Rail Fest 2012

I never realized until this year how big of a deal Rail Fest is around here. There was so many activities for families to do, and most of them free! One of the activities was a miniature train ride. The little train was pretty neat to see and the kids Loved riding it around the park!

Sun in the face. In front of Engine.

Joe, Lindsay, and Matthew talking to the driver. Also size comparison.

Back two cars.

Waiting to ride.

Second time to ride. This time with friends!

How the passengers rode. in the brown and silver box cars.

Excited to ride the Cody park rides. They were able to ride as much as they wanted. 

 They also had big inflatable activities. The kids loved the bounce house and the huge slide!

Look at that smile!

So Excited!

Joe walking up the slide with Lindsay on his back

Lindsay and Joe at top!

Matthew's turn

Lindsay on way down!

And Matthew too!

I love how happy he was to jump his heart out!

 We were able to do other activities as well. I just didn't do good with the camera. We walked around and looked at the craft fair, where they had some very cute displays. We also had supper at the park with all the different vendors around. Joe had an according to him "amazing carne asauda (Sp) taco", personally it was way to spicy!After all the playing we settled down for an outdoor movie in the ball park. We all snuggled in our blankets and camping chairs to watch the movie The Lorax.  It was a cute movie, it wasn't the "we will probably buy it good' but it was cute none the less.
Saturday there were many, many more activities going on but we had to much to do at home and had had our fun for this year so we ducked out of them. The only thing we couldn't resist on Saturday was watching the firework show that night. It was a very impressive show and even better because we watched it from our yard!
All in all we had lots of fun and look forward to Rail Fest next year!

Update: After pics of Living Room and Dining Room

Not all of the Decor is up yet in these pictures and what is has been moved around but you can still get he general idea of how the rooms have turned out!

First Day of PreSchool

Lindsay started Preschool! I can't believe it, yet at the same time I can because she was ready for it. She goes to school 4 days a week from 8-11:30 am. She is starting to get better at getting up but I for sure do NOT have a morning person on my hands!

She is loving her teacher and what she is learning. She is getting more and more excited to go to class, and it is getting easier to leave mom in the morning. Here is to the start of school in our household! Ready or not here we go!

Fun with Cousins!

Saturday we had lots of cousins in town! We had fun going to the rides with all of them!

Getting a drink from the lion

Everybody! Half of the group looking at me at the same time wasn't to bad for the craziness of the day!

Matthew happy to be on the "horsey ride"

Grandma Blomstedt, Tori, Ashlee, and Axel

JJ, Braxton, Jackson

 It was great to see everybody!

Matthew's Room

The first project after moving and getting settled in was Matthew's room. It took about 3 weeks to make it to the point of actually doing his room. Once, we started it wasn't so bad, the wallpaper was pretty easy to get off (or we learned tricks from the dining room :)). We just had to find time in the evening and I had to be creative with the kids during the day. Here is the room before we started:

Here is the room after we finished (well mostly finished, I will still be adding touches to it here and there, decor, etc.): 

The room diffidently went from a very feminine room to a boy's room. We really like how it turned out, even if it did take a little to get used to because the paint actually dried a couple of shades darker than it was suppose to. But, I think the white helps balance it out. Matthew has been rather excited to have his room. He loves it and has been a good sleeper in his own room. We couldn't be happier!