recent adventures

since moving here a couple months ago, we've done some exploring...

enterTRAINment junction in west chester, oh:

a HUGE model train exhibit and museum

fun kids area w/ playground, rides, and little theater area w/ non-stop thomas episodes

a hand-crank powered train ride that calvin loved!

they were doing "everything thomas" when we went, so calvin got to ride thomas (his favorite) as well.

shoveling coal w/ dad

we also took a trip to kirtland for a couple days before russell started school:

we had a nice tour of historic kirtland from some delightful sister missionaries

it was cool to see the temple too

we drove up to see lake erie before we left the area - it was huge!

mason did some snoozing,

while russell and calvin skipped rocks on the beach

we house-sat for our bishop and got to take advantage of their beach access to lake waynoka:

a couple weeks ago, we took a temple trip w/ some friends. the louisville, kentucky temple is a mini-temple, but still gorgeous. calvin cried when we left because he wanted to go in...

after the temple, we took the tour at the louisville slugger factory and museum w/ our friends, the schenks...

our little baseball fanatic and his daddy hugged the big bat when we got there

calvin got in lots of practice in the batting cage before our tour started

we saw how they make the bats and then checked out some cool artifacts in the museum. here's mason (my babe) next to THE babe's bat - you can't see it in the picture, but the bat is cracked...

calvin and russell holding a mickey mantle bat. this was probably russell's favorite - he saved his gloves! (sorry for the bad lighting)

calvin and his friend sarah (and russell in the rear) crawling in the big baseball mitt

we got souvenir mini bats

he couldn't bear to put it down!