Friday, December 23, 2016

On Friday, Chase had two adventures: going to the Train House and having Jackson come over to his house in the evening for a combination celebration in honor of Chase's birthday and Christmas. Chase and Nanaw planned to go to the 10:30 a.m. Creation Station session at the Train House but it was sold out. So they decided to just watch the train display instead of going to the Creation Station. But first, they went in to say hello to Miss Linda. She was very happy to see them and thanked Nanaw for her holiday card and the picture of Chase. Miss Linda told Nanaw that she'd sent a card to her and wrote her a message so Nanaw is looking forward to getting that. While Chase and Nanaw were watching the trains, one of the train engineer volunteers took them "behind the scenes" to see how the trains work. Chase was very excited about that and got to see lots of trains and controls. On the way home, Chase and Nanaw took a detour to Baptist Church Road to see an outdoor Bumble decoration that a friend of Nanaw's told her about. In the evening, Nanaw joined Chase, Mama, Daddy, Jackson, Aunt Jen and Uncle Joe for the combination birthday / Christmas celebration. Mama fixed chicken in the crockpot, and Chase had a wonderful hockey Blues birthday cake. Nanaw played downstairs with the boys, and Aunt Jen put together downstairs the Star Wars tent that Uncle Will-Bill gave Chase for his birthday. Everybody had a wonderful time.