Salerno Visit, Day 1

 Cole was playing with his Christmas present from Grandpa and Grandma and Uncle Chris on Friday a lot.

 We did a gift exchange since we will not see them for Christmas.  Cole really liked all of his gifts!

 Especially the turtle.

 Saturday we went to Hugh and Virginia Keen's house and checked out the most phenomenal train layout we have ever seen.

 Worlds smallest sawmill:).

 The forklift really works.  Awesome.

 This is old hat to Kolbi since it's her grandpa's layout, but she is still very interested.

 The trains that run under the layout.  Yes, track under the layout, complete with relay cabinet and wiring everywhere!  It was incredible!  Engineers can definitely appreciate it!

 Control panel.  I am scared just looking at it.

These do not do it justice.  Maybe the last one, but you still cannot tell how complex and awesome it is.  We had to drag Cole away.  The only think making him ok with leaving was the fact that he was starving.

Krispy Kreme MOPS Playdate

 Today we had a MOPS playdate and we took the kids on a tour through Krispy Kreme to see how donuts are made.  Jackson was ready to go!

 Waiting for the tour to start.  We had to wear the hats.  All of us.  Needless to say there are no pictures of us women...we probably wouldn't like that.

 Finished products.

 Looking at yeast.

 Touching dough.

 Watching how they rise in the oven.  I did not pick out Cole's shoes.

 Donuts just after being cooked in a vat of vegetable oil.  But just before going through the waterfall of icing (glaze)

 Getting ready to decorate their own donuts.

 This impressed me.  I really thought they'd just let the kids have a glaze donut each, but they gave them glazed dipped in chocolate and let them decorate.  I thought that was kind of neat.

 The way Cole's mind works just completely fascinates me.  He is a problem solver.  Instead of decorating his donut he thought the purpose of the sprinkles was to get them in the donut hole.

 He only took about 3 bites.  I don't think he liked the chocolate which is weird because he loves chocolate, but that is what he told me...

Look at those eye lashes and eyes.  Amazing.