I've Moved!: santa train

Sometimes I forget just how lucky I am to be raising my girls in Colorado. Today it was wonderfully clear! We joined the Fessler family in Colorado Springs for the Santa Train. It's a 60 minute ride on the cogs railway up Pike's Peak to Four Mile Siding. Santa, Mrs. Claus, and the elves ride up on the train singing Christmas carols and visiting with the kids. The girls were a bit slow to warm up to Santa and the gang, but they were happy to sing and dance along to the songs.

Once up to Four Mile Siding, the girls were able to get off the train, visit with Santa, enjoy hot chocolate and cookies and explore the beautiful scenery. My girls are hikers and B was thrilled. He's got big plans in their future. I'm a city girl, but believe it or not, I can hardly wait!

After the train trip we all had lunch at The Loop in Manitou Springs. It was 1:30 before we finally got to eat so we were definitely working on borrowed time. Cade, Annabelle, and Gwyneth did great though! They are really sweet kids and we all had a very fun Colorado day.

It doesn't get much better than this...

The girls are very into trains right now and were pretty happy with the cookies too.

off to explore the mountain

B was very happy with the girls willingness to explore and can't wait to get them back up in the mountains.

Hard to tell if Cade is making his move on Annabelle or her cookie!

Me and my sweet girls

The visit with Santa and Mrs. Claus did not rank high on the girls' must do list. I told Annabelle if she wasn't nice to Santa he wouldn't bring her any gifts. She said "Ok. I'll take GG's". Oh boy!