christmas eve we spent the day with just our kids at home. they opened a few presents from us and also a tricycle and a wagon, thanks grandma and grandpa davis! dahlia loves them! then on christmas day we went to my sisters house about ten minutes away. opened some presents, ate some good food, played half of a game together and then went home. the day after christmas we were going to drive up to olympia to visit justins family, and we were planning on leaving around 11 or so depending on when valen would need his morning nap. what ended up happening was valen decided to be a cranky pants in the middle of the night and i was up with him for a while, and then justin was also. finally about 5:45 justin came back to bed and then i couldnt sleep after that... then dahlia wakes up at 7 am screaming in her room. so i go get her and she just sets on the couch with me pointing at everything saying, doo doo doo? so i am about to cry cuz i know she isnt going to want to go back to sleep and justin was up with valen for a while so i wouldnt be able to convince him to be with her while i went back to bed, so i was so bummed. but then i had a thought, if valen wakes up then we can just leave right then to go to olympia and maybe i could get a nap once we get there.. anyways, within a few minutes valen woke up. so i went in and got justin up too. we started getting ready and by 9 am we were out the door. the kids actually didnt sleep much at all. valen fell asleep a little after kelso and dahlia was wide awake the whole time. a little cranky, i might add also )= she used to do very well in the car, even on long rides, but not anymore. good thing i brought some cheerios along or she probably would have been crying the whole time. so after we got there we had fun, bla bla bla... but i will skip to the night time part, this is where it gets exciting (= we werent planning on staying overnight, we were going to drive home around 9pm so the kids could just go to sleep on the way, but it was cold and icy so we thought we had better not till morning. i was nervous about that, i didnt think dahlia would do well at all. she barely goes to bed in her own bed at home, let alone a strange house and a big bed too. so she refused to go to sleep anywhere, she was so tired but so cranky and just kept fussing about climbing up and down the stairs... finally almost midnight, she fell asleep on justin and he dropped her into bed. she slept all night with justin and we woke her up at 930. oh my goodness. thankfully valen did well. he only woke up one time(which is normal) and went back to sleep shortly after. then we tried rushing around to get out of there by 10:30, which turned into 11, and dahlia was just fussing over things. she has been different the past week, maybe this is the beginning of the terrible twos.. so we got in the car and she was very reluctant. and about an hour later when we almost were at kelso, she started freaking out and crying. she needed to poo, but couldnt while sitting in her carseat, so she got really frustrated and didnt understand why i couldnt just take her out. so we took a little trip to target. fed valen a bottle and we chased dahlia around until we smelt a lovely aroma. then she was a happy camper (= 

i am soooo looking forward to the days when they sleep good.... just one night is all i ask!