Hello Out There!

Hello hello! The weather is cool and grey today. Aurora's birthday was beautiful. It was a warm sunny day and we drove out to Salisbury to go see Thomas the Tank Engine at the Transportation museum (Mark had taken the day off work. The museum is so cool. It's an actual train yard, with a roundhouse and different engines from the past 150 years. Grampa Toth would love it. One of the best parts is that it's free, unless you buy concessions or ride the Thomas train or the cool "caboose train" they have there. The caboose train has 1 engine and 5 or 6 cabooses. It looked cool. As the whole thing is pretty much outdoor, they don't complain if you bring your own food, so after we walked around everything and let the kids play (it was a carnival-type atmosphere), we sat down in the shade and had a nice picnic lunch. Aurora fell asleep on the way home, but was awake for the ham dinner and ice cream cake we had to celebrate that evening. She was so excited about the cake, she said, "Time to sing Happy Birthday to me!" It was cute.
The big downer was that once again we missed conference. It isn't broadcast on the regular (free) TV stations or radio stations here, we don't have the gas to get to our stake center (and the kids would probably go berserk anyways, 4 hours is a tall order for kids as young as this to hold still), and unfortunately we weren't able to afford cable or satellite to be able to watch it at home. Thankfully though, Mom and Dadgave us a subscription to the Church magazines last Christmas and we'll be able to read the messages soon.
Mark started his Pit classes yesterday and he is very excited about learning pit crew stuff. There are 45 days and counting till we fly to Salt Lake! We have a little chart and the kids get to pick a color for each day. It's fun.

Live, Laugh , Love!