Halloween Candy

Sofia is a little stinker, spend a little time with her when her big sister is not around and she will have you laughing to tears.  These are a few photos of her expressions with candy that she was given as an experiment to see her expression (by me of course) or some she found.  enjoy.

I gave Sofia a lemon sour patch kid to see what she would do.  This is right after I gave it to her. 

This is when it took full affect, if you think I was being mean she loves them now, but fortunately there was not very many.

Cassie had to change Olivia and while she was distracted Sofia got ahold of some skittles and stuffed her cheeks full.  She's a little poo, but she entertains us. 

Retro Intro #2

Well this is the next intro I will post from my childhood. I remember watching this show religiously......it is not as good as I remember it.

Snow Day

Well as most of you know we got a light dusting of snow yesterday.  Chloe woke up before Cassie and I because we wanted to sleep in due to Sofie having a little cold.  She was up for a healthy chunk of the night and Olivia did her usual routine as well.  I was awoken from noises coming from the girls room, Chloe was standing there with nothing on but a pull-up and snow boots, boy was she ready to go out and play.

Chloe in the snow after I made her put on the proper attire

Sofia watching from the warmth of the house because she has the perpetual runny nose plague

Two weeks old

I can't believe two weeks have already gone by. She 

is actually a great baby only wakes up once or twice

during the night. She has to be held all the time. I try

laying her down when she is asleep but minutes later she

wakes up and wants to be held while she is sleeping.

NMRA Show

Cassie gets angry at me cause I don't let many people know about some of my hobbies, it is just the way I am and I try not to impose myself on to others.  But due to pressure from Cassie and some guy's that I know, I entered two of my structures into a judged and popular vote competition.  Cassie can tell you how I couldn't sleep and was very worried about the whole thing.  But I ended up doing okay and this is how I faired.

Newton County Co-op:

2nd in judged portion

1st in popular vote

M.S.Butler Farmers Supply:

1st in judged portion

Best of show in judged portion

2nd in popular vote

More detailed photos and shots of them being built are on my separate blog, a link is in my blog list under rotating coupler.

Well she finally came.

So I would like to introduce the new addition to our clan.  Her name is Olivia Ann Brimley (what else would her last name be).  She was born at 16:40, weighs 7.7 lb. and is 20 in. long or tall or short. . . . . whatever.   For Cassie's sake it was the fastest labor yet, just 8 hours and then  she only pushed 3 times.  Both are doing very well, everything went smooth, there was only a few little hiccups is all.  Oh I am doing fine as well just so everybody knows, it's hard work sitting in that chair, not doing anything productive.  Olivia has a bit of what the nurse's call "Stork Bite" on her face, it has some technical name but who cares about that.  It will clear up in a few days so it not that big of a deal.  They should both be home on Thursday and thats when the real fun begins.

Frontrunner Daddy Daughter Trip

Yesterday I took Chloe out on a little Daddy Daughter Day to give Cassie a break for a bit.  We drove up to Salt Lake Central Station and rode Frontrunner to Ogden.  In Ogden we spent about a hour walking around historic Ogden Union Station.  They have a couple of museums there, but we just looked at the old locomotives and rail cars outside.  Then we rode the train back to Salt Lake and walked around the Gateway, then drove home.  

I knew Chloe would have fun, but I didn't think she would have as much fun as she did.  When we came home she couldn't stop talking to Sofia about the whole adventure.  She then made her own train out of chairs so Sofia could ride along.  Chloe wants to go ride the train again right NOW.  

Chloe standing in front of the Frontrunner #2 MP36 diesel electric built by Motive Power inc.  

These are the Bombardier bi-level cars that we rode to Ogden and back in.

I stuck Chloe on the front of this old 0-6-0 yard goat steam engine at Ogden Union Station.

These big guys used to be fenced off but now you can go right up to them.  The purple thing on the right was a special car build by Union Pacific for the 2002 Olympic Torch relay.  The yellow loco in the center is a massive DDA40X built in 1969.  The steam engine on the left is a 4-8-4 wheel configuration, it's sister engine is still being used today.

Chloe standing by one of the main drivers on the 4-8-4 #833.

You don't realize how big these are until you are right next to it.

Standing between the beastie creatures. 

An old Rio Grande caboose that Chloe liked playing on.

This is the train that Chloe built after we came home.