Children's Christmas Party

We started off the Christmas season with the squadron's Children's Christmas party! Shane enjoyed the Christmas decor!
Santa came and read the kids a Christmas story.
I have to say the boys held still pretty well.
Logan had no problem visiting with Santa!
The squadron even bought snow balls and everyone (minus a lot of us ladies) enjoyed a snow ball fight. Thank goodness the snow ball fight was at the end of the party because once Logan got tagged he was a wreck.
Here Santa asks Logan to give him some knuckles. I missed the shot when Logan actually did it. Darn! Too much excitement!
Here Evan talks Christmas with Shane.
Shane was curious with the book Santa gave Olivia.
Hmmm I think this is the first Christmas tree Shane got to get up close to. Of course he wanted to redecorate it! Gave me a glimpse of what I was in for.
Shane's first visit with Santa! Dad walked him up there...
At first Shane looked like he was all about Santa and checking out his big beard.
The he thought, "Are you going to leave me with this white bearded guy?"
"I am going to SCREAM!"
"Oh, you have a candy cane? Why didn't you say so? I will take that, thank you!"
"Ahhhh Dad is back to rescue me. Now I can enjoy my candy cane and present."


Logan and his friends got to make gingerbread man cookie ornaments. They looked tasty!

A Farting Dog Brings Tears

Tim read "Walter the Farting Dog" to Logan and laughed so much he has tears! While Logan definitely enjoyed the book and Dad being hysterical about it, I think Tim enjoyed it even more.
What a dork.

Hiking in the Snow in Riudoso!

The view on the drive up to Riudoso.
We saw a lot of deer along the ride. We could tell the people enjoyed leaving feed out for the deer in their yards. It was so pretty and definitely made me feel like Christmas was on its way.
Walking over the water.
On our adventures Shane is pretty quiet. He is just so thrilled to be taking it all in.
I always try and be the last in line so that I can keep my eye on the wanderers.
It had just snowed the night before so the snow was fresh and pretty.
Tim showed Logan how to eat snow last winter. Now Logan is obsessed
It was a beautiful day.
Here Logan decides to share his snow (that he keeps eating) with a "baby tree".
Shane needs to get in on the action and touch some snow!
I just thought the above and below photos were cool.
Oooh the joys of snow eating.
We let Shane down for a few minutes so he could check it all out. He wasn't sure how to crawl on it but he was interested.

Riding theTrain in Alamogordo!!

Finally we are ready to ride the train! Logan has his ticket and he is ready to go!


Sheesh these photos are all out of order. Ugh!!! Any way you have to watch and see just who enjoys this train ride the most!!!

Logan finally warms up and waves.
I just love this photo!
Oh gosh these photos of Shane just tickle me. It was sooo hard to select which photos to post. Of course I have gobs so you shall get many.I guess it is hard to see the difference in Shanes expression in this venue but in the above photo he looks excited but a bit taken back. In the next one he is just delighted.

Here he is thrilled to death! He had no idea what was in store for him! This was the first time Shane was on a moving fun ride.

Logan enjoyed the rise also but he was very subdued and seemed to be taking in the scenery. I guess he has been on a train before sooooo
Did I mention Shane clap's now? I am loving that. Sometimes if I ask him if he wants a cracker he will clap.

I wasn't sure what Shane saw up there but he pointed BOTH hands at it. He points at things a lot right now. To me it seems like he is pointing to things he is looking at and taking in. Our ride at the Train Depot in Alamogordo was a lot of fun!

Train Galleria

Yep still wasting time waiting to ride the train. Of course none of this time was really wasted if you haven't noticed buuuuuuuuuut. Here we are inside of the train depot. There were three rooms of model trains. Oh boy a piece of train heaven!!
Shane loved the train that was up high. He would stare at it as it made its way all around the room.
Oh I started putting the captions at the bottom of the photo it applies to. I used to put it at the top but it took me some effort (time) to do it that way. I think blogspot wants me to do it this way soooo....

The gentlemen that ran the model trains was giddy that we were there and the boys were so enthralled with the trains. You could tell this was their hobby and gave them a lot of joy. They had a lot of pride in their trains. They took great care in which ones they purchased etc. At the end of our tour they invited Tim to join the VFW. We heard all kinds of stories. An interesting one was that they made pink trains at one time to try and get women interested in Trains. There is also a pink train running today in honor of breast cancer and they were certain to purchase the model of it and display it there!
What is the deal with this underline?? I have checked the code and tried to get it to STOP. It must be somewhere in my setting... Ah well...

Fun Fall Park Fun

Here we are at the park still wasting time before the train depot opens so we can ride the train!!! What else is there to do but attempt to eat leaves?

Ahhhhh the phase of putting everything in ones mouth. It is a cute phase overall but this part of it BITES (pun intended).

We thought it would bea chilly day but were pleasantly surprised when it turned out to be beautiful.
Logan wore this hat all around Italy. I still like it. I like that it is comfy and velcros so little dudes cant quite get it off. A few more months and it would be ripped off for sure.
Did you wonder where Tim and Logan were?
Love the action shots. Love the camera. Love the boys having fun.

Logan Loves Trains

Logan loves trains. He loves to play trains, look at trains online, look at trains up close, read train books, talk about trains ... you get the idea. So we set off to go to the Train Depot in Alamogordo. Turned out we had an hour to waste because it wasn't open yet. Lucky for us the BIG real life size train track was nearby......


Logan loves walking on the train tracks, he liked looking at the coal here and there around the tracks, he liked trying to balance on the track edge, he liked everything but leaving.