Polar Express Party

ALL ABOARD...

This year has been all about trains. Big trains, little trains, real trains, toy trains, trains, trains and more trains. Dylan is what one might call OBSESSED. A couple years ago it was firetrucks, last year was race cars... this year it's trains (with Spiderman coming in a close second). Dawson has jumped on the bandwagon (or should I say caboose) too, so you can guess what Santa is bringing for Christmas! That's right folks, a train table! It should provide hours of fun, and a just a few fights I'm sure.

Since kids are always antsy and have the most trouble being good on Christmas Eve, I thought why not think of something to keep them occupied for the day. So, we're going to have a "Polar Express Party". We already have the movie, and the book is a Christmas Eve present so in the morning the will get invitations and tickets to the days events... we'll play some train games, color some train pictures, write our letters to Santa and the piece de resistance?! We're going to have train car cake just like this one:

I found the cake pan locally at the Superstore, but I do know they also sell it at Williams Sonoma. I have a feeling it's going to be difficult to decorate but all the little individual cakes are SO cute!! I am also planning on making chocolate drizzled popcorn for the movie, it should be a good day!