Trains, Trains and More Trains

Sunday afternoon we all loaded into 3 cars and headed to downtown Kansas City. The goal? See a bunch of trains and then have dinner delivered by one.

The kids (big and little alike!) had a ball looking at the massive train set displayed in Union Station.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The kiddos also all thoroughly enjoyed walking through The Link (an enclosed, above the street sidewalk system that connects several buildings in Kansas City).

 

We then took the kiddos to Crown Center for some fine dining. Ah, that line just makes me giggle... what we ate was anything but "fine". To be fair though, you don't go to Fritz's for the food - you go because a train delivers your food!

See that train at the top of the picture? It rides around a track in the restaurant delivering food! In the above picture the train is just dropping our box of food off. The food was then lowered to the table on a tray. Nifty, huh? The kids love it. They also love the conductor hats!

 

 

 

After dinner we bundled up and headed outside to take in the Mayor's Christmas Tree and the fountains!

 

 

 

 

 

 

And that, my friends, is how we ended our Chaotic Christmas! It was a ball and I wish it could have lasted longer! To close out my few days of excessive picture posts, I'd like to leave you with just one more shot. My family, all together again for the first time in several years!

Cookie Decorating With 2 Year Olds

Turns out the boys are still a bit young for cookie decorating. I'm thinking the decision to let them decorate gingerbread men with their older cousins (ages 3 and 5) was not one of my smarter moves of 2009. Oh well. Live and learn!

Of course, the boys thoroughly enjoyed their time with giant bowls of frosting on the table... Jackson alone had probably 5 or 6 spoonfuls of the sweet stuff!

 

 

Tyler had fun too and I saw him sneak a couple of spoons of frosting. I think he had more fun though watching his cousins decorate their cookies.

 

Chase wasn't into the whole "spoon it on in big globs" way of decorating. He wanted to try out the special decorating squeeze bottles. He wasn't really strong enough to squeeze much out though, so really he ended up just jamming cookie up the tip.

After their lunch of frosting and cookie bits, we gave the boys some meatballs for dessert... Oh boy was Jackson a mess by the end of all of that!

 

White Christmas

Uh, I got the white Christmas I was dreaming of... And then some!

 

 

Those pictures were all taken at 7am yesterday morning.... all day it snowed off and on and this morning? Yup, STILL snowing! This is just crazy! Here in Kansas City we're lucky if we get two inches at a time and that only happens a couple of times a year. Right now I would say we've got about 8 inches on our lawn! I can not wait to take the boys and their cousins out in the snow later. We won't last long out there though - considering KC doesn't usually get much I haven't bothered to buy the boys boots or snow pants!

Alright, on to some random pictures of yesterday's fun...

 

 

Jackson was dying to sneak a peak, but we wanted to wait for the cousins to arrive.

There they are! Jumping in a snow bank in their PJs :)

Chase

Chase & Jackson

Chase checking out Jackson's ear with the new doctor kit they got

Jessica and Breckenridge

Jackson

Ready? Set? OPEN!

 

The aftermath

 

Chase & Nick

Jessica

 

Abby, Breckenridge and Jessica (who is not at all happy about having her picture taken)

Aunt Laura finally made it over around 11am - she was snowed in at her apartment, had to wait for a plow and then still got stuck trying to get here!

Lots of fun was had! On the docket today? Playing in the snow and letting the kids decorate gingerbread men! Oh, and I still have pictures of our time swimming in the pool to share too!