THE POLAR EXPRESS!!!

We had our annual trip (um, second annual) to ride the Polar Express train in New Hope, PA. Our whole family just loves doing it and we anticipate it for weeks. It is just such a fun experience, and since we've almost completely memorized the movie-all of the little finishing touches are not lost on us!

An actual coal train! Love all that smoke. If you're not chokin' then you're not having a good enough time! It gets loud w/ all the clacking and whistles blowing!

The bundled up Barno's

The conductor of the train! Chase forgot to wear his hat-he was not very happy about that!

Waiting to get their tickets punched

Now that Tyler can take a picture we may have more shots of Phil and I together

A cute dad and a cute girl

My 2 favorite boys. Notice the hot chocolate in the background-served w/ cookies!

This shirt makes me laugh every time

These boys are having fun

That smile kills me

My favorite girl

Kids are just hilarious

Here is the conversation I am hearing while doing the dishes. The boys have the neighbor boys over (their Jewish/Catholics) and they are fighting ghosts. I hear Chase tell Alex, the Holy Ghost is a good ghost so he's with us. We have lots of weapons and we're fighting all the bad ghosts. So they're running around yelling, "protect us Holy Ghost!!!" The older neighbor boy just said, "I have no idea what he's talking about." So funny!