Christian's birthday party and 4th of July celebration!

Saturday, we drove to Van Buren to start our big day of celebrating Christian's birthday with family. Our first stop was the Van Buren train station. Jim, Christian and Pops had first class tickets to ride the train! Christian was SO excited!

All Aboard!!

Even though it was a rainy day, Christian was happy to be riding the train. He actually LOVES rain and thunderstorms.

They enjoyed lunch during their ride!

Christian and Pops looking out the window of the train. So much to see!

Jim said the conductor was a lot of fun! He told about things they saw during the ride and told funny stories too!

Christian and Pops stood on the back of the train during the return trip to Van Buren. Pops said Christian loved it!


What a fun time!

After the train ride, we were suppose to go swimming, but it was still raining. So Christian told us all about the train ride until it was time to open presents. ;)

Present time!
(Can you see Andrew in the back trying to help out too?)

Christian got lots of great gifts...water guns, books, golf clubs and TRAIN STUFF!

Andrew was wore out from it all and found this open box to sit in and suck his fingers. ;)

After presents, we had chicken for dinner (requested from Christian--check out his "plans" in the blog post below). After dinner,we enjoyed a wonderful train cake!

Christian loved his train cake!

GoGo even set the table with train plates and napkins

Happy 6th Birthday Christian!!!

After the party, presents and dinner, Andrew was ready to go to bed. So I put him in his red, white and blue jammies.


That evening, we visited with family and watched the Van Buren fireworks from the bluff.
So fun!

Thanks Pops and GoGo for hosting Christian's big birthday celebration and thanks to all of our family who was there to celebrate!

Happy 4th of July!