Thomas and the Czech Festival

We had a very busy and fun day. This morning we went to a Czech festival and watched a local parade and ate kolaches. Afterward we visited with my mom for awhile and then showed off our new house to aunt Amy and the cousins. While the boys napped we drove to a friend's house and got some free tickets to see the Thomas the Train show. We had a fun time riding the train and playing with all of the toys and such at the show. Both boys still seem to be feeling under the weather and nearly every picture I took of them looks like they are terrified of the train, but I know they both had a good time. Jackson did NOT want to leave. He was playing with a train set just before we left and it reminded me of the first time Lincoln played with a train set at the McKasson's house. He wouldn't eat dinner and then when it was time we had to DRAG him away. Now Jackson is the same way. It will be great to have a place to set up their train set again in just a few weeks. Although neither of them care so much specifically about THOMAS, they both love trains. Every car type thing that Jackson plays with he calls a choo choo.


HORSE UPDATE:

The horse hung around here all week and Papa called his usual large stray animal guy to come out and get him. The guy said he's picked up this particular horse before and knows that the owner won't pay to get him back, so he won't come and get him. We called some friends from the ward that have horses and they came and got her this morning. Crazy! We sure enjoyed having her around this week.

Stray Horse

We had an eventful afternoon. Jade was over with us and saw this horse out the window and asked, does your neighbor have a horse? My reply was, "yes, and a llama and a ram and a pony right now... why do you ask?"

"No, not that neighbor, the one on the other side."

That made me look because you can't see neighbors on the other side. Sure enough, there was a horse out on the property down by the pond. I assumed it was the neighbor's horse that had gotten out, but when I went to tell him about it, there was his horse in his usual spot by the fence!

We still don't know who it belongs to or where it came from. She is very gentle and let us come up to her. She has a hurt foot and we wanted to make sure she got back home so we went to a neighboring farm where they have several horses to see if she belonged there. No one was home, so we tried to come home and borrow a harness from the neighbors so that we could keep her in his pasture, but she was gone when we got back. I hope she finds her way home!

How many of you have ever had a stray horse turn up in your backyard?