Fun, Fish, Trains

Enjoying her first real train ride last weekend.

The fall festivities continue around here! Last weekend was nice and chill compared to what I am expecting the next few days. Lots of Halloween madness fun, dress up and trick or treating. But since it's so easy to get backed up, I will flashback to last weekend first. So many pics to post and stories to tell!

Fun shot in her Gap outfit that I was all excited to submit to their model contest...only to find out I was a day too late and it's now closed! Boo-hoo. Fame will have to come another day, Ruby Kate.

The whole family went to watch Ryan play soccer. (Cutie pie with the red hair)

The little miss enjoyed being a spectator. 

Ryan contemplating his next moves. He was so darn cute out there.

Stopped off at a local festival at our grocery store to benefit breast cancer on the way home. Ruby loved the clown and wanted her face painted as one, too.

Won a gold fish that is now our burden pride and joy. We call him pumpkin since it's the only name we suggested that Ruby seemed to like, but really she just calls him FISH. Enjoys feeding him every day and loves that she now has "a goldfish like Elmo". Too cute even if the little bugger has to have his aquarium cleaned out twice weekly. Just hoping he lives a good long life (or that we find some identical replacements) if the tide turns for the worst. Not ready for Ruby to experience that loss yet so if it happens Jeff & I are prepared to keep buying her new fish. What I'm saying here is...pray for Pumpkin's long life! :-)

Next we took Ruby to see a real train at New Hope & Ivyland Rail Road. New Hope is such a great town with lots of history and shops and restaurants. We just love it! Click on the pic to see what it's all about. First we did the train ride and it did not disappoint. Ruby LOVES trains and has no idea that Santa already picked her up a Thomas the Train set for Christmas morning! We can hardly wait to see her face when she sees it!

Big girl hanging out with Daddy on the train car. Bummer I caught her blinking but I posted it none the less cause it's her and her Daddy sitting in the elegant train car. We sat in first class by accident (whoops!) cause we wanted a beer apple juice. Ok, well, Ruby did actually have an apple juice. Anyway, we didn't realize the area with food and drinks was not the beverage car but actually the high priced ticket seats. Having realized that we realized this too late, the nice conductor let us slide so we got to ride in style for no extra cost! So nice!

Mommy and Ruby enjoying the ride through the country and beautiful view.

Happy girl was such an angel on the 45 minute train ride that we gave her a lolli. Loves trains AND lollies so I'd say it was a pretty 5 star day for miss Rubes!

Ended the day with a 5 star style dinner at a place called Martines. I was SO craving a dinner not involving a kids menu and a set of crayons. It was a bold move but worked out great. Ruby doesn't mind dining out and I must say she is a pretty patient toddler. I also saw the butternut squash soup on the menu and knew we'd both love it. She was great at dinner. Ate her soup and bread while we enjoyed some wine and great dinner. A fabulous day and we all slept like rocks.