The magical train station

Retro Post 5

We stopped by the train museum on the way home from grandma's one day.  This place is tiny but it was filled with Christmas warmth.  There is something about old trains and christmas that makes me want to sing songs and drink eggnog.  We watched the old train sets as the trains circled through the hills and scenes.

Then we talked to the Jolly Fat Man.  Alivia is not in the following pictures because she stayed a good ten feet away from him the whole time.  Marlin and Molly went up with Matt and told Santa what they wanted for Christmas.

Then Little Miss "no-Fear" sat on Santa's lap.

What's Gonna Work?

Farm work!  What's gonna work...team work.  We have a wood burning furnace and that means that Matt spends a lot of time cutting and stacking firewood.  Sometime, if we want to see him on the weekend we need to help out.  We look forward to having three strapping children capable of unloading a truckload of wood in 2 minutes flat but right now we will take what we can get. 

For the princess, the proper clothes for the occasion are always required

The little princess doesn't miss a thing.  She truly believes she is as big as everyone else and she is right in the middle of the action in every situation...including stacking wood.

When it is her idea, Alivia can work hard and be very helpful already.  Im proud of my 5 year old "farm girl"

I am also proud of my 3 year old "farm boy."  Marlin worked and worked to get a good sized (for him) log to the wood pile.  He dropped it several times and finally got it stacked on the pile.  Then my little son swelled up and strutted off to get his next log. Its hard to describe how his entire posture and expression turned from a struggling little boy to a serious bad  ass. 

Four Month Old Jack O Lanterns

So I took a four month break from this blog.  I don't have any excuses I am just busy.  During those months we had Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.  I am declaring this retro week and will be catching up on some of the highlights that I missed blogging about.  Hopefully by next week I will be caught up and can have more current posts.

October---

The big kids got pumpkins from a pumpkin patch that their school took them to.  They drew faces on the pumpkins so we could cut them out. 

 

Outside seemed like the best option for this messy project.  Molly was sleeping so she did not get to join in the mess but that made things a lot more simple.

When we were done carving them we put them on the front porch.  That evening we went out to light our Jack O Lanters and see what they looked like in the dark. 

When I took the picture of the Jack O Lanterns, Alivia and Marlin were screaming because it was dark.  So, I used the flash for the next picture and got this shot below.

Very Scary

A Sledding Story by Alivia

Alivia: "Me and marlin had lots of fun.  We went sledding in our back yard before we went sledding at the cabin."

Alivia: "That's when we went sledding at the cabin.  It was really fun.  We liked it a lot and we had hot chocolate when we got home.  And we had snowball fights and made a big snowman when we went sledding." 

Everybody Ready....

GO!

Alivia: "Don't tip Daddy!"

Laughing out Loud!

Molly was laughing the whole way down the hill everytime.  She wanted to go over and over again.  When we headed back to the cabin she let out 2 seconds of crying and then leaned back and fell

asleep in the sled. 

I tried to lay her down in the cabin but it didn't work.  We came outside and built a snowman.

Molly did not participate.  She was DONE!