Polar Express!

We have an annual tradition of meeting the Brown family in French Lick to celebrate the holidays and go on the "Polar Express." We stay at the fabulous French Lick Springs hotel and enjoy all of the amenities that are available there. This year, for a whole host of reasons, we arranged to have our Polar Express experience on New Year's Day, so right after the babies were born, our family took off for French Lick in southern Indiana. 

Love the Christmas decorations and the two girls in French Lick

At the beginning of the experience with Moira and Hannah

The Brown family: Katie, Marty, Connor, Hunter, and Ryder

All the kiddos waiting for the festivities to start
Every year we have a great time on the train--they read the Polar Express aloud, and a cast of characters including a conductor, Santa Claus, and elves keep us entertained with singing, dancing, hot chocolate, and cookies while we take our ride to the North Pole and back.

Our little family

Santa and the girls

Red noses for Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

At the end with the elves
After our Polar Express adventure, we went to bed and awoke the next morning and had fun at breakfast and swimming in their fantastic pool before heading home to Indy to visit the babies.

Breakfast of campions

Swimming!

Swimming!

Cousins having fun together after at dinner after their parents saw the babies

Katie reading at home to the kids before bed
We had a great time with the Browns and were excited that they came home to Indy with us and had the extra benefit of meeting the newest additions to the family--Gus and Cecilia.

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