Santa Train

Our 2nd annual Santa train ride in Georgetown was just as amazing as last year!

The Georgetown Loop Railroad offers a Christmas train ride with Santa during the holidays and you get to enjoy cookies and hot chocolate and go on an amazing train ride through the mountains!  We have done it for 2 years as a Christmas activity/celebrating Papa's birthday.  The train takes about an hour roundtrip and the kids get to visit with Santa, he gives them a bell and takes lots of pictures.  Toward the end of the train ride it was getting dark and there were Christmas lights on outside the train that you could see - so magical :)

 

Santa and Mrs. Clause with all the cousins!  We pretty much got our own car again (besides a table of 4 at the end) because our family is so large!

Grandma & Papa with all the kids

 

Brady getting a bell from Santa and Brady reminding him that he wants gummy bears for Christmas - lol :)

 

 

Love this pic of my boys enjoying the gorgeous view!

 

 

The whole group!

 

All bundled up and prepared for the cold weather :)

This was a really neat milestone because our train ride last year was when we announced to the family that I was pregnant with Hadley and now this year she is here, healthy and enjoying the Christmas season with us!  Amazing what a difference a year makes!

Love these memories we are creating for the kids!

After the train ride we headed into town and went to a great restaurant.  It is so perfect for us because it has a cave in the basement and the restaurant lets us take over the whole thing.  There is a pool table, tvs for football and tons of room so the kids can just run around and play before and after eating.  It's the only way to go out to dinner with 17 people (including 9 kids) and stay sane - haha!

Happy Birthday Papa!!