Memories of Christmas Past

One of Tom's favorite memories as a child, was his mother taking him downtown Cincinnati to see the miniature train display at Christmas time. Since we were not in Cincinnati, it would be hard to recreate that memory completely. But found a good substitute here at home.

Jim Huges' Santa Express Train Show

Tom had a great time.

The exhibit features mountains and valleys, a large town, farm and ranch lands, an amusement park, zoo, airport, circus and much more. 19 trains, 340 automobiles and trucks. 250 and 1850 people. 1000 feet of track.

Santa's Express is truly a labor of love, and a gift to our community from the Hughes' family.

Thanks for the memories and next time you are in town will be bringing the grandchildren to add to their Christmas memories.

Precious Memories of Christmas 2011

Precious Memories of Christmas 2011

The right size and color.

Little Chloe with new pj's and new kitchen.

Caleb with his Safari Train.

Here Chloe and I are looking at my favorite gift, a picture book of this past year.

Precious Memories!!!

Hope you all had a Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year.

Afternoon with Caleb

 While Caleb was out of school for Christmas vacation Tom and I got some special time with him. First, we went to Chuck E. Cheese's for lunch and games.

This is our Caleb loving having his picture taken by Grannie.

Pappy and Caleb

One of his favorite things is to climb through this area hanging from the ceiling. Grannie is made a little nervous by this.

After a couple of hours, we moved on to the Mall and Lunar Golf. Pappy thought this was really cool.

You can barely see Caleb feeding an orange golf ball to this extinct flying reptile (pterodactyl) that was painted on the wall above him. After 36 holes of putt-putt, Pappy and Grannie were tired, but very happy to have spent time with our Caleb. One last stop before leaving the Mall. The photo booth of course.

Pappy and his buddy making faces, Grannie trying to get them to take a good picture.

Now, that is what I call a sweet picture.

Thanks, guys.