Jade-O Potat-O

I was looking through my photos, and noticed a slight trend. It seems that I am making more photos of things. I mean landscapes, macro, etc. When I first started, it was all about Clayton, and from there my photography morphed. I really began to want to take nice photos of family and friends (now I don't care who it is). That is where I left off for a very long time. Not long ago I found a love for landscape photography, so I began to experiment, branch out.

I guess it is time to go back to the roots, to what first got me picking up the camera over and over again.

A couple of weeks back, we went to the Union Station at Ogden (I know three times in a row now). Papa wanted to see the cars and trains. Clayton loves both of those so we thought it would be fun to go. Last minute we had an unexpected surprise, Lynn was coming too. OK so we all know we don't care a Nat's eyelash about Lynn, but he brought his little girl Jade (or like we all like to say, Jade-O potato).

Clayton hasn't gotten to know his cousin that well. I remember for Christmas I was putting photo-books together for the Grandparents of the Grand kids. I looked through the millions of photos I had captured, and found I did not have one single photo of Jade.



Well it is about time that I get a few photos of Jade!

There are so many fun things to do at the Union station for these little people (I think Clayton's favorite was actually the model trains inside). We could mostly just relax and let them do their thing.



They liked the fountain too.



At first Jade wasn't sure about me (being a near stranger to her, though I am her only bald uncle, and the funnest guy she will probably ever know). She eventually warmed up to me...





Jade, glad to get to see you. Clayton had a blast, and we can't wait to do it again. Clayton will never get bored of the train station!

Ogden Union station

Again trying to catch up on events. Again I am amazed at how much cool stuff there is to do and see in Ogden...

Clayton was in second heaven when we stopped for a visit at the Ogden Union station (he is a huge Thomas the Train fanatic). There is only one thing he likes better than airplanes and that is trains. These trains are large and at first Clayton was a bit intimidated by the sheer size of these engines.



At the station there is a museum (we didn't go in as it was closed) but outside there are a half dozen engines that you can touch, climb on, and well get up close and personal with. These things are sooo cool!



Look how small Clayton is compared to the engines. Even Anji looks like a mini person.



The coolest train was the steamy (as Clayton would say). Look at the detail in the iron work...



When Dani and Jason visit from Colorado, Clayton will be so excited to show his cool older cousins the train museum. His bigger cousin Jackson is probably more of a train fanatic than Clayton is (if that is possible)?