Choo-Choo...

 Lucas is the first of our children to be choo-choo crazy. He plays with our Duplo train set for hours on his own, requests his choo-choo undies everyday, and carries around all the train books we own like his life depends on them. Since we've been enjoying such beautiful weather lately we decided to take advantage of a gorgeous Saturday afternoon and hike along some abandoned tracks through the farmland near our house. I had noticed an old abandoned station a few months ago while driving to visit a friend and assumed that the tracks were unused, so we set off to see what we could find. We had so much fun, we returned on Monday with an even grander plan to park a car 2 miles down the tracks and hike from one car to the next...(Thanks to my friend Bethany for being such a great sport about that wild adventure!)