The Polar Express! -Lindon Style

Here we go again! Such a fun Christmas tradition! We found the best kept secret in Utah! The Anderson family in upper Lindon share a wonderful family tradition each year! All of their families live on the same block. They share about 5 acres of land and they are all crazy about trains. They have set up a track all through their property and during the Christmas season they do a "Polar Express" train ride around their property. It is amazing! It is pretty hard to get a reservation but thanks to Rick Hardman...we were able to go! It was kinda last minute...so we couldn't get everyone here...but next time...
All the kids wore BIG COATS! It was chilly! When you arrive you go into a big heated garage and watch The Polar Express movie until it is your turn. Then you go out to board the "train" and then line up to go on your adventure! I asked one of the sons why they do this... and he said that they want their children to learn to serve otheres at an early age... The whole family and some neighbors are there to help each night! What a great family and wonderful tradition!
Here we are waiting to go!

Abby and Audrey with me...

Angie ~ Lizzy ~ Nate

Mason and Macie are really excited!

Macie ~ Ryan and Millie

Becca and Levi with the kids!

Trey ~Oakley and Preston. Grandma and Grandpa Miller (Nate's mom and dad) came with us! It was so fun to have them there! Jenny was home with our new baby grandson Jett.

Becca and Audrey

On the train and ready to go!

Jane and Brent are great sports!
Lizzy and Dallas

Nate and the boys!

Me hanging on for dear life! I came from work..in a skirt! Not to smart!

Ryan and the girls!

Arriving at the North Pole!

Santa's workshop!

It was Sadie's 9th birthday...so she got to sit on Santa's lap first!

Santa with Mason...

The kids learning about the true meaning of the candy cane and about the true meaning of Christmas!

Matt and all the kids.

Mason was really fascinated with Santa! He didn't want to leave.

We sang Silent Night with Santa and then headed out to catch our train back to the station! On the way home they played beautiful music and we saw paintings about the birth of Christ. It was a great way to remember the true meaning of Christmas. We loved it!

Birth of Christ

Christ teaching

After we got back to the train station...we went out to Matt's truck and we all had hot chocolate and donuts for Sadie's birthday! It was a perfect night!

Lizzy's Baby Shower!

Angie and Jenny and Becca had a Baby Shower for Lizzy... it was amazing! Angie's sister's helped as well and her mom! We are so blessed to have them be part of our family! We had such a great time and so many wonderful friends came! Everyone was so generous! Lizzy won't need anything else! Angie planned to have yummy soups and rolls! It was so delicious and such we had such a fun time!!

Here is the dessert table! Cupcakes ~ Oreo Truffles~ and Chocolate and Caramel covered pretzels! YUM!
Becca did the decorations! It was adorable!

Lizzy had so much fun!

Leesa with Vanessa and Krista - our cousins!

Sherry and Lindsay our dear friends! Sherry and I have known each other for 40 years! She was in our first ward!

This is a picture of some of my favorite people in all the world! When Matt and Becca got married...we inherited these beautiful woman! Angie's mom and sisters Ashley and Amber and Fran and Katie... Levi's (Becca's) mom in law and sister in law. How blessed we are to have them for our very own!

Sam and McKell...Lizzy's good friends and their little guys!

My nieces Aubrey and Katelyn...and baby Jessa! They are my brother Craig's girls.

The Spinder girls! Staci ~Shannalee and Becca. They are dear friends. Their mom Lois broke her toe that morning and couldn't come! We love these girls!

Staci is my granddaughters favorite person! They all LOVE HER!

Julie and Kaylie and Ashley my darling sister in law and nieces!

Ashlee and Madison with Lizzy...she is Lizzy's old roommate!

And one more with Staci....

Hal's cousins Becca and Jeanette! We love them!

Our beautiful Angie and her mom and sisters Ashley and Amber!

Grandma with Lizzy and Julie and her girls

My dear friend Sherie Warner! So glad she came!

Thanksgiving Dinner and Weekend

We had a fun Thanksgiving this year! These are some random shots of the events!

The boys were hungry and ready to eat!

Hurry Granny...

Ryan and Nate

Mckay

Hal and Jenny with Mckay -looks like he is trying to be sneaky and get something out of that bowl?

The guys... Hal ~ Dallas~Mckay ~Ryan~Nate and Brett

Matt and Levi didn't get there until later.

Amy and Brett

After dinner all the kids made pillowcases! Fun!

Angie and Sadie and Mason

Abby Lou.. the Princess!

Becca and Audrey our other princess!

Macie - how adorable is she? Another princess!

The girls and my phone... it is too much fun! They beg to play...

Jaxson

Levi with Abby and Audrey - time to go home.:(

Becca and Brigham

The next morning it was breakfast at Kneaders for the whole crew!

Abby ~Audrey ~Jaxson ~ Sadie and Benny

Becca Levi and Brig

Brigham charming us!

Audrey

Then it was off to Build A Bear and Costco and some Craft Shows!
Benny's birthday trip to Build A Bear! This is our favorite "Bear Counselor" Staci! We all love her!

Benny getting his snow monster all brushed and cleaned up!

Grandpa and Granny with Benny!

Audrey found a place to get her face painted! She was so excited!

Miss Abby got a BYU Cougar too! All for the big game!

So cute! The artist was amazing!

It was a really fun weekend! I can't believe I didn't get pictures of Lizzy and Taylor and I going to Old Navy at midnight for Black Friday deals! I have NEVER seen such a line! They told me if I opened a credit card I could go right to the head of the line and SO I DID! We got pj's for everyone for $5.00 each! Sweet!