Merry Christmas!

To those of you who's address we do not have, we hope you have a very Merry Christmas!

Jan-Kay Ranch

We brought the youth group to Jan-Kay Ranch this weekend for a retreat and had so much fun! There were all kinds of animals, a pond for canoeing, trails and lots more fun things to do. Belle had a blast and litterally ran all day long. It was pretty much her dream life... 90 people to pay attention to her (and they all do), nice weather to play outside all day and lots of weird animals. I think she would have been happier if we would have just left her there to live with the tigers!

Yes, that is a real bear and yes he was that close! Belle was just staring and he stood all the way up super tall but when he came back down and started walking her direction she turned around and ran! Smart girl:)

The ostrich was so crazy and started doing this weird dance when we came up to his cage. Blake says he was trying to scare him away... I think he was doing his mating dance for Blake, haha!

We had some fun in the leaves today... can you believe its December and just now the leaves are falling??!! Anyway, for this shot, Blake got up into the tree and took a bunch of pictures... ah the things we do for a good pic!

"DANTA DANTA!" Belle loves santa and did so good when we went to see him! She didn't smile much but she didn't cry either! Everywhere we go now she find him and yells his name... Hopefully he brings her something fun for being so nice!

Belle is such a good little mama. She is learning how to feed her baby and hug and kiss it. We still have some work to do though since she thinks its ok to throw her baby down and yell "no" when she gets mad!

I'm a rebel

Yep, I finally got my camera and I love it!!!! I think I took about 350 pictures in a 4 hour time period and pretty much every picture turned out. I am so excited to be able to take beautiful pictures every day:) I especially love being able to do extreme close-ups without all the blur.

I am an "ETSYer"

I recently opened a store on ETSY, where I can sell the stuff that I like to make! It is so much fun and very addicting (as Blake will attest too). I sell jewelry, ornaments, prints and soon I will be selling pretty rose jars (you will get some mom). Wish me luck!
autumnleah.etsy.com

We had Belles pictures taken at at this really pretty park and the photographer did a really beautiful job! I just can't stop looking at them they are so pretty!