmas Eve