Thursday, December 22, 2011

The Polar Express

On the way home this afternoon, we took a detour to surprise the kids with a ride on the Polar Express.  They wore their pjs, sang Christmas carols, sipped on hot chocolate, ate cookies, and visited with Santa.  They also got their tickets punched by the conductor.  They were really surprised and had a wonderful time!

the train
 they've got a ticket to ride the Polar Express
 Cooper spent most of the train ride like this
 Daddy and Reagan
 Mommy & Cooper
 Mom and her girl
 clapping along to the Polar Express Song
 Cheers for hot chocolate
 yummy!
Having a great time 
 you couldn't get him away from the window
 except to eat a cookie!
 Mr Conductor punching tickets
 tickets, tickets please 
 finally getting around to eating her cookie
 Dad and Cooper
 he hasn't been in the mood to smile for my camera lately!
 some of the lights we saw on the train ride
 Santa Clause is here!
 Making sure he had Reagan's wish list correct!
 Asking Cooper if he's been a good boy this year
 Santa's elf
 Santa gave the kids bells to ring as we sang "Jingle Bells"
 Singing with all the kids in the middle aisle
 We sang "12 Days of Christmas" and our family was the "3 French Hens"
Cooper missed his nap all week!
 more French Hens
 then we sang "Rudolph"
 all the kids gathered in the center aisle to sing "Frosty the Snowman"
 then, we pulled back into the train station
 this is the "official photo" from our Polar Express Ride

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