All Aboard!

We took the kids on a trip to the North Pole!!! (Okay it was Connersville, IN...but they don't know that) We drove just under 2 hours to get to the station for this seasonal trip. They offer the Polar Express every Christmas Season, but the tickets go quick and we were lucky to have got them at all. When you arrive there is a number of photo opportunities. We then loaded on the train. All kids wear their pajamas, as they do in the book and movie. We sat in seats facing each other. When we began the trip, the conductor came around and asked each of the kids names. He then punched the first letter of their names into their tickets. My kids are obsessed with the movie so they thought this was awesome. Then they began reading the Polar Express story over the intercom as girls dressed as waitors, such as those in the "Hot Chocolate" song moved back and forth in the car showing pictures in the book. They then served us hot chocolate and cookies, but did not perform the song. We were all disappointed. :( We then arrived (2 hours later) at "the north pole". It was a lit up village with elves and all. We had to sing Santa Clause is coming to town as loud as we can and then Santa came out of his house. He then boarded the train and the rest of the trip he went seat to seat asking the kids what they wanted for Christmas and handing out bells just like the ones in the movie. The kids had so much fun and we had a blast watching them see all the "magic". They are already asking us when we can go again.

Josh turns 30! (Old man!)

Josh turned 30 today! We had a surprise party for him. He never suspected anything, but unfortunately he got off work early and showed up before half our guests did. We all still had a great time and AWESOME food. FYI Bird's Smokehouse Barbeque in Daleville is Amazing. We ordered their food to serve at the party and all we can say is YUM! We had 50 people in our house this evening. This just reminds me that much more of why Josh and I constantly talk of adding onto our home. The best gift we could have gotten was that Josh is back to work. It may only last a month, eventhough they keep telling him they won't lay him off again. For now he is working 6 days a week, 12 hours a day. We are paying bills left and right!

Trick or Treat. Smell my feet!

Obviously Kaleb was a dinosaur...surprise surprise. Kelsey chose to be an angel (very appropriate) and I may be a little bias but I think she must be the most beautiful angel EVER! Kylie chose Hannah Montana...again are we surprised?! We had a blast trick or treating. We went with the Webb family. Kaiden and Hunter, our godsons went as Remy and Emile from Ratatouille and were sooo adorable. The kids remembered wuickly how to ring doorbells and say trick or treat. Kylie had also learned the "Trick or treat, smell my feet give me something good to eat" song. She taught it to the twins. Of course they only remembered the first two lines. They gather 3 huge bags of candy between my mom's neighborhood, our church, and a few other random stops. They were sugared up and hyper at the end of the night and I wanted to collapse and go to bed!