Merry Christmas

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Merry Christmas!

Christmas Trains

While Grandma and Papa Kraczek were her for a visit Evan and I took them to the U.S. botanical gardens to see their Christmas Garden Railway. It is a really fun exhibit featuring model trains and incredible replicas of Washington, DC's most famous buildings and monuments all built out of plant materials. Once you take a close look you see walls made from leaves and sticks and roof shingles made from pine cone pieces. The pictures don't really do it justice.

 They have several trains running along different tracks including a Thomas and Percy train running around the little fairy houses built out of plant materials. There was also a James train running around the 24' decorated Christmas tree. in the main hall.

Evan couldn't get enough of the trains. He would run back and forth from Thomas to Percy laughing and saying "Hi Thomas! Hi Percy"

 We had such a fun time that we went back a week later with Daddy to show him the trains too. 

Happy Thanksgiving

I was afraid that the apple pie wouldn't make it till after dinner so I had the holiday penguins keep watch for me. The one with the hat in particular has an especially menacing stare.  Happy Holidays.

Leaves and Sticks

One of the best things about living in Virginia is that we get all four seasons and that it doesn't get really cold till December. A few days in November it was up in the 70's. Evan has really enjoyed crunching through the leaves and playing with the sticks that fall from all the trees in the yard.

We had to play in the front yard because Daddy had already raked up all the leaves in the back yard. Soon after this picture was taken the leaves were gone in the front yard as well. "bye, bye leaves"