One last present...

So turns out Santa came to Richmond while we were gone too and dropped off a table for Charlie's new trains.  Oh my, he needed to bring a bigger house!  Classy piece for the living room though, right?

Christmas 2011

Some pictures from Christmas and fun times afterwards...

Grandpa reading Twas the Night Before Christmas

Excitement coming down the stairs Christmas morning!

Percy!

The three things Charlie asked for... Percy, Elmo and a red race car

Christmas doggie

Waiting intently on his turn

Ohhh... more train stuff

We might regret this later

More train stuff!!!

And more!!!

Practicing their marching skills

"Look at this massive train set up Mommy!"

Very serious about trains

"I love trains!"

"And drums!"

Off to the races

"And I love this car!"

Tuckered out with her favorite two presents

Practicing more the next day

OMG, how cute are these matching shirts!

Ohhh, a magic trash can

My favorite picture ever

Had to take two

Future blackmail material

Family shot one

Hugs for Gigi

Visiting Brother Beans on the way back home

More trains at Grandma and Grandpa Lane's house!

Trains are serious business

But fun too!

Train Museum

The title says it all.  In Duluth there is an awesome museum full of old trains for little ones to climb all over.  We spend the morning there with Jake, Sam, Uncle Kevin and Grandpa going in and out of various types of cars.  What fun for all the boys!  (James and I thought it was pretty cool too to step back in time).  We took a lot of pictures and even got to ride one of the trains up and down a track.

Peek a boo

Driving the train

Jake driving

In a caboose car

An old main car (and two little boys sprinting to the next car)

They had old Marta buses too

A kitchen car

A nice model train set too

Wow

Going for a ride

Sitting with Grandpa

Sam is having fun too!

Punching the ticket

Peeking through the punched hole

Fun in Atlanta

This year we packed up the car, the boy and the dog and headed down I-85 to spend Christmas with the Grovers and Tweedy's.  The drive wasn't so bad with pit-stops in Charlotte both ways and a stop in Cary on the way home too.  On the way down we stayed with Eric, Alecia (and got to see Dave and April too) then we stayed with Emily and Colin on the way back up.  We also had a nice Christmas visit with the Lanes for a few days.  Below are some pictures from the Pre-Christmas part of our trip...

Grandpa's choo-choos are sooooo cool

Singing Christmas carols with Dad

Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum

The matching jammies weren't planned

Making cookies with Gigi

What?

Soccer balls!

Happy faces

What is over there?

Going for a touchdown

More cookies!

Decorating cookies is so fun

There is Jake

Best buds

Trying a family picture... this'll do

"Sam, check out these choo choos"

Thomas blankets!

Silly guy