hesston steam museum

don't rightly know why this place is called a museum... it's like an old train yard that you can climb around on and explore but it also has three running trains- big, medium, and small. they are all actual scale replicas of different steam locomotives. we took a trip on the big and medium. next time is "little one or bust" as corey said!

we visited here a couple years ago with james and baby sean around halloween for the "haunted" train ride and had a blast, so we thought we'd try it again now that seanny is so into trains. i hope this doesn't mean he'll be hitting the transformer stage, too, in a couple more years...

we were lucky enough to have the other cressys in tow as well as big cousin, william, to help out!

choo choo.

shake it like a polaroid pict-shaw!

we had such a lovely day after so many bad ones that corey took an afternoon off and we all headed up to cherry beach. these pix were taken with corey's i-phone using an app called shake-it photo in which you actually shake the phone after snapping a pic to develop an old polaroid looking picture. i'm officially obsessed. thanks, arvin, for the tip!

first day of school!

the boys had their first day of school! they are now in the same class at montessori. it was an awful rainy start to such an exciting day, but things went off without a hitch! the sky cleared up, too, which made for fun times celebrating after their first day at knollwood pool!

curious kids

erin and i took the kids up to st. joe for a day's outing to curious kids museum. fun was had by all. we even got to learn a bit about pets you wouldn't want to hug... or was it pets that are hard to love? ironically enough the first one we saw was a cicada-killer! i explained to the guy that we had our own hummingbird size waspy things in our driveway back at home if he needed more samples...

august-us

here are some family pix from the month of august...