Train Museum

Who knew we had this little train museum so close by!?? We got a private tour of some of the train cars.
I'm pretty sure it was a private tour b/c we were the only ones there...

Look at our luck! A real train came by when we were there!

Jaxy got to sit in a seat on the caboose, he was very happy about that!

Stephen got to drive it!

Daddy and Jaxy posing in front of the very long train that went by!

Here's a first class train car we got to go on

Fancy stuff!

It was a little creepy too

This is the bath house! Not much privacy and can you say Burrr in the winter!

We even got a close up view of our second favorite thing! A firetruck!

Stephen got to drive this too!

Then we had this cool train playroom all to ourselves. We couldn't get the boys out!

To top it all off, a really cool model train of Los Angeles

Merry Christmas!!! (finally)

Bad blogging for 2010 so far. Sorry folks.
The blog is slow tonight so I'll start with updating from Christmas.
We went over to grandma and grandpa's on Christmas eve, daddy made delicious soup as we all waited patiently Stephen's "snack spot" at the grandparents house

Phoebe assumed eating position right under the high chair

This year it was Jaxon's turn to be tortured by the Christmas jammies!

He was a very good sport.

Stephen graduated to Thomas jammies but I still made him wear a goofy hat.

This kid hates his picture being taken sometimes!

Jaxy destroying grandma's kitchen

Santa was VERY good to us all this year!

We spent hours opening presents!

The boys got so may great presents! Look at his cool easel!

This present still had the bow on it

Stephen got this cool fire truck tent, the boys love it!

Clearly!

Aunt Suzy loves it too!

The newest little Starwars fan!

Stevie loves to help cook, he made tiramisu muffins! Yumm

We hope everyone had a very merry Christmas!

Stay tuned for more updates!

The kids are getting SO excited about Christmas!

More fun at the park

Stephen loves this contraption! He was so happy that we let him up so high! Stevie and Buzz

Climbing with daddy

Jaxon looking a bit distressed on the slides...

He loves to play on this thing though, the music notes ring and ding when you move them

They didn't have swings like this when I was a kid!

There's always time for a quick temper tantrum! He got so mad I was taking his picture!

Jaxy pretending not to know Stephen.

Static anyone?

The rock wall!

Decorating time!

Daddy has been working hard decorating the front of the house for Christmas this year!
He's done a great job! Stephen LOVES the lights!

and we've officially crossed over to the dark side and have inflattable lawn decor...I blame the sister in law from southwest Virginia!!

I just put this one up b/c you don't see too many serious face Jaxon pics

Aunt Kaitly was here for Stephen's first Christmas tree!

Here they are 2 years ago

and now she was here for Jaxon's too!!

Jaxy was so happy she came down to help us!

hard at work

A little back story:

Daddy started a Christmas village, Stephen saw one of the figures climbing a ladder and putting a star up on the tree. From that moment he became obsessed w/ climbing a ladder and putting the star on our tree. So...here we go!

putting the star on the tree

a dream come true!

high fiving daddy

But then we decided the star was too high so we cut some of the branch off and made him do it again.

Love Stephen's face in this one!

Reliving the moment

Success!