After-Christmas Fun

Since Will and Abby were still out of school for the holidays, Ralph and I and Beth took them to the Atlanta Botanical Garden to see the trains a couple of days after Christmas. We have a yearly membership there and take the kids fairly often, but they never seem to grow tired of it. The Botanical garden is great about having a variety of things going on. The Moore exhibit is still there, but they also added the train show for during the holidays. They have a train like this one above the kids can ride, as well as the model trains in the orchid house. Will is quite the "train buff", but they BOTH enjoyed it thoroughly.

There were beautiful poinsettias everywhere!

And here are the model trains!

Then, on New Year's Eve, we had Evan and Pressley with us while their Mommy and Daddy went to the Chick fil A Bowl with some friends. Poppy and Evan built this bird out of K'Nex. Evan was very proud of it!

Then, the two of them went to Sam's and bought this huge box of Tinker-toys. Ralph always enjoyed tinker-toys when he was a boy, so he thought our grandsons would enjoy them, too. He was right! Evan really got into it! The set has 225 pieces!

In this picture, they were watching "The 3 Stooges". Evan and Poppy thought it was really funny, but Pressley wasn't so sure! As you might imagine, though, Poppy was VERY happy having his "angels" in his lap! They are all such blessings!