Polar Express and the Birthday Boy

December 21st, 2009

We took the kids to ride the polar express!

Yes the real polar express!

With Tom Hanks and everything (just kidding on the Tom Hanks part, but the conductor did try to look like Tom and wanted to be called Tom Hanks!)

The train was very loud- It was very scary according to Carley, who kept repeating, “its scary” over and over again.

Riding the Polar express was so much fun. Notice the bandage on Carley’s finger. She had to have two stitches a few days before that. I will go into that later.

They served us hot chocolate and cookies and told us they magically took out all of the calories. And we sang all the songs from the movie and Christmas carols.  All the children were encouraged to wear their pajamas. (but I forgot that part)

And when we got to the North Pole, Santa and his Elves got on board and made a visit with all the children. He even gave everyone their very own bell from his sleigh.

Hayden got to dance with an elf named “Marshmellow”

It was lots of fun to ride the polar express.

We had a birthday over the weekend. He picked out a christmas cake from the local bakery for two reasons. Mom was too sick to bake and he wanted one.

but it really goes against what I like to do. Because baking and cooking are my thing. I pride myself on it. But alas, when the boy wants a cake from the grocery store…. you get him a cake from a grocery store. He originally wanted a cake like one he saw at church during a marriage celebration with tiers and everything. But I’m not that good.

So we settled on this one. (But my cakes are much tastier than this cake)

He wanted to go to Mr. Gattis which is a pizza/arcade place. They even had bumper cars. I would have taken a picture but I was too busy riding them.

And he got the best gift from Grandma, “lasar tag” just like uncle Robs. He was most excited about this.

All in all it was a pretty good week.

Happy Birthday Landon.

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