We had such a BLAST celebrating Landon and riding the Grapevine train with him!  The kids are on the tracks in this picture, anticipating the train’s grand entrance into the station!

 

Anna Kate hugging her little buddy!  Noelle was so excited to hop up on this saddle!  She is such a cowgirl at heart!

First, we all ate lunch together at Joe T’s and got to eat cake and open presents.  I don’t have many pics from this part of the party because I was using Jon’s camera.

Jon had the table decorated with all things Thomas!  It was impressive.  He even had play doh and toys for the kids while they waited on their lunch.  He thought of everything!

 

On our way to the train, we got to stop by a little petting zoo in the stockyards.  Here’s our animal lover cuddling with a goat!

 

Yikes!  I don’t think I’d be brave enough to let him eat off my hand!

Anna Kate was enjoying the animals from a safe distance.  She’s getting it!

Noelle’s little goat friend started tickling her…

These pictures crack me up!  I love it!

 

Rose was starting to get tired, so we were getting kind of nervous how the train ride would go, but the conductor gave her all of our tickets, and that saved the day!

Here’s a pic of the Pond girls with their momma!

 

                 

Landon’s mom, Heather, and I are always so busy chasing the kiddos, we never get any pictures together, but not today!  Love ya!

 

The big train rolled into the station!

I didn’t get any pictures of the outside of the train, so I clipped this one in for you to see.  It was a pretty big train!  The kids were very impressed!

Here’s the conductor stamping our tickets, and Rose is wanting in on the action.

 

 

That conductor knew what he was doing to give all 5 of our stamped tickets back to Rose.  She was a happy traveler from here on out!

I love this picture of my Rosie getting sleepy.

 

Landon was so busy taking it all in… he was in heaven!  It was so neat to share that experience with the Fearing Family.

Jon took this picture of the PondFam5!

 

When we were going across this bridge, I kid you not, the train kept leaning from one side to the other and back again.  We were holding the girls and Anna Kate started to panic… but just like that it was over.  Mike and I were looking at each other like, “Is this supposed to be happening?”  Added some excitement to the ride, for sure!

 

Rose saw something out her window and was saying, “Oh!”

I had to get a picture with the birthday boy!  He’s so special to us!

Noelle kept kissing Anna Kate from behind her hat!

They thought that was so funny!

Here’s Landon’s little brother, baby Logan!  He is the most perfect baby and couldn’t be any sweeter.  It was so fun to spend the day loving on him too!

 

Here’s Noelle and Landon saying goodbye, and Logan getting kisses from his Aunt Missi.

We’ll be talking about Landon’s train party for years to come!  It was such a fun experience and memory to share!  Happy 3rd Birthday, Landon!  We love you!