Church Picnic

Checking out the semi in the church parking lot.  

The kids each took turns honking the horn.  Simeon loved it!

Also this year were visits from the Lutheran Church Charities Comfort Dogs, a  couple of area mascots and past and present preschool families. 

New Playground

3rd Grade and Kindergarten!

Tornado Warning

It was the night before the first day of school....

and we're all downstairs reading books instead of going to bed until the tornado warning clears.

Mini Golf before school starts

 

Summer Reading Club Finale

Home by Dreamworks as interpreted by....US

Illinois Railway Museum in Union, IL

Playing while Daddy checks on the train schedule. 

Waiting for the train in the refurbished station.

The Illinois Railway Museum in Union, IL has been our must-do with the kids list for quite awhile.  It is the largest train museum in the country and just about an hour drive for us.  We went on a Monday and there were very few people there.  We had beautiful sunny weather and got our exercise walking through the various buildings.  It was a fun way to spend a family day before school started.

 

Thomas and Chuggington train tables to play with on a sunny day.

 

We rode this street car which was in service from the 1920's until the 1940's. 

 

We found a patch of this train to add to Simeon's backpack.

Simeon is behind the A in Chicago holding the stick.