Employee day at railfest

I know that this was last week, but I still wanted to put these on. The kids had so much fun at Railfest Employee day. First we were given the largest hotdogs and hamburgers ever, chips, salad, beans and drinks. Then off to the games we went. Braxton and Katie went to play volleyball and if the ball landed on a shirt they won the shirt. Braxton did really well and got the ball over every time but missed the shirts, after a million tries he finally hit one. Katie on the other hand, not so good :) she would try really hard and then laugh. Finally we just picked her up and pulled down the net so that she couldn't miss. Then they went and got squirt guns, I am so mean though and wouldn't let them play. It was cloudy, breezy and only 60 degrees, so we just took all of our guns home for another day. Then Braxton went and played baseball and saw how fast of speed he could throw the ball. Then we all went and got our picture taken and they made us a bunch of magnets with our kids and family picture on them. Then the kids went and got ballon animals and sword, got their faces painted, and played in the jump house. Marshall loved the little kiddie one, he was the only one in it most of the time. Marshall loved all of the food. He ate most of his hot dog and chips, a snow cone, 2 bags of cotton candy and an ice cream. He was on the biggest sugar rush ever.

Railfest

Today was the first day of Railfest. We were able to go on a bus tour (that was suppose to be 1hr long and ended up 2 1/2 hours long). For how long it was the kids did really well. We were able to see 6 of the heritage engines and take a tour of where Wes works. This is the only time during the year that the public can go see all of it. Normally you can you in only walk in a small path and only look at a few parts of his work. The kids loved looking at everything, but Braxton loved it the most. He has always loved trains and this brought his fascination to life. Katie was really excited because there is an engine named "The Katy," she didn't understand why they spelt her name wrong but knew this train was here just for her. After the bus tour we went and rode the mini train. I told Wes that I really want one of these, it was so much fun and fun to see the look on my kids face. After we got off the train they had a little booth with train hats. Braxton still had money left over for his birthday so he bought 3 hats, 2 suckers and 1 fan (thanks again Grandma Myra, and he still has money left over). As I said this is day one of the railfest, we are going back tomorrow for Employee day. Hopefully more pictures tomorrow.