Fun in San Antonio

We had so much fun last weekend with Belle in San Antonio! We went shopping (of course) and to the river walk and to a Texas basketball game. We stayed in a nice hotel that we wanted to move into! The weather was amazing and Belle had fun the entire time. She LOVED the basketball game and was the cutest little cheerleader.

Happy Birthday Blake!!!

Blake had so much fun today opening his presents and playing with his new toys:) But I think the best part of his day was when he got to eat his birthday cake! It was so much fun watching him dig in and enjoy it. He is just getting so big I can't believe it!

Yesterday Belle learned how to climb in and out of her bed... yikes!!!! The only problem is that she gets out the same way, and its not very padded on the way out:( She is a nut!

Okay the pressure is on... only 3 more weeks until Belle is due for her 18 month pictures and I must be a professional photographer by then so I don't have to pay $1 million to have them taken. Think I can do it? Well, I guess that's probably not being realistic but I am hoping to someday be able to do it all myself! I do think that putting on a pretty dress that she doesn't normally wear makes it look almost professional! Why did I not do this before??!! Slap on a fancy outfit and mail it out on the christmas cards and it definitely looks professional:)

Angel

Wow, the sun in this photo was just right and Belle was actually sitting still for a while and I got a really good shot.

Christmas Time is Here!!

We had so much fun with K, K, G and C this last week! On Monday night we went to look at lights in the park and even though it was freezing we still had lots of fun! Christmas morning was great (even though Belle didn't react the way we had thought she would) and the girls got tons of fun things. Belle, was kind of emotional (surpirse!) and was tired so we had to take am million pictures to get some of her smiling:) As you can see, there wasn't much we could do to make her frown go away... but her little friend Elmo didn't have to try very hard and he got not only a smile but a laugh! It was so much fun and we really are looking forward to more years to come like this one.











P.S. Thanks K and K for having us up and we are excited to see ya'll soon!

This picture has a funny story. I probably took 250 pictures and got maybe 5 shots that are usable. Belle would not sit in the chair for anything so Blake was having to give her choloate kisses to make her. By the time I got to this shot she had had a couple pieces and had chocolate on her mouth! I had to go back and photoshop the chocolate off of her lips because otherwise it was the perfect picture!

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!