Duluth with the Gerk's 2

 Here's our little family in front of one of the many steam engines (including one just like the Polar Express engine from the movie).

 And here's Tate telling Santa he wants something that he hadn't told any of us to that point, throwing a curveball to our Christmas shopping list. Ice skates. Kids, I tell ya.

And here we are with some of our favorite people and the reason we drove to Duluth in the first place: the Reverend and Mrs. Aaron Gehrke (isn't that how you refer to pastor's families?), and their not-bratty-at-all pastor's kid Hazel. We kinda like babies, especially when we like their parents, too.
(Not pictured: the game we invented at the hotel while the kids were sleeping, Playdough Wars, which is the best game ever.)